The Daily Telegraph publishes interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

The conservative British daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph has published an interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Peter Foster, the newspaper’s Europe Editor, interviewed the Hungarian prime minister during his recent visit to London. The interview was published in the online edition of the newspaper on Saturday morning.

In answer to a question concerning the outcome of the US presidential election, Mr. Orbán said that the victory of Republican candidate Donald Trump means that reality has broken through ideology.

Mr. Orbán told the British newspaper that “on a philosophical-ideological level our feeling is that we are living in a ‘liberal non-democracy’ system in the Western world, and it’s over. That ideology which created its own language of political correctness – created a grey, uniform approach to all the questions – now it is over”.

The journalist repeated an earlier statement by Mr. Orbán, in which he had said that the election of Mr. Trump would be good for Hungary and good for Europe. When asked whether he still holds this opinion, the Prime Minister said that he feels this more strongly than ever.

He added that Mr. Trump takes a very clear stand against illegal immigration.

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“If well-settled states don’t make clear where the limits are and what kind of practices are acceptable, and which are not, that could destabilise the Western world, and we don’t need that”, the Prime Minister said, adding that he thinks that in this respect Donald Trump is better for Hungary and better for Europe.

Responding to the observation that EU leaders have accused him of not subscribing to the values of the European Union, Mr. Orbán replied that the question is how one defines European values.

“If you define European values as an alliance of sovereign states, then we are very much strengthening the values of the European Union, because law and order is a European value – law and order belonging to sovereign states – and this is the precondition of fulfilling international requirements and duties – like Schengen”, he said.