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Fidesz strongly opposes the recent announcement of Prime Minister Gyurcsány on supporting a Russian pipeline project over the EU's attempts to diversify energy sources and transit routes.

On 15, March, Fidesz held a 200,000-strong mass commemoration of the 1848/'49 Hungarian revolution. This was the largest number of people showing up at a March, 15, event ever since the regime change.

The Fidesz Members of the European Parliament were outraged by, and categorically reject, the claims of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány that appeared in The Times newspaper on 2 March 2007.

The former PM criticized the socialist-liberal government and spoke of the "new majority", an opposition to the "new aristocracy".

The Fidesz Members of both the Hungarian and the European Parliament resorted to civil disobedience last Friday (2 February) when they dismounted the police cordon around the Hungarian Parliament.

On several occasions during recent months, Members of the EPP-ED Group have witnessed with sadness the very tense political climate in Hungary.

In an article written for Budapest Business Journal, János Horváth criticized the government's austerity policies, suggesting that an alternative solution would bring recovery.

In a recent interview to a conservative weekly, Viktor Orban criticized the Hungarian government's energy policy.

MEPs of the European People's Party - European Democrats held a hearing in Brussels on 7, December, entitled "Unprecedented Violence on the 50th Anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution".

The 21st Congress of Fidesz - Hungarian Civic Union was held in Győr on 25 November, 2006. The new slogan adopted by the party is: "Democracy without Opportunism".

Fidesz believes that the partial opening of the Hungarian labour market to future Romanian employees is not in the interest of Hungary.