Kover meets V4 counterparts in Bratislava

Next year's European Parliamentary elections could have a larger impact on the community's future than any earlier EP votes, Laszlo Kover, Hungary's house speaker, told a meeting of his Visegrad Group counterparts in Bratislava on Thursday. In his address, Kover insisted that "the time has come for a real dispute of values concerning the European Union's future" and noted that there was currently no consensus over values that should serve as a basis for the EU's further integration. He suggested that the outcome of the vote could decide whether "Europe heads for integration or disintegration". Kover insisted that the dispute was between two "camps", one with those "promoting childlessness, having no identity or state" while the other dedicated to opposing those ideals. Hungary belonged to the latter, Kover said.