Yesterday, the European Commission presented its reform proposal for the so-called “Stability and Growth Pact”, the EU’s rules for national public debts and deficits, which in the view of critics have in the past neither supported stability nor growth.
Judit Vargas
Hungary’s justice minister has said her country is “leading the way to change the attitude” in the EU’s stance on Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, while denying that her government used antisemitic tropes to target critic George Soros.
Judit Vargas said Hungary made “every effort to guarantee the life of the Jewish community” while lambasting the decisions elsewhere in Europe to ban non-stun slaughter of animals.
A member of the ruling right-wing cabinet, which has attacked Jewish philanthropist and critic Soros using themes of money and shadowy power, Vargas said antisemitism was “always a card played against Hungary”.
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