Hungary’s prime minister on Saturday welcomed the outcome of the Irish referendum on the Lisbon Treaty, saying that the EU could become more efficient and valuable as a result.
Gordon Bajnai said in a statement that the decision was victory for Hungary, too, since the biggest obstacle in the way of producing a stronger EU had been removed.
Noting that Hungary’s parliament was he first to ratify the treaty, Bajnai said that European nations should be cooperating more closely to create greater security and a higher standard of living for European citizens, and the Lisbon Treaty enshrined these aims.
He said that Europe’s institutions should be more transparent and decision-making more democratic. This, he said, would make cooperation between states more successful as well as enhancing the organisation’s foreign relations.
Both the ruling Socialist party and main opposition Fidesz issued statements on Saturday welcoming the decision of the Irish in support of the Lisbon Treaty.
“Fidesz congratulates the Irish people on its responsible decision which has removed the biggest obstacle to the implementation of the treaty.”
The Socialist party called the decision “wise” and “responsible”.
well now we know that Fidesz is also a part of the system to destroy independent nations! Even their own country and it’s people.
Hungarys parliament might have been first to ratify the ‘treaty’, but not the Hungarian people-No referendum option!
Ricsi,
Which question should there not be a referendum about?
What is the meaning of electing people to a Parliament if they are not suppose to make decisions? In this specific question we all know that the absolute majority in Parliament is for the agreement, so what would be the reason to have a referendum?
Viking, though I agree with you in principle, governments would be impossible to run if you had absolute democracy where people voted on every little thing, but how many people knew when they cast their last vote that it would include ratification of this document which sure-as-shit no one in the Hungarian government even read.
Cest Moi @ You are going up in my estimation! Excellent comment.
Please Richy, don’t ever think that I am in your camp, I could never sign on to most of the ridiculous ideas you hold.
“European Union politicians like to lecture foreigners on the importance of democracy. Yet, the EU itself has entered a post-democratic age. Increasingly, it is run by unelected and unaccountable technocrats in Brussels who are disdainful of public opinion. In 2005, when French and Dutch voters defeated the proposed EU Constitution—which would have massively expanded the power of Brussels—the Eurocrats repackaged the Constitution as the Lisbon Treaty, which supposedly required no plebiscites.” WSJ
Pretty, scary, our EU! It is interesting that as in Hungary, so in the UK: no referendum on the biggest ever ceding of national sovereignty to this idiotically expensive and unwieldy EU. The EU was immensely unpopular in Britain since Day One. It is ever more so. But neither the Government nor the Opposition is willing to speak against the Lisbon Treaty. The challenging Opposition has said (without great enthusiasm) that it will put the issue to referendum if the UK has not ratified the Treaty before it is elected to office. It is quite obvious that it hopes like hell that it will be ratified before then. And in Hungary even Orbán is all for it! I do not like this at all. An EU with a separate legal personality that can sign all kinds of international agreements that are binding on member states, including on foreign policy, defence, crime and judicial issues? I don’t even know this wretched ‘personality’. EEEK!
That EU has demands on it to act when member states introduces laws that other member states finds bad, is a theme that has been proposed here several times. But giving power to the EU, to do what we want? Oh no, not possible.
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If anyone thinks that 25-30 NationalStates can have any influence in the world when acting one by one, easily split and divided by the US, Russia and China, well keep on dreaming.
If we ever want to be more independent from both the US and Russia must we unite and doing that you do not get 100%.
There is no surprise that the most anti-EU parties/people are the ones that support the US/Russia most and count on their support for their own agenda.
Viking, if this is the price you are willing to pay, “unelected and unaccountable technocrats in Brussels who are disdainful of public opinion”, then more power to you. If it were my EU I certainly wouldn’t want to consolidate more power in the hands of Brussels just to push the agenda of larger, more established member states.