Don’t be afraid! PM Orbán’s delegation promised to fight “against Brussels” in the EU Parliament
In the next plenary season of the European Parliament, the delegation of ruling Fidesz will work to strengthen the European and Hungarian economies, pursue a pro-peace and anti-migration policy, keep agricultural subsidies at the current level, and push back against “pressure from Brussels”, MEP Csaba Dömötör told a press conference on Friday.
Dömötör said the “elite of the European People’s Party and the left-wing” could not withhold the monies Hungary was entitled to, and “cannot turn down the volume of the voices it doesn’t like, neither on Facebook nor in the European Parliament“.
The “Brussels elite” was looking to take on the baton from the “failed US Democrat administration”, as shown in the coalition of the Liberals, the Socialists and the EPP, Dömötör said: “They are not looking for the flame of peace but for the baton of war politics”.
The Fidesz delegation, meanwhile, is working to become the voice of those who “want peace in the clamour of war, an independent European economy, who would preserve the appeal of rural life and reject migration”, Dömötör said.
Pro-peace policies and level energy prices are key to maintaining an upward trajectory of the Hungarian economy, he said. The protection against migration must be kept in place, and agricultural subsidies at a current level, he said.
The EP stance that all member states should earmark 0.25 percent of their GDP to the military support of Ukraine would cost hundreds of billions for Hungary, he said.
He said that debates were also expected over farm subsidies, and that the EC wanted to cut area payments saying that Ukraine’s EU accession would render the system non-viable. This would harm the income of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian farmers, and “must be prevented at all cost”, he said.
“The liberal Brussels elite feels that these plans have no public support, and they are trying to silence opposing voices,” Dömötör said. That goal had been behind the withholding of funds from Hungary, the Commission seats being withheld from the Patriots for Europe party family, and the aim to strengthen a fact-checking system that Facebook had just scrapped in the US as a tool of political censorship, he said.
Slamming the opposition Tisza party, Dömötör said they had “fully integrated into the pact-elite”. Tisza had voted against amendments that would have strengthened border protection, argued against the utility caps, “and Péter Magyar is campaigning against the current agricultural subsidies”, he said.
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