The National Consultation: some 600 thousand questionnaires had already been sent in

“The National Consultation is not anti-European, and in fact, it is distinctly pro-European and is aimed at reforming the EU through protecting issues that fall within a national sphere of competence”, the Minister of State for Government Communication said.

At his press conference, Bence Tuzson stressed that Hungary is under “never before seen pressure”, and accordingly there has never been a more important time for the people of Hungary to stand up in defence of Hungary’s interests.

According to Mr. Tuzson, the best instrument for doing so is to fill out and return the National Consultation questionnaire. “A country’s politics can only be successful if it has the support of the people”, the Minister of State said.

The most important question put forward in the National Consultation concerns immigration policy, because Brussels would like to force Hungary to “allow in illegal immigrants”, he explained , adding that this would mean that the current practice of performing immigration procedures at the border would again be replaced by procedures within the territory of the EU. “This is something we would like to avoid at all costs”, he added.

Mr. Tuzson cited the issue of energy union, or protecting of the existing achievements of Hungary’s reduction in public utility charges, as the second issue, highlighting the fact that Brussels would like to leave the right to determine energy prices up to free competition, or rather up to the energy companies, but according to the Hungarian Government the right solution is to have an upper limit for energy prices. “Is Brussels creates competition in this area, it will not serve the interests of the people, because energy prices will break through this ceiling”, he said.

In addition, the Hungarian Government is also insisting on the fact that the Hungarian activities of “various paid activist organisations” must be transparent, meaning that their activities must be made clear to the Hungarian public and they should report on foreign funding received above a certain amount, the Minister of State from the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister said.