Enough of the EP’s left-wing Groups’ “show trials” against Hungarians – MEP Tamás Deutsch’s letter to fellow MEPs

MEP Tamás Deutsch, leader of the Fidesz delegation to the European Parliament, has sent a letter to MEPs in response to a politically motivated letter sent to the President of the European Commission, in which the leaders of the EP’s five left-wing groups call for the withholding of EU funds to which Hungary is entitled, once again, based on false accusations.

Honourable Colleagues,

The leaders of the five left-wing groups in the European Parliament have recently sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, in which, propagating serious untruths again, they expressed their concern about certain legislative developments in Hungary.

In the letter, they expressed their political expectation that — citing certain planned legislative changes in Hungary as a pretext — under no circumstances should the European Commission grant Hungary access to the resources of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

The proceedings of the five group leaders remind us, well-meaning Hungarians, of the absurdity of the Communist dictatorship of the 1950s, the so-called “show trials” organised by the state party and the political police, when the dictatorship’s rulers organised proceedings and criminal trials with spectacular facades, disguised in legal robes based on lies, to impose their political will, where the verdict of the “accused” was decided well in advance.

We never imagined that the practices of inhuman dictatorships of the 20th century could become a reality again in the free Europe of the 21st century! For many years, the left-wing groups in the European Parliament have been initiating and pursuing conceptual procedures against Hungary and the Hungarians. The leaders of the left-wing groups are now demanding the adoption of a decision that they have already decided well in advance and that will in any case condemn Hungary in one of these show procedures, the conditionality procedure, which is currently underway between the Hungarian Government and the European Commission.

The well-meaning Hungarians reject in the strongest possible terms the method reminiscent of the show trials of the ‘50s, which aims to exert crude political pressure in a legal guise.

Yours sincerely,

Tamás Deutsch MEP

Head of the Fidesz Delegation to the European Parliament