Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch accuses the European Parliament and Daniel Freund of exerting primitive political pressure.Continue reading
A delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Budgetary Control (CONT) arrived in Budapest on Monday. Daniel Freund, a German Green Party member of the delegation, has already gotten into an argument with Arne Gobert, President of the German Economic Club, which brings together German companies and businesses operating in Hungary.
According to the Mandiner article, Freund tweeted Gobert his email address, mocking the club’s president for saying he was not allowed to speak in the European Parliament. “I am always available for a chat, although I would like to make it clear that, unfortunately, your mocking me fits the image I had to experience in Brussels when I registered as a speaker and was denied the floor at a public hearing,” Gobert responded.
According to Mandiner, CONT did not allow Arne Gobert to speak at the hearing on German firms and companies allegedly being systematically discriminated against in tenders in Hungary.
Freund also reacted to an article on our portal, claiming that he was not criticizing Hungary, but Viktor Orbán.
Orban,not Hungary. pic.twitter.com/NuXUAv2WmU
— Daniel Freund (@daniel_freund) May 15, 2023
Telex reported that activists from Fidelitas, the youth organization of the ruling Fidesz party, waited for the delegation on Monday with bags stuffed with euro bundles. They were referring to a corruption case involving former EP Vice-President Eva Kaili, who resigned in the wake of the scandal, and her husband, who hid some of the hundreds of thousands of euros in bribes in bags and a suitcase. That is why the suitcases were stickered with Kaili’s picture by the Fidelitas members.
MEPs’ mission to Budapest to investigate #corruption backfires.
Young conservatives mock them as they arrive to the local office of the EP.
Maybe put your own house in order first!?@EP_BudgControl @Europarl_EN #EvaKaili @daniel_freund @katka_cseh @MHohlmeier @sandor_ronai pic.twitter.com/7TXXb7YUOG— András László (@laszloan) May 16, 2023
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