Huge thanks to the European People's Party - including @ManfredWeber, @vonderleyen, @JunckerEU, @donaldtuskEPP, Merkel & others - for this. The pan-European umbrella group @EPP has for years promoted the creation of a dictatorship in EU member state Hungary. Success!
2020 was the year the EU definitively ceased being a group of democracies.
EU member state Hungary is an outright dictatorship.
EU member state Poland is not far behind. bit.ly/2SxaBEJ
Remember the European People's Party @EPP - including @ManfredWeber, @vonderleyen, @donaldtuskEPP, Merkel and others - is the pan-European umbrella group that has consistently supported & promoted the creation of a dictatorship in EU member state Hungary. hrw.org/news/2020/04/2…
For #HumanRightsDay tomorrow, a long thread marking the 72nd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in its own words...
Preamble:
Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,
Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind,
All the times the European People's Party, @EPP, could have decided to #ExpelFidesz over the Hungarian ruling party's destruction of democracy in an EU member state...
It’s sometimes hard to describe to people just how disgusting and extremist Hungary’s dictatorship is. You can only show them the regime's words and hope they understand the deep depravity of things like belittling the Holocaust… with anti-Semitism…
Remember, this is the same ruling party extremist in Poland who said #LGBT people were not equal to other citizens, "We stop listening to these absurdities about so-called human rights..."
And this same person - Poland's education minister - also said people should have more children and beat the tar out of them. reuters.com/article/worldN…