BRUSSELS (AP) — Leaders of the main parties in the ECU parliament on Saturday condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his “openly racist” comments about racial mixing.
Orban’s warning last week against the creation of “mestizo peoples” is “unacceptable” and violates values enshrined in EU treaties, the organization said in a statement.
A European Parliament spokeswoman said the statement was followed on Friday by a “very broad” majority.
Parliament leaders also suggested to the European Commission and the European Council that they condemn Orban “in the strongest terms. “
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen, without explicitly mentioning Orban, on Saturday that “all EU member states, including Hungary, have subscribed to non-unusual global securities” that are “non-negotiable. “
“To discriminate on the basis of race is to mock those values. The European Union is based on equality, tolerance, fairness and justice,” von der Leyen added in an interview published in Slovak news aktuality. sk.
Earlier this week, a spokesman for the European Commission said it had never commented on statements by European politicians.
Among the party’s leaders in the European Parliament, the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists opposed the resolution to condemn Orban’s comments, according to a parliamentary source.
MPs from Orban’s nationalist Fidesz party have joined any of the EU’s main parliamentary teams since their split from the classic centre-right European People’s Party.
The Hungarian leader’s comments provoked widespread backlash outside EU offices, adding the International Auschwitz Committee, while the United States called them “inexcusable” and evocative of the Nazi era.
Orban’s government is already under scrutiny for a recent law deemed to undermine LGBTQ rights in Hungary and violate democratic norms on corruption, independence of the judiciary, the media and public procurement.
Brussels has blocked the post-COVID economic recovery budget for Hungary due to its breach of the rule of law.
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