Bertalan Tóth, the head and parliamentary group leader of the Socialist Party, reaffirmed his party’s commitment to the European Union
in Sopron. “We want to remain members of a European community whose core values we believe in, and do not want to belong to a community [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán wants to evolve and lead,” Tóth told a press conference at the Austrian-Hungarian border, marking the anniversary of Hungary’s opening of its western borders at the end of the Communist era. Standing at the site where then foreign ministers Gyula Horn of
Hungary and Alois Mock of Austria cut the border fence between the countries in 1989, Tóth said that “the Socialists believe in Gyula Horn’s legacy”, in a fair Hungary and European values, in openness and cooperation. “We want a democratic, socially sensitive European Union that respects human rights,” he said.