The Hungarian Fidesz Party – FG’s sister party in the EPP – as part of its systematic abuse of refugees, has set up concentration camps for them along Hungary’s border.
Since the beginning of August it has been depriving some of those incarcerated in these camps of food, according to this report from Human Rights Watch.
The Hungarian Immigration and Asylum Office (IAO) on August 20 stated that there is nothing in Hungarian law that explicitly obliges authorities to provide food to people in the “aliens policing procedure” in the transit zones.
The concentration camps are part of the July amendments to the asylum law were part of a broader anti-semitic “Stop Soros package,” which also makes it a criminal offense to provide services, advice, or support to migrants and asylum seekers, punishable by up to a one year in jail.
So next time you meet a Fine Gael politician, ask them about when they are going to initiate the process of expelling Fidesz from the European People’s Party, of which their party is a member.
The answer you will probably get is “What’s Fidesz?”, but it’s worth a try.
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There are two arguments, which I offer not as personal beliefs but for critical examination.
– Hungarian voters know that it is ‘safe’ to indulge in acting out some fascism because they expect the EU will catch them and stop them before they go too far. They wouldn’t risk as much if they were outside the EU. So, better keep them inside the machine than outside.
– European Parliament political groupings are not that important to national politicians. But better to have Fidesz in some grouping than none: and once they’re in one, best it be the EPP which is the only one able to achieve any party discipline, because it is the only one big enough to reliably win votes and is therefore able to horse-trade.
Meanwhile it is of course an obligation, under the Reception Directive, to feed (and clothe, and shelter, and give medical attention to, and provide schools for the children of) asylum applicants.