EU Parliamentary leaders meet in Budapest to discuss future challenges
Parliamentary speaker László Kövér welcomed counterparts from European Union member states who will review challenges facing the EU at a conference in Budapest on Monday. EU Parliamentary leaders meeting in Budapest:
EU Parliamentary leaders in Budapest
The conference is the closing parliamentary event linked to last year’s Hungarian EU presidency. Kövér said that under the arrangements of parliamentary cooperation during the Hungarian presidency, Hungary had hosted over 1,000 participants at six conferences.
He welcomed around 300 participants from fifty delegations at Monday’s conference, including speakers and deputy speakers from member countries, candidate countries, leaders of delegations with observer status, and the delegation of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). “We want peace, democracy and prosperity in Europe,” he told the conference.
He said the EU had had no political power, and perhaps will, to prevent the Russia-Ukraine war with diplomatic means, and it had no economic power, either, to bridle Russia by way of sanctions. Economic statistics show that the EU sanctions had caused more damage to EU member states than to Russia, he added. “Despite all the failures, the current EU political elite tries to embroil the EU in war, even in a military sense,” Kövér said.
He added that the current EU political elite was also planning to violate the rules of internal EU democracy, change the order of decision making which requires unanimity, and open the way for the dictatorship of a narrow group that cites political majority but does not have a real mandate. The EU is in a losing position in all dimensions of a global process of rearrangement, and democratic election results from the recent period demonstrate that an increasing part of Europeans are directly affected, he said.
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