In Europe, Sarkozy Told His Native Hungary Audience, "There Are Not Those Who Have the Right to Speak and Those Who Have But the Right to Keep Quiet"

Not many mainstream outlets (in France or abroad) seem to have reported on it (hm! I wonder why that would be…), but on a trip back to his native Hungary (or to his father's native Hungary), Nicolas Sarkozy said he had come to

lever un malentendu. Il n'y a pas, pour la France, une vieille Europe et une nouvelle Europe. Il n'y a pas dans mon esprit, des pays majeurs et des pays mineurs. Pour tout dire, il n'y a pas ceux qui ont droit à la parole et ceux qui n'ont que le droit de se taire. Il y a des pays égaux en droits et en devoirs.