LMP: EU institution leaders ‘in thrall to multinationals’

The green party’s spokesman, Jozsef Gal, told a press conference on Monday that LMP did not support Von der Leyen as EC president and would continue to withhold its backing after the European Parliament elections.

Von der Leyen has said the EC will investigate the flood of cheap Chinese electric cars on the European market, he noted, adding that the competition procedure was set up to protect the German and French car industry, while these companies repatriated handsome profits thanks to exploiting cheap labour and natural resources in central and eastern Europe.

European institutions, he said, were encouraging eastern parts of the EU to be places of landfill and assembly plants of EU core countries.

Gal said EU leaders should be on the side of ordinary people, not large corporations, and the EU leadership “is more than happy” to help Prime Minister Viktor Orban make Hungary into a “battery colony”. Pollution from electric car manufacture would concentrate in the east, while all the profits would stay in the west, he added.