Text tabled : B7-0379/2011

  Charalampos Angourakis (GUE/NGL), in writing. – (EL) The unacceptable resolution condemning the reactionary revisions to the Hungarian Constitution is blatant and insulting interference in the internal affairs of a sovereign state. The Greek Communist Party condemns the reactionary revisions to the Hungarian Constitution adopted by the country’s anti-grassroots, bourgeois government which drastically restrict democratic rights and grassroots freedoms and further reinforce the reactionary characteristics of the bourgeois political system. However, we do not recognise any right of the European Parliament or the European Commission to interfere and determine the internal developments and political choices of sovereign states, regardless of whether or not they are members of this imperialist union. The prattling of the political spokesmen of capital about human rights and freedoms are immeasurable hypocrisy at a time when the lives and rights of the working classes in all the Member States of the EU are being crushed from one end to the other. The changes to the Hungarian Constitution are a move in precisely that direction, in order to consolidate the power of the local bourgeoisie. What the EU is seeking is an even more decisive role in political developments, including in the internal affairs of its Member States, so that it and the local bourgeoisie can join forces in imposing the iron will of the monopolies, profit for capital and a reduction in the cost of labour and crush the grassroots movement.