EU fallout grows over Orban's 'openly racist' words
Posted on AllSides July 31st, 2022
From The Center
Leaders of the European Parliament's main parties on Saturday condemned Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for "openly racist" remarks he made recently.
In a speech in Romania, Orban argued that Europeans should not "become peoples of mixed race."
"Such unacceptable statements, which clearly constitute a breach of our values, also enshrined in the EU treaties, have no place in our societies," the Conference of Presidents of the EU Parliament said Saturday in a strong rebuke of the far-right leader.
It comes a week after Orban, who was critical of EU plans to call for a...