EP - Hungarian, international MEPs hold conference in Brussels on freedom

The Brussels representative office of the Foundation for a Civic Hungary has organised a conference dubbed Freedom at which conservative and Christian Democrat members of the European Parliament exchanged their opinion in Brussels on Tuesday. Tamas Deutsch, the head of ruling Fidesz's EP delegation, said that Hungarians regard freedom as the most important value. "We will protect this freedom the same way we protected it over the past one thousand years," Deutsch said. Over history, "others always wanted to tell us and force upon us how we should live, what religion we should follow, what form of state we should have, what language we should learn as a mandatory second language and what sort of relations we should maintain with other nations," he added.