G. whereas the Hungarian Government announced on 24 April 2015 the launch of a national consultation on immigration, publishing a questionnaire of 12 questions to be addressed to every Hungarian citizen over the age of 18, and whereas most of the questions are of a clearly leading and rhetorical nature, establishing a biased and direct link between migratory phenomena and security threats; H. whereas Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made similar suggestions back in 2002 and again declared in a speech made in Pécs on 28 April 2015 that the question of the death penalty should be put back on the agenda in Hungary, and whereas he reiterated similar statements on 1 May 2015 during an interview on national public radio, adding that the decision to reintroduce the death penalty should fall under the sole competence of the Member States; whereas the debate initiated on the death penalty is dangerous and damaging; I. whereas framing the ‘national consultation’ on migration in the context of terrorism is malicious and wrong and will feed prejudice, since migrants will be perceived as a threat instead of as an opportunity; J. whereas during the exchange of views in the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs the majority of the political groups shared the view that the reintroduction of the death penalty and the questions asked in the public consultation were unacceptable; K. whereas, in its statement presented at the plenary debate held in the European Parliament on 19 May 2015 on the situation in Hungary, the Presidency of the Council of the European Union declared that the Council had not discussed the situation in Hungary and therefore not adopted any formal position on that matter; L. whereas efforts to address the current situation in Hungary should not aim to single out a particular Member State or government but fulfil a collective obligation on all the EU institutions, and in particular the Commission, as guardian of the Treaties, to ensure the application of, and compliance with, the Treaties and the Charter across the Union and in every Member State; 1. Insists that the death penalty is incompatible with the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights on which the Union is founded, and that any Member State reintroducing the death penalty would therefore be in violation of the Treaties and of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; recalls that a serious breach by a Member State of the values referred to in Article 2 TEU would trigger the ‘Article 7’ procedure; 2. Strongly condemns the repeated statements made by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán instigating a debate on a potential re-establishment of the death penalty in Hungary, thus institutionalising and fuelling a concept which is in blatant breach of the values on which the Union is founded; deplores the fact that a Member State’s head of government is deliberately questioning the principle of respect for human dignity and human rights by opening up such a discussion, mainly motivated by internal political purposes; 3. Denounces in the strongest terms the public consultation on migration initiated by the