The minister said European Union institutions had grown out of touch with the bloc’s citizens and that many of the bloc’s decisions were often “far from reality”. Fidesz to Opt out of Salvini’s New Party Cooperation. Because when the left is extreme, it is covered with the cloak of love! He said no country should be forced to take in migrants against its will and no one should be admitted … More open is whether Fidesz, which secured 13 of Hungary's 21 seats in the 751-seat European Parliament, leaves the mainstream European Peoples' Party (EPP) to side with far-right nationalists in the new European Parliament. The EU should also stop issuing prepaid debit cards and “migrant visas” to migrants, Orbán said. The government likely either deems these topics unimportant from a domestic political perspective or they are in line with the government’s interests; thus, in these cases we can observe balanced reporting in GCMOs as well. The so-called equality thinking resulting in inequality à volonté in practice is hypocrisy at its best. In fact, only about 2-3 million immigrants have recently arrived to the EU, which has a population of 500 million, and the Swedish welfare state is doing fine, it is still ranked second in US News’s list of countries with the highest quality of living. Europeans oppose immigration, Orbán said, adding that European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans, the lead candidate of the European Socialists, on the other hand, was in favour of it. Why true and not stigmatizing? He said the EU’s programme of legal migration was actually a “front” for replacing Europe’s population with immigrants. Tamás Székely 2015.06.08. Moreover, any increase in the number of policy fields where EU decisions are made unanimously gives more opportunities to hostile third countries to influence the EU’s policies through bilateral relations with member states – which is in line with the provisions of Russia’s Foreign Policy Concept approved in 2016. All articles received an EU-critical tag if: their purpose was to negatively influence the population’s perception of the EU; they did not introduce the opposing side’s viewpoints or they were disproportionately underrepresented; they contained debunkable disinformation or unjustifiable claims. Quite a difficult goal to achieve in a society that is held together by sowing fear and applying punishments. After criticisms that the portfolio pandered to the far-right, van der Leyen announced it would be called Promoting the Euroepean Way of Life”. By Krisztina Than and Marton Dunai. Fidesz is presenting a very simple view of the world to its electorate: the decisive dividing line on the European level lies not between traditional left-right party lines but between pro- and anti-immigration forces. Hungary underwent a democratic transition after 1989, following four decades of communist rule. If it later emerges that intentions are malicious, our democracy still leaves room for correct intervention. Weber: Merkel and I Determine the Political Direction of the EPP, Not Orbán. Fidesz has held a supermajority in parliament since that … There is a good chance that he will be confronted with his own reflection. “There is an error in the appliance of the Brussels elite,” Orbán said, adding that there was a “bubble”, or “virtual world” in Brussels that refused to accept reality. Before the vote, Fidesz officials had threatened to pull out of the EPP if it was suspended. These topics are all connected to the main campaign message of the government’s EP-election campaign, which claims that in the election “the patriots go up against the Soros-controlled leftist-liberal elite organizing migration, who are trying to punish anti-immigration member states under the veil of alleged deficiencies in the rule of law”. If you act against this, you will receive little or no support. To those who literally put others away as ‘vinegar pissers’: Could it be that your perception of the other is seriously lacking and that the other simply has a legitimate different opinion in certain areas that is at least as valuable as yours? Fidesz’s anti-immigration cabinet was established in October 2018. The nuance is simply completely lost. Prime Minister Viktor Orban told supporters of his Fidesz party that he would cooperate with everyone in Europe who wanted to halt immigration. “We won’t allow this,” the minister said, adding that this was what voters needed to make clear in the EP elections. "We would not like to belong somewhere where we don't have an influence on the main strategy issues," Orban said.