12,000 Hungarians rally for their own way forward as “EU pressures mount”
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Europe needs strong and successful nations to meet the challenges facing the bloc, the prime minister’s political director told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Sunday, highlighting the first national convention of Digital Civic Circles, attended by 12,000 supporters.
“Countless artists, sports people, scientists and public figures made a statement for cooperative thinking and conservative Christian values,” Balázs Orbán said, referring to the meeting held on Saturday.
Concerning the challenges such as the war in Ukraine, illegal migration, the green transition and Europe’s competitiveness, Orbán said “Brussels, the European Union’s liberal headquarters, has its own proposals … but those invariably fail, and more and more people in Hungary think that if we accept those, Hungary could find itself on a downward path and the situation could become worse and worse.”
He said the Digital Civic Circles movement had been launched “to find a specific Hungarian way” and come up with “a specific Hungarian approach to keep the country on an upward path”.
Concerning the government’s new National Consultation public survey, starting on 1 October, Orbán said that voters would be asked five questions on issues around the public burden, adding that the actual questions would be published in the next few days.