I received a letter from Brussels. It's real, not some kind of electronic spam, regular paper, just not handwritten. The message came from the Director of Communications of the European Parliament.
I'll be honest, I suddenly had no idea why I could be so important to one of the great people of EP. The letter describes in detail that I visited the European Parliament building on September 28, which is correct so far, since this is how it happened. By entering the building, I accepted all its rules. That's clean too.
The complications followed, because I committed a huge offense. I approached a Western EP representative, whom I dared to ask for an interview. The lady was the Dutch Sophie in 't Veld. Before I tell you in more detail what happened, a quick interjection.
I am working on a production that has not yet been made public, for which I wanted to interview several left-wing representatives from Brussels.
I sent about a dozen letters, but they didn't even reply. So I realized that if not online, then maybe they would talk to me in person. It didn't happen that way.
So Sophie in 't Veld was sitting in the cafe of the central location of the European Parliament, where she calmly ate her Western European salad. As my parents taught me, I of course politely waited for this, and when he left, I stopped him in the corridor for a word. I asked about the interview request and whether there might be an opportunity to talk. He shook me off and promised, but he hasn't answered my letter since then.
After that, as soon as time allowed, Sargentini's Dutch representative pressed me to the security department of the parliament, from where I was threatened that if I dared to ask another question, I would never be allowed to enter the Brussels building again. They referred to the fact that I dared to ask years ago, and they didn't like that either. So in the citadel of European freedom of speech, they are threatening to disable me because of an innocent question.
Yes, these are the people who worry about the situation of the Hungarian media 24 hours a day.
Source: Dániel Bohár/888.hu
Photo: Árpád Földházi