STRASBOURG (ANP) – The brand new European Parliament will proceed with a troublesome method to Hungary, introduced Dutch Member of the European Parliament Tineke Strik at a press convention within the European Parliament. She spoke shortly earlier than Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán would additionally deal with the press in the identical constructing.
Throughout the interval of the earlier European Parliament, Strik from GroenLinks, as a Member of the European Parliament, was one of many leaders in taking a tough line towards Hungary. With the brand new European Parliament, nothing modifications, in keeping with Strik. She intends to proceed her activity with a group of Members of the European Parliament from numerous political events to name Hungary to order. So far as she is worried, the so-called Article-7 process that imposes penalties on Hungary, resembling freezing belongings, ought to transfer to the subsequent section. That signifies that the nation would even be stripped of its European voting rights.
Strik is the particular rapporteur of the European Parliament for the scenario in Hungary. In that capability, she visited the nation final week. She was shocked by what she discovered there, she stated. “Guidelines are modified from in the future to the subsequent.” Consequently, the authorized uncertainty for curiosity teams and opposition events has solely elevated, in keeping with Strik.
Subsequently, so far as she is worried, the European Parliament should proceed to place stress on EU nations and the brand new European Fee “to reply with a a lot stronger sense of urgency”. As a result of everybody can see “the place impunity leads”, particularly not solely to extra unjust convictions in Hungary, but additionally to the unfold of impunity to different member states.
The EU nations started the so-called Article-7 process towards Hungary in 2018, eight years after Orbán grew to become prime minister. “Now we’re six years later and the scenario has solely worsened. Judgments of the European courtroom should not revered and the independence of the judiciary is undermined by each judges and prosecutors.”
(8 October 2024)