The systematic degradation of democratic institutions, the authoritarian review of press freedom, the weakening of trade union rights are an insult to all democrats in Europe and the world.

We reject the Hungarian model.

Sarkozy, Barroso and Berlusconi support the Hungarian Prime Minister because they support the policies that flirts with the extreme right. Just as they support the neoliberal political forces that have imposed, over the recent years, policies friendly to the economic and financial international circles but that had prompted the Hungarian society to poverty and despair. By not condemning the Hungarian government's taking over of the EU presidency in the current circumstances, Sarkozy, Barroso and Berlusconi reveal their vision of a European model.

The Party of the European Left is in full solidarity with the Hungarian people and all Hungarian democrats who are mobilising and struggling for the emergence of an alternative in Hungary.

We support their struggle against this undemocratic government and its abuse of power.
EL president Pierre Laurent