The vast majority of Hungarians, 59 percent, who have promised to participate in the elections, do not agree with the European Union's involvement in the regulation of political advertisements related to member state elections and referendums. And 51 percent of them reject the fact that the European Union should decide what is real news and what is fake news, according to the opinion poll of the Center for Fundamental Rights.

The nationally representative survey assessed the opinion of people with a Hungarian address on the European Commission's package of proposals called Transparency and Democracy.

It becomes clear from the draft that the EU body wants to intervene in the internal affairs of the member states in connection with the conduct of democratic elections and their institutional frameworks, because it formulates as a goal that the EU institutions intervene in member state referendums and related campaigns with money from Brussels. In addition, the proposal stipulates that the European parties will finance their campaign activities from EU funds, with which the Commission would intervene in the political competition in the Member States.

February 7-9. data recorded between Only 33 percent of those surveyed said that they agreed with the possibility of such an expansion of EU powers.

The European Commission would check political ads and their content, and it could even delete those it doesn't like as fake news. The fact that the European Commission can decide what is real news and what is "fake news" was rejected by 51 percent of the respondents. Five out of ten respondents were able to recognize the political consequences of this planned measure: if they were to accept it, political advertisements that Brussels does not like, and opinions that question mainstream Brussels ideological ideas, could quickly find themselves in the "fake news" category. However, 34 percent of the active respondents participating in the research would support such a measure.

The above is a good example of the fact that the European Commission came up with a proposal intended to curtail the powers of the member states, which is directed against the member states protecting the sovereignty of the member states against the federalist Brussels institutions, but this is rejected by a proportion exceeding the absolute majority of Hungarians.

Source: MH

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