For about six hours, Hungary was the topic of today's session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The EP is about to adopt a very strict decision on the Child Protection Act, and almost all of the government and opposition MEPs present spoke in the debate. While the opposition calls for a rule of law mechanism and withdrawal of funds, according to right-wing politicians, hysteria is being created around the law.

First, the recently adopted child protection law was scrutinized by the body with a left-liberal majority, and then the deputies discussed the status of the procedure under article seven against our country. During the debate on the LGBTQ-themed regulation against pedophilia, with an extremely large number of speakers, many members of the government and the opposition expressed their opinions. Among them were Fidesz politicians Balázs Hidvéghi and Enikő Győri, KDNP representative György Hölvényi, Klára Dobrev from DK and Katalin Cseh from Momemtum. The upcoming decision of the EP, which is particularly strict towards Hungary and threatens to withdraw funds, was put forward by the Maltese Cyrus Engerer. We already wrote about the homosexual left-wing politician.

As a result of the debate, the EU Parliament will decide tomorrow on a resolution that, among other things, calls on the European Commission to ensure that the Hungarian authorities use EU funds based on the principle of non-discrimination, so that the country cannot receive funds from individual sections of the 2021-2027 framework budget until then. from its foundations, as long as possible violations of law exist.

In the debate on the Hungarian Child Protection Act, representatives of the European Commission and the Council first presented their positions. Věra Jourová, the liberal vice-president of the EC, explained in detail which EU legislation, in her opinion, the Hungarian regulation might conflict with.

We have received the response letter from the Hungarian authorities, we are now analyzing it, he said, referring to the fact that the European Court of Justice had previously informed Budapest of its legal concerns, to which the written response had already arrived in Brussels.

According to Jourová, the committee is ready to defend the rule of law with all possible means. Speaking about the child protection law, he repeated Ursula von der Leyen's words that the law confuses pornography with homosexuality.

Regarding the so-called rule of law procedure against Hungary under Article 7, he stated that, just like in the Polish case, he does not see any positive developments, and even a decline in the state of democracy.

In the debate, Slovenian Foreign Minister Anže Logar spoke about the fact that, although family policy is the competence of the member states, the basic EU treaties concretely prohibit discrimination. He confirmed that the Slovenian EU presidency also wants to continue the "rule of law dialogue" practice of the German and Portuguese presidencies.

One basis for this will be the European Commission's 2021 rule of law report package, which will be presented by the body within weeks (presumably on July 20).

It is difficult to find words for the madness that is taking place in the European Parliament today. How is it possible that you here refer to European values ​​and law, while throwing a tantrum at the EU treaties and the division of powers contained in them? Balázs Hidvéghi emphasized in his speech in Strasbourg. According to the MEP representative, the Hungarian law badly adapted by the EU parliament serves only the protection of children and looks after their interests above all else.

It stipulates that raising children remains the right of parents - the Fidesz EP representative explained the purpose of the law, adding: minors should not be exposed to self-serving sexual propaganda.
Not sexual propaganda of any kind, he underlined. Balázs Hidvéghi emphasized: In Hungary, everyone lives as they want, the scope of the law does not affect adults. LGBTQ organizations can operate freely, but they have no business in kindergartens and schools! - argued the representative, concluding his speech by saying: Hungary does not accept intervention in matters in which it has never delegated powers to the European Union.

Hungary, a wonderful country, has been held hostage by a corrupt politician to the core - said Klára Dobrev in Strasbourg, according to whom no one in the EP actually speaks out against Hungary. The EP vice-president, the EU representative of the DK, called the Hungarian government racist and homophobic, and then asked the top EU institutions to stop funding Viktor Orbán's family members and oligarchs.

Katalin Cseh, the EP representative of Momemtum, stated that the fact of the debate in itself is tragic: according to her, the only way to stop Viktor Orbán is by activating the rule of law mechanism.

Yesterday, another opposition party, Párbeszéd for Hungary, also urged the strengthening of the rule of law mechanism and the blocking of EU funds due to the country.

Have you actually read the legislation? Because it was not possible to reach the accusatory conclusions expressed here from its text. If the law really attacked the rights of homosexuals, I myself would be one of the first to take action against it, said György Hölvényi, the KDNP EP representative in the debate. The Christian Democrat politician emphasized that parental choice is the decisive factor in the child's sexual education, and no one can oblige parents, without their consent, to have their child receive a sexual education that they do not accept. Teaching mathematics also requires a teacher's qualification, and we cannot entrust the sexual education of children to activists, he underlined.

In her speech, Enikő Győri addressed the left wing of the EP and the sixty-eight percent of the European People's Party who supported the anti-Hungarian resolution. - You have turned the European Parliament into a court of impromptu judgment, already with the name of the debate you have anticipated the verdict that Hungary has violated EU law, even though we are at the very beginning of the breach of duty procedure - said the Fidesz representative. According to him, the left wing of the EP and the mentioned part of the People's Party are simply violating EU law, they are threatening in a matter that falls under national competence.

Under the pretext of the debate, attention is being diverted from the pressing issues facing Europe, such as the coronavirus or migration, emphasized Enikő Győri, who said that the left is also nervous because last Friday it was proven that there is a viable alternative on the right. The MEP referred to the fact that last week a total of sixteen European parties, including Fidesz, signed a joint declaration on the future of Europe, in which they support the idea of ​​the EU, but reject the European superstate.

In the debate, foreign critics of the government also attacked the law. The Green Party's Terry Reintke is himself a homosexual, so he used his own example to question what he considers to be a "hateful" Hungary. As he said, the Hungarian law negatively affects not only sexual minorities, but everyone.

On behalf of the European People's Party, Dutch Christian Democrat Jeroen Lenaers said that the Hungarian parliament
should be ashamed of the legislation.

Among the EP representatives on the side of the government, Jaki Patryk, the Polish representative of the European Conservatives and Reformers, spoke about the fact that love is about much more than sexuality, and the left wing of the EP does not seem to understand this. " Destroying the value of the family is a shame," he said, referring to Ursula von der Leyen's words on Wednesday morning.

Source: Hungarian Nation