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On Friday morning, the Hungarian Prime Minister gave an interview to Kossuth Radio, in which he touched on the issues of illegal immigration and the Russian-Ukrainian war, among others. According to Mr. Orbán, Hungary has been telling the whole of Europe and the Germans since 2015, that migration is dangerous and must be fought against.
On the Russian-Ukrainian war, Viktor Orbán said that the Hungarian government has predicted and has prepared for the fact that the war would not be prolonged, but that a new US president would come and he would create peace. Hungary’s stance was worth sticking to, emphasized the Prime Minister, adding that the voice of peace in the Western world is now called Donald Trump. He said that
on six issues – peace, migration, green issues, gender, family, and Christianity – Western European thinking is undergoing a very rapid change. Europe is resisting, but Hungary has always thought what US President Donald Trump is now saying.
“For us it is a confirmation, but for most European countries it is a major change,” he said.
As an example, he cited that in Western Europe, they teach that supporting migrants is good and opposing migration is bad, but now America has come along and says that migration is bad and that a border protection policy that stops migration is good.
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The Prime Minister pointed out that the same was true for green issues. It is good if the world is cleaner, healthier and greener, but this cannot be achieved at the expense of economic rationality, which means that it is good if green policy is pursued alongside economic life, he explained.
Furthermore, it used to be said that the binary world is over, where the world is made up of men and women and there are all kinds of in-between transitional, optional statuses, he said, recalling that those who opposed it were considered medieval, backward, retrograde. He added that now Americans say man is either male or female, that is the right position, and the other is unnatural.
Mr. Orbán emphasized that the traditional family had been portrayed as a form of coexistence left over from the past, and other configurations were being promoted. Now the Americans are saying that the traditional family is good, but we should be wary of anything that deviates from it.
He said that along with the family, Christianity was constantly mocked, and now the US president is saying that faith is good, community of faith is good, Christianity is a precious tradition.
He also pointed out that Hungary has lost 6.5 billion euros a year through sanctions, 20 billion euros in total, and if the US President comes and brings peace, Russia is expected to be reintegrated into the world economy, the European security system, and even the European energy and economic system. This step will give a huge boost to the Hungarian economy, “we will gain a lot from peace,” he underlined.
On migration, he remarked that Hungary has been telling the whole of Europe and the Germans since 2015, that migration is dangerous and must be fought against. The Prime Minister also commented on Thursday’s shocking car ramming terror attack in Germany, saying that “often people are not happy to be right, this is one of those situations.” According to Orbán, Hungary has known from the very first moment that migration is a threat against which we must defend ourselves. “What we are happy about is that we stayed out of it,” he stressed, adding that Hungary was not infected by this “European disease.”
@PM_ViktorOrban on Kossuth Radio: Since 2015, we warned Europe: mass migration won’t end well. Now, after 9 million arrivals, terrorism, rising crime, and economic strain, reality has set in. Hungary was mocked for resisting—but time has proven us right. pic.twitter.com/yo1alFLBRq
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He said that the Soros plan was actually working, with nine million migrants arriving in Europe in the last nine years, with
European leaders, politicians, people smugglers, criminals, NGOs and illegal networks bringing in “foreigners who do not belong here, who in most cases do not come here for peaceful purposes, who do not want to work here but rather to live off our money.”
He pointed out that for a long time Germans claimed that good things would come of it, but terrorism and violence have emerged in Europe, “public security is cracking up,” and the economic burden is becoming unbearable. He also recalled that in Germany, the issue of migration also raises a democratic problem, because some 70 percent of Germans want a tougher immigration policy, but elected leaders rejected this in a parliamentary debate.
The Prime Minister said that although the press sees the rise of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) as a rise of the far right, it would be good for Hungary if the economic, foreign, and migration policies they advocate were implemented.
The AfD and its co-chair Alice Weidel are the future, which is why he received her in Budapest recently, he emphasized.
Regarding the future of the European Union, Orbán stressed that if the Germans and the French do not come up with something and set the EU on a new course, its days are numbered. According to him, the European Union has a positive mission, and if it were well organized, it would serve the interests of the Member States well.
He stressed that if two things are not done urgently, the European Union is finished. The first is that energy prices must be reduced at all costs. “If a European company pays two or three times more for electricity and four or five times more for gas than its competitors in China or America, it will be an economy that will go bust,” he pointed out.
The second thing that needs to change, he added, is the creation of a European capital market. Global rivals are encouraging European capital to leave Europe and invest elsewhere. Together with regulators and temptation, they are persuading the big European factories and capital owners not to develop in Europe, not to continue their work here, but to do it somewhere else, for example in America. This is why the German car industry, for example, is in huge trouble, Mr. Orbán underlined.
The way to defend ourselves against this is to make a better offer to European capital and big European companies than what they get from America, China, and other parts of the world. To do this, we need a single capital market.”
Mr. Orbán also said that we must break out of European isolation and operate a foreign economy based on connectivity and relationships. He stressed that contrary to what has been customary for centuries, “the economic future of the world is not being written in Europe,” but in Asia, the Arab world, the emerging countries, and in the event of Donald Trump’s success, in the United States. He said that the Hungarian economy is able to provide people with such a standard of living because it can sell the products it produces here, “we have to produce and trade and sell,” and the best way to do that is not with Europe but with other parts of the world.
Regarding domestic politics, the Prime Minister noted that the pension system is under constant attack from Brussels.”
We are under constant pressure, partly from experts and partly from Brussels bureaucrats, to give up the 13th month pension, to restructure it, to cut it, to make it less favorable for Hungarian pensioners. The Hungarian government is resisting this,”
he emphasized. He added that the question of pensions is not simply a question of money, but a question of appreciation and recognition.
On the cost of utility bills, Orbán argued that efforts by Brussels to raise the cost of utilities must be curbed. He said that according to a recent report, Brussels is demanding that energy suppliers should be free to set their prices, which would create an outrage here. He pointed out that if we let energy suppliers charge people whatever prices they wanted, today families’ utility bills would be at least one and a half times higher, and perhaps even twice as high. He noted that currently, Hungarian families pay the lowest utility bills in the European Union.
Via MTI, Featured photo via MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Benko Vivien Cher
