Orbán: Brussels wants to topple the Hungarian government
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European People’s Party leader Manfred Weber are seeking to “topple the sovereigntist Hungarian government” and replace it with a “Brussels-style administration”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio in an interview broadcast on Friday.
Referring to the recent debate in the European Parliament before which he also briefed MEPs and EU officials about Hungary’s EU presidency, Orbán said contributors had “ignored the facts, were full of hate, and unbothered about Europe and the European people”. The debate, he added, was directed towards toppling the Hungarian government and replacing it with Klára Dobrev of the European Socialists, while the EPP wanted the Tisza Party and its leader, Péter Magyar, in the government.
Orbán said he had always believed that this was the goal of the two European leaders, but addressing it so blatantly instead of dealing with European affairs had been “unusual”. It was made clear they wanted this coalition, “and the marriage took place before our eyes”, he said. Both were ready to fulfil Brussels’ demands for Hungary to get involved in the war in Ukraine and back its migration policy, which would “let migrants in”, scrap family and child protection laws, and also enter economic and trade wars.
“Brussels wants to install a socialist and a people’s party representative in the Hungarian government to promote its chief aims, which are exactly what causes conflicts between Hungary and Brussels. Instead of sovereigntist Hungarian politics, we’ll have a Brussels government,” he said. The prime minister praised Hungary’s “very high-quality” presidency programme, adding that “very good staff” were working under the leadership of the minister for EU affairs János Bóka.
A high-quality debate about “why the European economy is in trouble, why the Americans and the Chinese are overtaking Europe … the problem with migrants and green transition” could have been had, except that contributors were “lusting after blood” and were uninterested in having a meaningful debate about Europe’s “biggest challenges”. “When ten people come at you, it’s rock and roll, so it was rock and roll,” he said.
Orbán spoke about a “rough” situation as Hungarians were “polite, generous, well-mannered”, but he was afraid that if he carried on behaving like a gentleman they would “see us as fools”. The prime minister said Hungarian viewers, who may have a completely different picture of Europe, may have found the debate shocking. “We thought there were intelligent people there,” he said, and while there were some “interesting figures” among the MEPs, it had been assumed that they nevertheless represented some kind of European standard.
Orbán added that the debate had been “a culture shock” for him, too. Brussels, he added, would recognise that they were “losing this battle”, and the public and facts “do not support this type of Brussels intervention”. “Our greatest allies are reality and the public…” “[L]et’s return to normal European politics and leave member states alone,” he said. “Leave Hungary alone!” The prime minister noted that one Hungarian EU presidency proposal was a series of summits on border protection and migration similar to those devoted to the consequences of the 2008 financial crisis, at first informal and then institutionalised. This forum would operate without input from the EC.
Frontex, he said, “which now operates like a tourist company transporting migrants inland”, should be subordinated to this body. “Europe is turning,” he said. “Give it just a bit more time and they will adopt an anti-migration political policy, as people in western Europe are far from happy about what’s going on in terms of migration, while governments are falling into migration failure.”
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“We are under attack!” Where have we heard this, before?
And … Let´s be honest. There are very few people (including politicians) who appreciate our Politicians as “polite, generous, well-mannered”. Everybody is dead wrong – except for our Politicians, of course. The adults in the room!
Apparently so do a lot of Hungarians…