Austria’s decision of imposing a cap on the number of asylum-seekers was “a capitulation of dogmatic thinking to reality and common sense”, according to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Europe cannot take in enormous masses of foreigners without constraints and controls, the Prime Minister stressed in his regular Friday interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió.
The Hungarian leader also confirmed his support for the Polish government, arguing that the country’s cabinet did nothing the European Union should be critical of. “Brussels is irritated by the existence of strong nation-states”, he said.
The Prime Minister also revealed that the government is already working on the 2017 state budget, to be adopted in the first half of the running year. He signalled that supporting families will remain the priority and the cabinet will seek to cut public debt also in real terms and not only in comparison to economic performance. The cabinet will devote a “large share” of broadening economic opportunities to strengthen Hungarian families and enable them to set up a home.
Mr. Orbán also spoke of Budapest taxi drivers’ four-day anti-Uber demonstration, confirming that the government believes that taxi drivers are right in demanding clear regulation of the industry that applies to all.
via mandiner.hu
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