Prime minister Viktor Orban is criticising the single model using the doctrine according to which nothing is universal and, so, unchangeable
Opinion
Everything is possible, because laws are written by men and men can always reconsider the principle behind any law. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban's theory could finish to enlarge the gap between his country and international partners. Orban went to Strasbourg during last plenary session of the European Parliament to have an exchange of views to MEPs, who quizzed the head of government on the Hungarian internal affairs. Orban's extreme-right positions don't like in Europe, especially that one in favour of the death penalty. There Orban unveiled his plans, saying he wants Europe to rethink its legal framework. «I asked a question. I asked whether the death penalty could an instrument good to see law respected and safe life», said Orban. «We are not talking about revenge, we are talking about a proportionate punishment to the committed crime». Preliminary reactions to these words are very superficial. It seems Orban wants an eye for an eye regime, a law of retaliation as a basic principle for the society. The truth is the Hungarian prime minister goes beyond all that through a vision of ethical relativism, by which there are no universal, permanent criteria to determine what may be right or not. So, nothing is forever. We are in front of a hidden critic to the European system, always seen with a certain suspicion in the former Communist part of the EU. An opportunity, of course, but at the same time a reason to be nervous.
With the idea of singularity (single market, single mechanism, single currency, single skies and so on...) Europe makes nervous. The European Union - and this is no anything new - means having less powers with concerns for national sovereignty. There are people who don't like the idea to share values and laws considered as imposed from the top. An excess of democracy - given the fact European Union is a huge exercise of democracy - is considered as something to reconsider, and the Hungarian debate is clearly showing (even if, to be honest, not only from Hungary citizens are sending messages not to underestimate...).
The Hungarian leader showed to have well understood how democracy works when he clearly thumbed his nose at MEPs present in Strasbourg. «I will come here whenever it will be necessary, because coming here is an extraordinary opportunity to talk about our work at home». Europe became so far the place for electoral campaign, and that place to can better promote national policies. Europe is facing a huge challenge, a kind of challenge whose outcome is not clear at all. On the contrary, there is he who started to put into question the absolute values shared for decades. Changes are taking place in some part of Europe, and now the question is whether Europe will be able to stem it. Orban represents that changes of dangerous nature. In general, discussing about death is not something really good to look at the future with confidence.
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Everything is possible, because laws are written by men and men can always reconsider the principle behind any law. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban's theory could finish to enlarge the gap between his country and international partners. Orban went to Strasbourg during last plenary session of the European Parliament to have an exchange of views to MEPs, who quizzed the head of government on the Hungarian internal affairs. Orban's extreme-right positions don't like in Europe, especially that one in favour of the death penalty. There Orban unveiled his plans, saying he wants Europe to rethink its legal framework. «I asked a question. I asked whether the death penalty could an instrument good to see law respected and safe life», said Orban. «We are not talking about revenge, we are talking about a proportionate punishment to the committed crime». Preliminary reactions to these words are very superficial. It seems Orban wants an eye for an eye regime, a law of retaliation as a basic principle for the society. The truth is the Hungarian prime minister goes beyond all that through a vision of ethical relativism, by which there are no universal, permanent criteria to determine what may be right or not. So, nothing is forever. We are in front of a hidden critic to the European system, always seen with a certain suspicion in the former Communist part of the EU. An opportunity, of course, but at the same time a reason to be nervous.
With the idea of singularity (single market, single mechanism, single currency, single skies and so on...) Europe makes nervous. The European Union - and this is no anything new - means having less powers with concerns for national sovereignty. There are people who don't like the idea to share values and laws considered as imposed from the top. An excess of democracy - given the fact European Union is a huge exercise of democracy - is considered as something to reconsider, and the Hungarian debate is clearly showing (even if, to be honest, not only from Hungary citizens are sending messages not to underestimate...).
The Hungarian leader showed to have well understood how democracy works when he clearly thumbed his nose at MEPs present in Strasbourg. «I will come here whenever it will be necessary, because coming here is an extraordinary opportunity to talk about our work at home». Europe became so far the place for electoral campaign, and that place to can better promote national policies. Europe is facing a huge challenge, a kind of challenge whose outcome is not clear at all. On the contrary, there is he who started to put into question the absolute values shared for decades. Changes are taking place in some part of Europe, and now the question is whether Europe will be able to stem it. Orban represents that changes of dangerous nature. In general, discussing about death is not something really good to look at the future with confidence.
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