Main opposition Fidesz party leader Viktor Orban has been re-elected as one of the vice-presidents of the European People’s Party (EPP), Peter Szijjarto, head of Orban’s office, told MTI on Thursday.
As vice-president, Orban will participate in the process of making European decisions on issues impacting Hungary, such as job creation, economic and social policy, security or immigration, Orban told reporters following his re-election at EPP’s Bonn congress on Thursday.
Concerning Hungary’s general elections next spring, Orban said that his party was relying on the EPP’s support in the election campaign.
At Fidesz’s proposal, the congress adopted an action plan for the integration of the Roma in Europe, Orban said. “What happens in Hungary is distressing: the Roma issue is always discussed in connection with crime… the state is unable to maintain public order and in many places the police are unable to control the situation,” Orban said. He added, however, that if his party won the next parliamentary elections, it would “put an end to stealing, robbery and people threatening one another.”
Orban said, at the same time, that resolving the problems of the Roma – an estimated 10-12 million people in Europe – was a top priority for the whole community.
“I hope that once we are in power we will receive assistance from Europe” in addressing the job, health care, and education problems affecting Hungary’s Roma, as well as in “building proper frameworks for cooperation” between Roma and non-Roma Hungarians, Orban said.
The EPP, grouping Europe’s Christian democratic and conservative parties, elected altogether ten vice-presidents at its Bonn congress.
The EPP re-elected one-time Belgian prime minister Wilfried Martens as its president on Wednesday.
Any one has a clue of this patent medicine that will
“put an end to stealing, robbery and people threatening one another”
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Only Roma that will be stopped doing this, or do we others also need to stop?
Many Hungarian villages are now occupied by gypsies.
That is to say they are in the majority. Tens of thousand of so-called native Hungarians work abroad
in Italy, Germany, Austria and Britain. They cannot earn a living in the provinces. How then can uneducated Roma, many living in squalor, manage to survive here?
The dichotomy is Hungarians are getting out and gypsies are flooding in from somewhere.
The priority is to create schemes and implement programs that will create jobs for everybody.
Rural Hungary is in mess with a host of related problems. Not to mention poor roads and rail links, with useless local administration that has long past its sell-by date.
Posturing politicians spouting rhetoric from their comfortable offices in the city in order to gain votes is a waste of time. They should visit
every part of Hungary with a copy of their manifesto and let us all know what the fuck they are going to do to improve the lot of everyone.
Gee, I don’t know what Orban is talking about. According to some of the people on this site, there is no such thing as Gypsie crime, just a simple case of action and reaction. The Romas feel victimized/discrimiated against from the Hungarians and because of this, sometimes unfortunate things happen.