Csaba Dömötör takes the view that Brussels is seeking to withdraw ever more Member State powers from EU Member States without authorisation from the citizens of the EU, but the Hungarian Government will fight these attempts, the Tuesday issue of the newspaper Magyar Idők reports.

The Minister of State at the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister stressed in the interview given to the newspaper: the intention in the EU that taxation should be raised to a transnational level is becoming increasingly evident. Additionally, Brussels would take away from the Member States the right to fix prices on the electricity market, and would leave that entirely to the market players.

In the context of the management of immigration, he highlighted: Hungary is seeking to achieve through legislative amendments that migrants should be required to await the assessment of their asylum applications on a final and absolute basis in the transit zone.

Mr Dömötör also told the newspaper that his parliamentary group will submit a proposal to Parliament to the effect – according to his information – that political activist groups would be required to make periodic public disclosure of the purpose and amount of funding received from abroad in excess of a fixed limit. He added that other countries, too, are fighting against foreign attempts to influence domestic events. He mentioned the so-called Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) which was enacted in the United States in 1938. Based on this legislation, foreign agents (activists) are required to register with the Department of Justice and to render an account of their activities every six months. Members of Parliament would do well to look into this practice when they decide on the final form of the relevant regulation, he added.

(MTI/kormany.hu)