Speeches

We are committed to effectively protecting victims and promoting prevention measures, but these efforts can only be effective if the necessary measures are tailored to the socio-legal specificities of each Member State at national level. A unified, centralised approach ignores national, cultural and legal differences that are key to genuine assistance. We are concerned that the left is trying to include ideological elements in the resolution on several points, in particular gender ideology, and instead of strengthening support for victims, it would create a legal uncertainty. This is not in the interest of the victims. The issue of increasing rape in the context of mass illegal migration is a defining element of the decision, while it is not openly stated. Hungary must maintain a zero-tolerance policy towards illegal migration, public safety, social standards and the protection of women. Although there were a number of positive elements in the decision, I was unable to support it with my vote because of these aspects. The Patriots for Europe Group attaches importance to the protection of victims, which is why we tabled an alternative motion for a resolution that took a balanced position while effectively protecting victims and respecting the competences of the Member States. I voted in favour of the Patriot alternative resolution.

Mr President, EU interference in the domestic politics and elections of EU Member States is a massive scandal that elites in Brussels want to sweep under the rug. President von der Leyen has publicly admitted that the European Commission was incredibly strict with Prime Minister Orbán. The EUR 17 billion of EU funds that were frozen, she said, were huge for a country of such size. She also said that the impact was clearly visible in the deterioration of Hungary's competitiveness. Not only that, Hungary was also fined EUR 200 million plus EUR 1 million per day because we don't allow illegal immigrants into Hungary. The European Commission also activated its rapid response system to monitor the online activities and interfere in the election campaign. We know from the documents released through freedom of information requests in the United States ‑ which the Commission doesn't do ‑ that the Commission has in fact interfered and pressured tech companies to suppress conservative political speech in all European national elections since 2023. This is a major violation of the EU Treaties. President von der Leyen, as well as all Commissioners and staff involved, should be investigated and held accountable.

Dear colleague, you just spoke about 'happy ending' and 'the time is ticking'. Well, the person who was lecturing Hungary and many other countries – in fact, all of Europe – on rule of law, was from your political family: Didier Reynders, who is under investigation for corruption and money laundering. I think the EU and your party needs to do its own homework first. By the way, how is his case pending? When are we going to finally get a judgment there?

Dear Mr President, The European left-liberal politicians and media have lied, and many of you have said that there is no rule of law in Hungary, no democracy, no one else can win, no one else can win elections but Viktor Orbán and Fidesz, because this is the electoral system, and if someone else did win, the authoritarian regime would not hand over power. And we can still say how many vile lies have been told here about Hungary. After the April elections, it is obvious to the country and the world that Hungary is a democracy, where the will of the Hungarian electorate prevails. For sixteen years we had national, conservative and sovereignist governments because the Hungarian electorate chose to do so. It was a historic 16 years, which has now also come to an end by the will of the Hungarian electorate. We also draw the lessons from the election, but you must draw the same lessons. It wasn't just slander. The European Parliament has initiated Article 7 proceedings against Hungary for political reasons and lies. Section 7 proceedings must be closed immediately. The European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, withheld tens of billions of euros from Hungary for political blackmail. All frozen money will be immediately unblocked and transferred unconditionally to Hungary. The European Commission immediately revokes the fine of 200 million euros and 1 million euros per day imposed on Hungary. Hungary is a democracy, and you have lied.

Dear Mr President, EU enlargement is a historic success that the Grand Coalition led by the People's Party wants to destroy at all costs. They would break all the rules to take on Ukraine, a country at war with a nuclear power. This is what the Enlargement Report says, and I quote: “Accession is a key instrument to promote lasting peace, democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, regional reconciliation and stability.” This is the case, but instead of lasting peace, EU leaders refuse to engage in peace negotiations with Russia. The rule of law was violated by President Zelenskyy when he overturned the Association Agreement and blocked the oil pipeline to Hungary and Slovakia for political reasons. Fundamental rights are being violated on a massive scale by forced conscription. Instead of regional reconciliation, President Zelenskyy addressed a death threat to the Hungarian prime minister. Instead of stability, there is war, and that is why you want to take Ukraine as a priority. Many countries are much better prepared and have been waiting for EU accession for a long time. They, too, are being humiliated without hesitation by hiring Ukraine as a priority and without fulfilling the conditions. They are also not afraid of creating a direct war situation between the EU and Russia. Clause 42.7 of the treaties states: if a Member State is attacked, it must come to the aid of all Member States. We have to be clear: there is no exception, only a country that fully meets all the conditions and is unanimously supported by the Member States can join the EU.

