In the past decade, the European Parliament has been increasingly trying to penetrate into areas that are not allowed by the provisions of the EU treaty, Zoltán Kovács said.
"The European Parliament was not given a hand in this matter," stated the state secretary responsible for international communication in an interview with Mandiner Reaktion. Zoltán Kovács reflected on the fact that the EP considers Hungary's consecutive presidency to be a concern, and they voted on this last week, stating that our country is considered unfit to hold the post. He said: the consecutive presidency of the Council of the European Union is actually not a right that can be taken away, but a duty, it has an institutionally established order fixed in the Treaty of Lisbon.
Zoltán Kovács sees it as a problem that in the EP they want to present political opinions as facts, which they would also move in the direction of legislation.
"The mainstream media and the European Union institutions have fallen into a trap, they can no longer, cannot be permissive towards Hungary, according to their perennial narrative, we are the black sheep of the EU. This has been a thirteen-year-long "soap opera", while the government is backed by the will of two-thirds of the electorate," emphasized the state secretary, who said that "there is always some topical issue that causes pressure, and in the last thirteen years, anti-Hungarianism has become institutionalized on the left side of the EP , it is quite obvious".
He noted that it must also be said in connection with the Russian-Ukrainian war that Central Europe is not interested in having such sanctions, "while the GDP is being slashed, and the skies are besieged by inflation due to the misguided sanctions".
"What would it look like if two Central European states led the current presidency of the European Union, whose political composition and support do not correspond to the left-wing majority of the EP?" - asked Zoltán Kovács.
Regarding Hungary, the EP prepared numerous reports on the rule of law and accepted statements of condemnation, just as it did about Poland, although it would not hurt to first examine the regular operation of the EU institutions to see if all the rules described in the treaty are being followed.
"We have fulfilled all our commitments," emphasized Zoltán Kovács, referring to the fact that the Hungarian government fully implemented the conditions necessary for sending the EU funds withheld from Hungary. However, according to him, he is afraid that, despite this, this story will drag on.
