The MEP, taking the floor during the debate on racism, said that racism is a very «current topic, as it was last week and not 500 years ago, that Donald Trump declared Africa and other countries  «shit holes». Before Stelios Kouloglou another MEP, this time EPP’s Lazlo Tokes, from Hungary, had taken the floor commenting on legislating freedom of religion in Transylvania 450 years ago, linking this event with a recent one in Romania, asking for a condemnation of «hatred speech against the ethnic minority of Hungarians in Romania, which recalled the Nazi and communistic eras».