Socialist electoral manifesto calls for 'cooperative Europe free from hatred'

The Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) seeks to promote a "cooperative Europe free from hatred", which serves the interests of both European and Hungarian citizens, according to its European parliamentary manifesto published on Monday. Party leader Bertalan Toth outlined the document entitled "Homeland, Love, Europe" in a Budapest press conference. Tearing apart a government poster depicting businessman George Soros and EC President Jean-Claude Juncker, the Socialist leader said his action was a demonstration of the kind of Europe the Socialists didn't want to see. Ruling Fidesz has made some totally unfounded statements and stirred the deepest fears of the public to win EP mandates, Toth said. The Socialists, by contrast, want to see a "human-centred social Europe" which makes people's everyday lives easier, he said.