Economy
Hungary's Orbán is "the master of provocation" - EP President
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is “the master of provocation", the other day he called European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and other politicians, including Liberal MEP Guy Verhofstadt “nihilist and who knows what else", EP President Martin Schulz told German television ZDF today.
For instance, we need to solve the problem of tax evasion, we need to make sure multinational companies making billions in profits finally pay their taxes. This way we would have more funds for towns and settlements to cope more successfully with the migration crisis, he added. These are the issues we need to focus on, and it “leads to nowhere" if policymakers get under each other’s skin or talk about “who will kick out who from the EU.
"Anyone who build fences against refugees from war like Hungary does, or who violate press freedom and judicial independence, should be excluded temporarily or, if necessary, forever from the EU," Asselborn said, adding it was "the only way to preserve the cohesion and values of the EU."
Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn reacted to this when he talked about revoking Hungary’s EU membership. While this response is “understandable emotionally" but “how do we want to expel Hungary when we don’t even know how the Brits should leave" the EU? This whole thing is “pure nonsense", Schulz added.
Schulz added he would meet Orbán on Friday and he will tell him “throwing insults back and forth makes no sense" because people want politicians to solve the problems rather than to provoke each other.For instance, we need to solve the problem of tax evasion, we need to make sure multinational companies making billions in profits finally pay their taxes. This way we would have more funds for towns and settlements to cope more successfully with the migration crisis, he added. These are the issues we need to focus on, and it “leads to nowhere" if policymakers get under each other’s skin or talk about “who will kick out who from the EU.
"Anyone who build fences against refugees from war like Hungary does, or who violate press freedom and judicial independence, should be excluded temporarily or, if necessary, forever from the EU," Asselborn said, adding it was "the only way to preserve the cohesion and values of the EU."
