Viktor Orbán’s party has declared against the European Parliament and for the return of the loose European Economic Community
The Parliament of Hungary called for the abolition of the European Parliament in its current form and for the deletion of the goal of an “ever closer union” in the EU treaties, the DPA agency reported, quoted by BGNES.
The decision, brought by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party, received 130 votes in the 234-seat parliament. Fifty MPs abstained.
The document proposes that MEPs should not be directly elected by voters in the individual member states, but should be elected by national parliaments, as the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is formed. It is a parliamentary body of another European institution – the Council of Europe (47 member states), not of the European Union (27 states).
Orbán, a supporter of “illiberal democracy”, says he stands up for Hungarian sovereignty and European Christian values, which he says are being undermined by the cosmopolitan and technocratic EU.
He believes that the European Union should be only an economic and trade community, as the European Economic Community (EEC) was before it became the European Union in 1993, and is against all attempts at political integration, DPA agency notes.
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