Mr Gahler, as you have just said, you are a big supporter of Ukrainian membership, but they need to fulfil all the political criteria. Do you think it is acceptable for a country which wants to join the European Union that its president personally threatens the prime minister of an EU country? Do you agree that that is unacceptable? Can you call on Mr Zelenskyy to apologise and withdraw this threat?

Dear Mr President, The Tisza MPs are so deeply in President Zelensky's pocket that they have voted six times in two years in various resolutions to separate Hungary from cheap Russian energy sources. Most recently in this resolution, at the end of February, while Zelensky's energy blackmail was already clear to everyone. President Zelenskyy is lying about the state of the pipeline. If he hadn't lied, he wouldn't have refused to be examined by Hungarian, Slovak or EU experts. The yews are so deeply in Zelensky's pocket that despite the confirmation of István Kapitány from the energy sector and the confirmation of an expert in foreign affairs in the person of Anita Orbán, they did not stand up for Hungary's energy security with a single word or speak out against Zelensky's energy blackmail. Ukraine has contractually committed to the European Union not to endanger the energy security of any Member State. That's exactly what he's doing now. They are silent in Brussels. So much for the rule of law. Hungarians can only count on Fidesz. We're going to break down the energy blockade.

So, colleague, you've just said that we should be consistent. Well, you are not consistent, and the EPP is not consistent. You spoke about minority rights in Slovakia, but speaking is not enough. Just last year, in the 2025 human rights report, we had our colleague make an amendment to mention traditional national minorities and linguistic minorities, and the EPP and your left-wing coalition didn't even allow for an amendment vote to take place. Why?

Dear Madam President, The European Commission has consistently ignored the rights of national minorities for years and decades. This is what they do in the case of the Hungarians of Upper Hungary, the Hungarians of Transylvania and the Hungarians of Transcarpathia. Whether it's Beneš decrees, language use, schools or cultural institutions, or even deadly forced conscriptions in Ukraine. Fidesz-KDNP has always stood up for Hungarians beyond the borders. We have facilitated dual citizenship, we have continuously increased the financial support of Hungarian communities, and the national side has held since Prime Minister József Antall that the Hungarian government must take responsibility for every Hungarian living in the world. And what does the European Commission do about it? He applies the principle of collective guilt against Hungarians. Doesn't Ursula von der Leyen like to protect our children from extreme leftist gender ideology? He is suing Hungary at the European Court of Justice. Do you not like the fact that Hungarian universities decided on a new operating model? Hundreds of thousands of Hungarian students are collectively excluded from the Erasmus programme. What can they do, officer? Don't you like the fact that Hungarians don't want illegal immigrants? A fine of 200 million euros + 1 million euros per day will be imposed on Hungarians. Such is the collective punishment by the European Commission. And you want to teach me a lesson in human rights and the rule of law? Shame on you.

Madam President, Joe Biden and George Soros have orchestrated the largest immigration and border crisis in American history, and it should be a warning to all of us. The massive fraud, the failed integration and the violence are the consequence of the far-left, open-borders ideology of George Soros and the EU elites in Brussels have embraced the exact same borders policy. So who are we to tell Americans how to manage their illegal immigration problem? Do we have the best practices to share on deporting illegals or defending our borders? Have we successfully ridden our towns and our countries from migrant crime? Let's not kid ourselves, EU countries can barely deport a fraction of the illegals in Europe. The American left-wing political leaders provide safe haven to illegal criminal aliens, just like the European left. Hungary took the right decision ten years ago. We don't allow illegals into our country. They don't belong in Europe either.

Mr Member, you say that there is a campaign and that you have 105 Members. A lot of people were talking to them on the street. They're not responding. They always give everyone the same droid answer: to turn to the press department of the Tisza. Is this freedom of the press? I have a question, when are the candidates going to have a debate? I wanted to be on the BBC with one of them last week. They promised that there would be a debate, they fled from it. Why is that?

Mr Speaker, as you say, this is a Lithuanian sovereign matter. How they handle their own media doesn't have to be up to us. Yet it is sad that you come here and ask for the floor just to thrash your own country and give a lesson in freedom of speech and freedom of the media while your own party president, Péter Magyar, behaves aggressively and arrogantly towards the Hungarian, otherwise left-wing press. May I ask you, for example, what time is it, Marci? But that's not what I'm gonna ask. I would rather ask, why did Péter Magyar run away from the Hungarian farmers yesterday? (The Chair withdrew the floor)

