The Prime Minister called the report on the situation of fundamental rights approved by the European Parliament on Wednesday unjust and said that business lobby interests lie behind the measures taken against Hungary.

Viktor Orbán addressed the Hungarian Parliament on Thursday in a pre-agenda speech and said the Tavares report has severely violated Hungary's rights by disregarding the European Parliament's powers and upsetting the balance of rights between member states and the European Union. He said it arbitrarily set new criteria and introduced new procedures and new institutions in contravention of the founding treaties.

The report aims to harm a member state's sovereignty, which poses a threat to the whole of Europe and its future, the Prime Minister emphasised.

(Prime Minister’s Office)