The European Parliament elections show that there has been a shift to the right in Europe, said Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto at the discussion "Looking to the Horizon: The Challenges of Hungarian Foreign Policy" held at the MCC Feszt in Esztergom. He went on to say that the formation of the Patriots for Europe group will help to identify the characteristics of the European liberal mainstream. One such characteristic is arrogance, which was shown by how they received the news that a new EP group was set up by MEPs with patriotic, conservative and Christian values. "The media critical of us alongside the politicians they promote took a rather disparaging view, portraying us as an obnoxious group, yet the third largest grouping in the European Parliament was created," the minister pointed out.
Brussels has spat democracy in the face
He took the view that Brussels has resorted to a means of ignoring the will of the people.
Quite a few of the political parties that joined the Patriots group came first in their countries, but when the top EU positions were allocated, these parties got nothing. This is a spit in the face of European voters and democracy.
Double standards are applied in Europe: what is allowed for the left and the liberal mainstream is not allowed for the patriots and the European right. The voters clearly decided that the ruling party in Hungary should continue its work, Peter Szijjarto pointed out, adding that Marine Le Pen's party won the national assembly elections and finished with over 30 percent, receiving one million more votes than the party that came second. It's another issue that this did not allow her to form a government. Besides just reading reports by the liberal press, it is also worth looking at the facts, because these facts are nowhere discussed, he recalled.
Commenting on the European People's Party, he said that the EPP had run the European Parliament in coalition with the European Socialists, but after a decline in their popularity, the Liberals and the Greens were needed. In this light, the EPP can be forgotten as a right-wing party, tending more towards the left. The party grouping, once center-right, has shifted to the left, with the advantage of opening up space for the real right, where there are now two party groups. The possibility of cooperation is still ahead of them, but time will come when a real right-wing grouping will take second place, the Hungarian foreign minister predicted.