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11/05/2020. 19:00
“We Europeans must not play in the hands of ideologies and hysteria in the crisis either,” Gudrun Kugler told MEPs.
“A Hungarian coronavirus law has shocked half of Europe. The European Parliament passed a resolution describing the Hungarian emergency law as “completely contrary to European values”. And Donald Tusk, president of the European People’s Party (PPE), indirectly compared it to Hitler’s empowerment law of 1933, ”wrote the Austrian politician.
Then came the big surprise: Lawyers for the European Commission concluded in an internal expert opinion that Hungary’s state of emergency law adopted in view of the coronavirus crisis was formally in line with EU law.
Kugler recalled.
Added by Vera Jourová, Vice-President of the European Securities and Transparency Commission, first in an interview with Czech Public Service Television and then Euronews also stated on television that Hungarians do not violate EU law.
According to Kugler, Hungary’s critics were shocked and vehemently attacked the EU Commissioner. “Even if there is no secure legal basis for initiating infringement proceedings against Hungary, why is it so unpolitical and even acknowledging it? Why not continue being a bribe? The Austrian People’s Party citer criticized the criticism.
In this context, Gudrun Kugler recalled an interview with Katalin Novák in the German newspaper Die Welt, in which the Secretary of State for Family and Youth Affairs of the Ministry of Human Resources described as shameful and sad that such a decision could be made.
Such unrealistic decisions will weaken, rather than strengthen, the European People’s Party. … In these difficult times, why not work harder to develop a common vision in Europe of how we can live and politicize differently in the future?
– Quoted from the interview by Katalin Kugler Novák.
As he wrote, the Austrian authorities maintain good relations with Hungarian politicians. If there are problems, they will be discussed. At the same time, the recently observed political and press turmoil “needs to make us think, because in the current crisis, Europeans are even less free to play in the hands of ideologies and hysteria,” Kugler said.
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