The Government does not seek to banish a single university, including the Central European University (CEU), Government Spokesperson Zoltán Kovács said on the Thursday programme of the public service television news channel M1.
The Government Spokesperson highlighted that there was merely an investigation covering 28 institutions, and if similar to other institutions, CEU is able to meet the criteria of lawful operations, any accusations of banishment are mere hysterics.
At the same time, the leaders of CEU are demanding the revocation of a legal rule which has not even been presented to Parliament yet, the politician added.
The Government Spokesperson also pointed out that some non-governmental organisations, such as the Hungarian Helsinki Committee are trying to exert political pressure under the disguise of the protection of human rights. In his view, a good example is the case of the two Bangladeshis they represented, in connection with whom the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights condemned Hungary due to the refusal of the two men’s asylum applications.
In other words, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee intends to influence political decision-making without any kind of political legitimacy as the „hair-raising” judgement denies a sovereign country the right to decide whom to let into its territory, the Government Spokesperson said.
Mr Kovács also stressed that there is political and judicial pressure on Hungary in order to change its stance on the issue of illegal immigration. Many people are upset because we have built an effective border protection system, he added.
The question is why Europe does not want to meet the conditions, and the European People’s Party may be an effective means for conducting a genuine debate about the future of Europe also in this field, he stressed.
The Visegrád alliance, too, may promote this, as the countries involved have proven in the past year and a half that they are able to cooperate on hot issues such as the protection of the borders or food safety, Mr Kovács said.
(MTI)
