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The Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) has unequivocally rejected a European Parliament resolution on Thursday that would strip Hungary of the right to take over the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union next year.
The right-wing party – an ally of Hungary’s governing Fidesz – pointed out in a statement that all Austrian MEPs, with the exception of the FPÖ representatives, supported the resolution.
This is a cowardly and unfair attack by the EU establishment against a member state that does not say ‘yes and amen’ to everything that comes from Brussels, and whose prime minister looks first and foremost to the well-being of its own people,”
Herbert Kickl, the party’s president stressed. “I expect the Austrian federal government to take the initiative at all possible levels to protect our neighboring country from the EU,” he added.
Petra Steger, FPÖ’s spokeswoman responsible for EU affairs, said that the EU is once again showing its true undemocratic face.
Governments that do not obey the EU, that do not agree with the ever-increasing centralization and expansion of competences of the EU, are now even to be excluded from the EU Council Presidency. It is seriously alarming that all other parties from Austria, with the exception of the Freedom Party, have agreed,”
she warned.
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