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“We are not living in times when there is room for unrealistic ideas and wishful thinking” – Fidesz MEP Balázs Hidvéghi explained, while talking to European Conservative about the European People’s Party (EPP), debates on the rule of law, and the corruption scandal rocking Brussels.
“The EPP was once a true center-right European political family that based its politics on Christian Democratic values. In recent years, however, it has increasingly abandoned these values, and in exchange for a few positions or pats on the back, yielded to the pressure coming from the European Left,” according to Balázs Hidvéghi. It “let the left-wing groups in the European Parliament drive them into a corner not only on value-based topics, such as migration, gender, human rights, or subsidiarity, but more often on economic policies as well,” he claimed.
‼️Rule of law attacks are directed towards Central and Eastern European countries that do not agree with the woke, progressive elites that dominate in Western Europe. More in my interview with @EuroConOfficial #awakenotwoke #Christian #woke #conservative https://t.co/rxtdg4JSvL
— Hidvéghi Balázs (@BalazsHidveghi) May 8, 2023
Hidvéghi noted that “on the issue of migration, the EPP follows Viktor Orbán’s policy when it demands EU funds for border fences,” adding that: “better later than never.”
According to the MEP, “the devastating effects of the war in Ukraine and the economic effects of European sanctions on Russia, it is clear that pushing an ideological agenda instead of representing the real interest of voters is not sustainable.”
If the big political parties do not change their policies on a wide range of issues, such as the green agenda, economic competitiveness, or migration, they will see the consequences at the 2024 elections,”
Hidvéghi warned.
Asked about the rule of law, he said that “it is obvious to every rationally thinking person that the so-called rule of law procedures are, in reality, politically motivated attacks against conservative, Christian democratic governments.”
The reason that attacks are often directed towards Central and Eastern European countries is that these countries have shown that they want to go their own way and do not agree with the increasingly ‘woke,’ progressive elites that dominate in Western Europe,”
he pointed out.
Speaking of the widespread corruption scandal (initially referred to as Qatargate), Hidvéghi said that “this scandal has shed light on the functioning of a sprawling network of MEPs, staff members, and NGOs in the European Parliament, but also seems to have affected the European Commission.” “This reflects the systematic deficiencies of the European institutions in a broader sense,” he added.
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