It will tear the European Union apart if Brussels tries to dictate legislation, because this process will lead to member states not complying with EU decisions, Bence Tuzson stated.
The Government Secretary of the Prime Minister's Cabinet Office, the future Minister of Justice, pointed out at a podium discussion at the Bálványosi Summer Free University and Student Camp (Tusványos) on Thursday: the EU wants to impose its will on the nation-states through "stealth legislation", loosening legal concepts, calling the indefinable principles of the rule of law to account, and wants to enforce European law against national law through judicial means.
On the other hand, EU law can only apply if it is not in conflict with the constitution of the member states, so the Constitutional Court can stop this harmful trend, he pointed out.
At the panel discussion entitled The Sovereignty of Nation States, or How EU Law Fights Against National Law, Bence Tuzson cited the Istanbul Convention, which aims to curb violence against women, as an example of "stealth legislation". In this case, the EU already acted as a contracting party, even though the details were not fully agreed upon between the member states.
The minister noted that it contains many forward-looking articles that are already used in Hungarian law, but in terms of the use of terms, elements of gender theory are smuggled into an international document. With this method, new concepts are "sneaked in" into EU directives, which the nation states have an obligation to transpose, and which the European Commission then tries to enforce in the EU court.
The other method is to loosen concepts, he added. As an example, he cited the fact that the concept of refugees, i.e. those fleeing persecution to the first safe country, was extended to all economic immigrants arriving in Europe.
According to Bence Tuzson, the diversity of the EU should be preserved, no member state should be forced to apply the same legal solutions as another country, but common points should be sought.
"This requires an objective system of criteria, one that suits everyone. If it doesn't work like this, the EU will fall apart," said the Minister of Justice.
Another participant in the discussion, Csoma Botond, the faction leader of the RMDSZ in the House of Representatives, said that the concept of a nation state is dissonant for the Transylvanian Hungarians, because it reminds them of the Romanian nation-state aspirations, which, by demanding the loyalty of national minorities, are actually aimed at homogenization and assimilation.
However, in the relationship between the union and the member states, the RMDSZ politician also sees it as follows: the EU court demands from member state courts to enforce EU law in controversial issues, ignoring national law. As he said, the body in Romanian robes is one of the four constitutional courts that questioned the primacy of EU law over national law.
MTI
