Hungary needed to give the European Union a powerful signal that it rejects the community taking over national competencies, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after he and his British counterpart, David Cameron, voted against Jean-Claude Juncker for European Commission president last Friday. Orbán said he would have voted the same way even if he had been alone. “It was a matter of principle,” he said, voicing his opposition against “transgressing the boundaries of the EU Treaty even if it is done with the otherwise honourable desire for consensus”. If the EU Treaty fails to provide sufficient room for manoeuvring and new rules are required, the idea should be raised and discussed, he said.
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well done Viktor Orbán for your stand on principle, just a pity Cameron was not in your camp for the same reasons, he was forced by the threat of UKIP in next years elections and the probable loss of many conservative seats,watch him [Cameron] he would stab you in the back.