Gyurcsany holds talks with EU officials in Brussels

Brussels (MTI) – Ferenc Gyurcsany, head of the leftist opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) party, on Thursday held talks with several European Union officials in Brussels on the current state and the future of the EU.

Gyurcsany told reporters that he met Elzbieta Bienkowska, Commissioner for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, Commissioner for Climate Action and Energy Miguel Arias Canete, Commissioner for Energy Union Maros Sefcovic and Directorate-General for Energy Dominique Ristori.

Gyurcsany said he saw two opposing trends in the current state of the EU. “On the one hand we have the European Commission, which is determined to speed up integration, and on the other hand we have three serious challenges that the EU faces, which tend to divide us: the question of Britain’s relationship with the EU, the migration crisis and the state of Greece.”

Gyurcsany said British Prime Minister David Cameron’s recent demands for reform of the bloc were “unacceptable”, insisting that the EU is “not an a la carte restaurant where one can pick and choose the things they want and then not even want to pay at the end. This is the EU. Take it or leave it.”

He said he did not understand why Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is not outraged by Cameron, who he said considers Hungarian workers in the UK “second-class citizens”.