Mr President, when it comes to migration policy, the European People's Party is so fake. We won't accept promises and half-measures. Despite the EU's objection, Hungary built a big, beautiful border fence to stop illegal migration. And it works. Later, others did the same. Why? Because Europeans have had enough of the migration madness. Stopping illegal entry is the first and most important task, but we need to do more – a lot more. Deportation of illegals is a massive failure. We need to remove all the illegals already in the EU. We need to impose visa sanctions and trade sanctions on countries that refuse to take back their citizens. Yes, that includes tariffs. We must also take a look at people who are here legally but commit serious crimes. We need to revoke their permits. All of this is common sense. So why isn't it happening? Because the European People's Party is too cowardly. We could have a majority to make Europe safe again, but instead the EPP chose to go with the Socialists and the Greens to push for a migration pact that will relocate illegals all across the EU instead of removing them. All this starts on 12 June of this year. The EPP's promises are empty words. Von der Leyen's Commission sued Hungary because we don't allow illegals into Hungary and Europe. We were fined EUR 1 million each and every day until we don't allow illegals into Europe. The EU's contribution to the Hungarian border fence defending the EU is zero. Europeans can only trust Patriots.

Madam President, I'm sorry. Once again, the left-liberal majority in the European Parliament cannot resist interfering in the Hungarian elections. But we know exactly what the game is about. They want to withhold Hungary's share of the new defence programme because they think that Hungarian voters can be bought, or at least blackmailed. You want a puppet government in Budapest, headed by Péter Magyar, who will say no to war credit, no to Ukraine's EU membership and no to the migration pact. Zoltán Tarr made it clear at a Tisa forum that if they win the election, then everything is possible. Four years ago, we promised that Hungary would not send arms or soldiers to Ukraine, and most of all, we will not allow Hungary to be dragged into this war. We kept our word. You are working in vain. The Hungarian people know perfectly well that this is about Hungary's security, and about staying out of this war, then only Fidesz-KDNP is the sure choice.

Because it's insane! I mean, there's not any kind of evidence suggesting that it's social media and the men responsible in Hungary for the fact that women should stay home. That's insane. As I said, if you look at the policy we have done, it's exactly the opposite, what we have done. So I would suggest to you, instead of turning men against women and women against men, we believe in a family policy approach where women and men form a family together and complement each other. That's what I suggest to you, and that's what I suggest to all Hungarian citizens.

You have obviously no information whatsoever about what we have done in the last 15 years. We – Fidesz and KDMP, the Christian Democrats – have put forward so many tax breaks to women and incentivised working women so much. If you look at women's employment rates, they have increased drastically since we're in government. That's the truth. That makes them more independent, doesn't it? Isn't that your argumentation? Well, this is exactly what we did. And we are cutting also their...

Mr President, this Christmas, Ursula von der Leyen got herself a brand new toolbox for censorship and manipulation. Thierry Breton, the Commissioner who tried to censor Elon Musk, is out, but we have two new censorship Commissars: Michael McGrath and Henna Virkkunen. They used the threat of foreign interference as a pretext. The new toolbox is called 'Democracy Shield' because it shields the EU against democracy – against you, dear European citizens. Instead of burning books, they are building a vast network of political NGOs who will be the European overlords of truth. This is also why the European Commission refuses to release the NGO grants worth EUR 17 billion over recent years. The US shut down USAID for this very reason. The Obama and Biden administrations – hand in hand with Soros, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Oak Foundation, and using NED, the German Marshall Fund, Transparency International, the Zinc Network, and Dexis, and many others – have established a network so corrupt it was impossible to reform or trace the funding. Now this network will rely on EU funding to keep it afloat ...

Madam President, I'm sorry. Jointly supporting the European defence industry is not a bad idea, but the Brussels elite managed to ruin it. The original aim was to give the defence industry easier access to EU money that was not originally intended for the defence industry in the EU budget. However, after a closed-door discussion, the EP's Committee on Industry had to vote on ensuring that the Ukrainian defence industry also had access to the funds that were otherwise intended to support the EU's defence industry. Eszter Lakos of Tisza voted for the support of Ukrainian armaments. At the same time, we have heard statements that the EU must take Ukraine into the EU in an accelerated procedure by 2030, and that it must also prepare for a war with Russia by 2030. A coincidence? Hardly. While the US is engaged in peace talks, you have turned a joint defence industrial programme into a war programme for Ukraine. We don't want any of this. European citizens want peace; instead of war plans, we should deal with peace plans.

