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Appeal to the European Institutions Felhívás az európai intézményekhez
Hands off the Hungarian Philosophers!
(January 7, 2011)
Issued by - Kibocsátók:
Sk-slovenčinaPl-polski iprotest.hu@gmail.com
Attila Ara-Kovács Stephan Bickhardt Kathrin Bickhardt-Schulz Marianne Birthler Martin Böttger Martin Bútora Zora Bútorová György Dalos Gábor Demszky Christian Dietrich Frank Ebert Smaranda Enache Zsuzsa Gáspár Konstanty Gebert Joachim Goertz Árpád Göncz Éva Cs. Gyimesi
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Christian Halbrock Miklós Haraszti Katrin Hattenhauer Václav Havel Gerold Hildebrand Róza Hodosán Milan Horáček Dorothea Höck Péter Hunčik Christian Jansen Christoph Kaehler Agneša Kalinová Gisela Kallenbach Wojciech Kamiński
Dear Friends,
We the undersigned are members and supporters of the democratic movements that fought against the Communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe -- fought for our nations to join the community of European democracies. We can never forget the risk of losing basic rights to power-hungry governments. This time, the destruction of democracy's guarantees is enfolding right before the eyes of the European Union, the very alliance founded to ensure that respect for our common values remains indivisible. Today, the goal of a Europe united in liberty is in grave danger. What the European Union meant to prevent, and what many thought to be impossible, has now materialized: a full-fledged illiberal democracy inside its own borders -- in Hungary, an EU member state since 2004. Just 20 years after communism collapsed, Hungary's government, though elected democratically, is misusing its legislative majority to methodically dismantle democracy's checks and balances, to remove constitutional constraints, and to subordinate to the will of the ruling party all branches of power, independent institutions, and the media. We turn to the European Parliament, the European Commission, and the European Council, as well as to all European governments and political parties that care for Europe's true unity. We call on you to take resolute action to keep our Europe of democracy on track! It is untenable that binding EU criteria only apply to the economy of member states. It is indefensible that we set benchmarks of compliance with democratic values only until a nation joins the Union, but stand baffled when those values are blatantly disregarded in a member state. Our hard-won freedoms need to be made accountable! There exist no common European democratic values if they are not served by a common European law. We ask the European Institutions not to repeat the mistake that was committed in Hungary: respect for our common values must not be jeopardized for the sake of party political fights or the mistaken prestige of the rotating European Presidency. Conservatives, Social Democrats, Liberals and Greens must unite, just as we the undersigned have, in developing a forward-looking defence against the demolition of Europe's shared democracy.
László Kasza
http://www.iprotest.hu/
18.07.2011