Péter MAGYAR

Policy topics Péter MAGYAR is active on

What Péter MAGYAR has said (7)

• “Honourable member, I think you're confusing your country with Prime Minister Orban. Orban is not Hungary. You've been lying for a minute in your question. But you're not saying why there are no funds available for Hungary. Everybody knows that your boss and his industrial scale corruption is responsible for the suspended funds. Tens of thousands of people were left stranded in railway stations in the heat. Uh, the Minister of Transport lives in a luxury, uh, castle. Uh, why don't you address issues like this? We have, uh, trains that, uh, go, uh, whose maximum speed is ten kilometers per hour. Uh, a century ago, it was 40.”
  Rule of law in Hungary
• “Thank you very much, president. Food prices in Hungary have grown at two and a half times the EU average. This is due to the misguided economic policy of the Orban Government. So Hungary is a record holder in Europe in terms of food inflation. Some food products have doubled their prices. In the meantime, pensions have grown by 2 or 3.2%, but Orban's own salary by 30%. There are hundreds of thousands of people and many children who have no access to healthy food. A million pensioners live below the poverty line. There are various hundreds of thousands of people who have less than two and a half euros per day for food. Viktor Orban have let down, has let down Hungarians, both consumers and farmers. Energy prices. Input prices are skyrocketing. Our VAT rate is a record holder in Europe. The Orban government is feeding people with lies in the propaganda. The Tea Party, when in government, will reduce food VAT to 5% and will put a brake on rising food prices. Orban is only talking about rural Hungary, but VAT is the highest in Europe and energy prices are the highest in Europe. The Tea Party commits itself to work for rural Hungary and for the Hungarian agricultural products, to regain their lost glory and their good reputation. Thank you.”
  Nutrition
• “Thank you for giving me the floor. We can only support a proposal that will allow Hungarian farming to be sustainable. We can only support plans that will allow people to have affordable, healthy food and allow farmers a decent standard of living. We want a policy that protects Hungarian farmers from lower quality imports from outside. Um. What we want is to have a Modern farming developing in Hungary as the party of small farmers. We want to protect our world leading agriculture. We will not allow it to be destroyed by pests and disease, and we will not starve it of funds. We will only be able to support a policy that will have a separate budget, a full fund of its own, with sufficient resources to do its job.”
  Agricultural funding
• “Thank you. A question for the EIB. I'm from Germany. There we have a strong biogas industry with some 10,000 biogas plants owned by farmers. I want to ask about lower interest rates guarantees. Are there projects which apply to biomethane production and where there can be funding from the EIB so either via EIB funds or investeu? I've read about projects where there is support for energy companies, but I have this specific question about biogas plants that are owned by farmers. That's a very important matter when it comes to. Guarantees and lower term interest prospects.”
  Biofuels (RED II)
• “Thank you. President. Commissioner, thank you very much for giving me the floor. As far as Hungary is concerned, the future of our EU resources is of key importance. And very soon our government will announce its first task, namely, to call an end to. To call an end to corruption, zero tolerance, to call out the corruption of the Orban regime and to bring these resources back to our Hungarian people. I think everybody knows that the reason why we're missing billions from our EU budget is because of the corruption of the Orban government. That's why we don't have money for education, health, rural development or indeed pensions. The Orban government is steering our country towards a complete bankruptcy and at the same time they are lying. They are trying to convince Hungarian people that it's not Viktor Orban who is the reason or the cause behind the fact that we are lacking resources. I think that looking at recent opinion polls, both Viktor Orban and his oligarchs are trembling. They know that their corruption will soon come to an end and they can start a different program, namely the road to prison here before the European Parliament. I would like to make it clear that in 2026, the Tisza government will take over government responsibility, fully prepared. We will call zero tolerance on corruption and we will help rekick the Hungarian economy.”
  Rule of law in Hungary
• “Chairman.Thank you very much. So we're looking at a situation where we're looking at protecting children. There's nothing more important than child protection. Of course, we have to have a legal framework in place. And along these lines, we welcome this new initiative to try and get rid of the statute of limitations. But it's important to underscore that the legal framework itself is not going to protect children in Hungary. Recently we've seen a number of scandalous cases, and it came to light. That. One of the. High ranking individuals in the in politics and the law are implicated. So we need to see new forms of legal protection because the new forms of crime and despite witnesses and warnings, the Orban government has appointed a director of a youth detention facility who himself is a convicted abuser. And we see him smiling from photos and. Shaking hands with all sorts of people. So we have to see political responsibility. Taken a blue card for you?”
  Rule of law in Hungary
• “Thank you, Mr. President. There is a saying. That the wealth of a nation becomes obvious not to win. People who. Poor people can own a car. But when even rich people travel by train. Hungarians are baffled by the fact that the EU spends loads of money on developing rail travel. And under Orban's government, time has not only come to a standstill, it is now in full reverse. The rail network has fallen apart. Can you imagine that the Orban government is blaming Tisza for all of this, when everybody knows that funds are not available because they have been suspended? Because of the corruption of Orban's regime and Orban's luxury loving transport secretary stopped all development projects three years ago. All of them rolling stocks are 40 years old on average. Uh, delays. If you add them up, are up to over seven years last year. It is not just that air conditioning does not work in, uh, trains and hospitals. Uh, it doesn't, uh, even the toilets don't work. Um, Auburn promises, uh, to modernize rail travel, but buys 30 year old leases, 30 year old rolling stock. But this time he is wrong because Hungarians will take their country back and TSA will start modernizing the network. Thank you.”
  EU support of rail transport