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Viktor Orbán gave an interview to Tv2 television channel’s Tények program over the weekend, where he touched on the war, the Trump-Zelenskyy meeting, and domestic tax cuts. The Prime Minister said that Europeans want to “continue the war,” but with the United States on Hungary’s side, we are in the majority and we are stronger, reports Magyar Nemzet.
“Two things are linked: how we will live here this year and in the years to come, and how world politics and the fate of war and peace will develop. These are two closely related things. What happened yesterday, we have to follow it not as spectators, but as people involved. What we saw yesterday was bad news, it was a bad thing,” the Prime Minister said of the meeting between Trump and Zelenskyy.
“We are talking about the future and war, the future of Hungary and Europe, and peace in Europe and Hungary.
And again, I see an American president who has surprised the world by doing what he promises. The whole world is surprised because he is taking steps that nobody expected, even though he said he would.
For example, on the issue of peace, he predicted that he would bring peace by any means necessary,” Mr. Orbán highlighted, adding that Donald Trump is doing this, and the Ukrainian president does not want what the Americans are offering, while Ukraine is exhausted.
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On Ukraine, Viktor Orbán pointed out that there are many orphans and widows in the country, there is terrible material destruction, millions of people are fleeing, Ukraine is essentially on life support. “The Europeans want to continue the war. There are only two countries in Europe that want peace, the Vatican and Hungary. Now the United States has joined us, we are in the majority and we are stronger, but in the Western world the pro-war people have been in the majority all along, and now in Brussels the pro-war people are still in the majority.”
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The Prime Minister also said that for Hungary, peace is not only a necessity from a Christian human point of view, but also from an economic point of view. If there is no peace, Hungary will not be successful in 2025, or 2026.
“The basic plan is to help families. After all, inflation and the three difficult years of war that we have just come through have hit families the hardest, families with children.
Now that we have economic growth, we have put together a 21-point economic plan, we can get started, and this will generate the money to double the tax benefit after children.
This is not a small thing, it means that those with two children will receive a tax credit of, say, 80,000 forints (200 euros), and those with three children somewhere in the region of 200,000 forints (500 euros). And this will certainly be done, because it is already a law,” the Prime Minister emphasized. He also reiterated that mothers under 30 with at least one child already pay no personal income tax.
“So this means that the ladies and girls who will become wives and later mothers have already been born and will live their lives in Hungary without paying a single forint of personal income tax for the rest of their lives, and that is fine, they are taking on something, which requires a serious effort, it is a burden, it is a sweet burden, but it is a serious burden, because you have to give birth to those children, you have to bring them up, you have to make them into decent human beings, and you have to worry about them, you are always worried about your children as long as you are alive, so mothers are taking on a serious task.”
On the issue of high prices, the Prime Minister said that prices alone do not increase, it is necessary to understand who is raising them and why, and where the money is going.
“If you take a look at the real world, you will see that there are farmers who are here to keep you and make you an industry. They get a purchase price of 200 forints (0.49 euros) because they bring their products to the shop, where it is sold for 600 forints (1.49 euros). It is quite obvious that there are strong players in the economy who are working with forces that are not acceptable because they are destroying families and pensioners,” he said. He added: “We will protect families with tax cuts and wage increases in the way we can, but we have to protect pensioners with special specific tools, which is why we have chosen a method, a VAT rebate method.”
The Prime Minister stressed that they must try to stop, prevent, or control price increases, and that is why they must negotiate with traders. “If the traders raise prices to the current rate, it will destroy families and then the government will have to intervene. Then there could be a mandatory price freeze, that is, a price cap.”
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Orbán also spoke about the US media funding scandal. He said he has been in politics, including international politics, for 40 years and had never seen anything like it. “It is billions of dollars from the US budget being transferred to foundations and various forms of funding for all sorts of fictitious reasons, and then spread around the world and given to people who represent the depth, the ethos, the agenda, and the specific interests that the Americans demand, and who get money for that. I have never seen anything like it…they were bought.”
He went on to say that
journalists did not write their own opinion, they were paid to write a certain opinion, or NGOs who were not enthusiastic to represent an important cause, but were paid money to be enthusiastic. This is an influence on the life of another country that is unacceptable.”
Orbán stressed that the Hungarian people will decide what they are enthusiastic about, what they are not, what they believe, what they do not believe, whom they believe, whom they do not believe. “This cannot be manipulated, and using money to drag a country’s public opinion like a puppet on a string is unacceptable. A self-respecting country cannot accept such interference in its own freedom and sovereignty.”
The government has recently announced an even stronger crackdown on drug use, with a hunt against drug traffickers starting on March 1. The Prime Minister said that in Western Europe and in some American states, the trend has been to legalize the use of drugs and by extension, the trade. He emphasized that this must be stopped and it must be made clear to the world that Hungary is a country where the use, distribution, and promotion of drugs will never be legalized.
A drug trafficker is a man who makes money for himself by making our children, somebody else’s child, a wreck and eventually killing them.
That is what he does for a living, and that is what he makes money off of. I think it is unacceptable. In Hungary we have had strict rules against drug trafficking, but now we are going to tighten them radically and we are going to put much more energy into the investigation of drug trafficking,” the Prime Minister concluded.
Via Magyar Nemzet, Featured photo via MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Benko Vivien Cher