Madam President, how much longer will the EU allow the persecution of Christians in Nigeria? Who will defend and support Christian communities if Europeans look away? The Hungarian Government launched a programme to help persecuted Christians in the Middle East and in Africa more than ten years ago. In Nigeria, our development projects amount to up to EUR 4 million. We have delivered help to the communities on the ground. The Hungary Helps programme has been very well received everywhere where it is present. As we speak, our colleague, MEP György Hölvényi, is on a similar mission in Syria. Communities on the ground are grateful, yet they are baffled by the fact that most Europeans are looking for excuses instead of speaking up for them and providing help. The new US administration is also finally calling on the Nigerian Government to defend the Christian communities and uphold freedom of religion. They are conducting high-level talks for this purpose. It is high time for European leaders to do the same.

Madam President, do Europeans want the relocation of illegal migrants to their countries? No. Does the European Commission want to relocate illegal migrants across Europe? Yes. We are just one step away from restoring the system of migrant relocation. A system that already failed miserably eight years ago. People want politicians who will stop illegal immigration, not manage it. Just a few minutes ago, we remembered the Islamist attacks in Paris, which claimed the lives of more than 130 people. They went through my country, the perpetrators. They went through your country, Commissioner. We built a fence and stopped illegal entry into Hungary, and then what happened? The European Commission sued Hungary and the court fined Hungary EUR 200 million and EUR 1 million per day until we change our laws, but we won't pay. Your country also built a fence, Commissioner. It gave it a funny name – 'gate with wings' – to avoid calling it a fence. Now, you invented another funny name for relocation: solidarity pool. You can't fool Europeans. They want to stop illegal immigration and they want reimmigration.

Mr President, where are the European peacemakers? Where are the leaders with the vision, with the courage, with the strength to restore peace in Europe? Where are they? The leaders of great European powers are weaker than ever before. Leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom have never been so unpopular. Or does anybody really think that Ursula von der Leyen could negotiate a lasting peace in Europe? I don't think so. It was more than three and a half years ago that Ursula von der Leyen and Joe Biden promised Ukraine victory, and they also promised that sanctions wouldn't impact our economies. How embarrassing. Or perhaps Kaja Kallas – does anyone think she would negotiate a lasting peace? We have recently learned she doesn't even know who won World War II. Thank God, we don't really have a European foreign minister. We have now adopted almost 20 sanctions packages, and the war is still raging. Since 2023, hundreds of thousands have died without a major military breakthrough. And yet, all we hear is 'more weapons', 'more money' and 'more sanctions'. Elites in Brussels mock and sabotage peace efforts. However, our most important ally, the United States, is finally pursuing peace negotiations. So is Prime Minister Orbán. But the majority of the European Parliament refuses diplomacy. You have failed Europeans miserably, and eventually others will decide about the future of our continent. Europeans, Ukrainians and Russians are all losers of this war; the sooner we end it, the better. We need to make Europe great again. Let's start by restoring peace in Europe.

Mr President, we don't need fancy new strategies and even more bureaucracy to defend Europeans against crime. The European internal security strategy is nothing more than an attempt by Ursula von der Leyen to gaslight European citizens. We could immediately halve violent crime in Europe by kicking illegal immigrants out. It would also almost entirely eradicate terrorism in the European Union. We need to let police and border guards do their jobs, but most leaders won't. That's why we have migrant youth in Belgium plotting to bomb the prime minister with drones. That's why a football match between Belgium and Israel had to be organised in Hungary. And that's why we have migrant gangs fighting turf wars with Kalashnikovs in the Brussels metro. This is the security situation in what many call 'the heart of the European Union', and this very House refused to waive the immunity of a violent Antifa member. Instead of defending our borders, returning illegals and locking up criminals, the European Commission is doing the exact opposite. The EU migration pact will relocate migrants across the EU and it will only make things worse.

Mr. President, please. From time to time, the EU is threatening to sue big digital companies, now Google, formerly Apple, Microsoft or Intel. The EU sees them as a kind of milking cow, and sometimes it destroys a billion euros from them. At other times, the Commissioner in charge openly threatens social media platforms to censor content and accounts that the EU does not like. We all remember the blunder when Commissioner Thierry Breton tried to prevent Elon Musk from interviewing Donald Trump during the presidential election campaign. Penalties and threats do not change the point. The EU is increasingly lagging behind in global technological and digital competition. Just to say a few numbers: Only four of the world's top 50 tech companies are European. The share of European tech companies in the global market has fallen from 22 percent to 18 percent in ten years. The U.S. share increased from 30 percent to 38 percent. The US-China AI competition is also remotely viewed by Europe. If the European Commission thinks that penalties can compensate for the digital backlog, it is wrong. Eliminate excessive bureaucracy and big data rules and implement a comprehensive strategy to support innovation. So far, the Von der Leyen Commission has failed on all strategic issues, including this one, which is why change is needed in Brussels.