Rogan: Hungary Protection Plan on table for early 2015

Budapest, December 29 (MTI) – Devising a national action plan on the protection of Hungary, a national development concept and a unified plan on support for families will be tabled at a meeting of the Fidesz-KDNP parliamentary group at the start of next year, the head of the Fidesz group of lawmakers said on Monday.

Antal Rogan told MTI in a year-end interview that the action plan for the protection of the country will be one of the major tasks ahead in 2015.

“Today, when Hungary is being attacked from outside, the government and parliament are somewhat unprotected in fending off these attacks,” he said.

One example of such an attack is when a racist conference was organised in Hungary by foreign citizens, which authorities were only able to prevent at the last minute. Further, many economic activities in Hungary do not add to the national wealth, as profits automatically leave the country, Rogan added. He suggested that in response to this problem legislation should be passed which taxes companies for a bigger part of revenue generated in Hungary.

Rogan said anti-government demonstrations over the past few months were an example of the influence of big powers or economic players as they tried to exert pressure on Hungary’s government through organisers of demonstrations using “non-electoral methods”. This outside pressure is about the free trade agreement talks between the EU and the US, a plan which should not be forced upon central Europe, Rogan insisted. He noted that at the initiative of the opposition LMP party, the Hungarian parliament will hold a full-day debate on the trade agreement in February. He said a bad trade agreement would have a similar impact on Hungary as a bad IMF loan contract would. The agreement on the other hand could be favourable if it improves Hungary’s access to US markets, he added.