Orbán: Europe treats me as a black sheep for representing freedom
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Hungary’s government is democratic and is acting in line with the will of the people, while Brussels exercises “Soviet-style leadership”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with Italian daily Libero.
Hungary is “a black sheep in the eyes of the European Union, but this isn’t a problem for us Hungarians”, Orbán said in the interview published on Friday. “We’ve always been outside the choir, even when we were behind the Iron Curtain during the time of the Soviet Union and were the first ones fighting for freedom”, he said.
Orbán, who gave the interview to Libero on the sidelines of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s memorial service earlier this week, told the paper that he wanted to use the interview to defend his friend from “attacks from the left after his death”.
Orbán said he had been friends with Berlusconi since the autumn of 1993 when the businessman reached out to him because he wanted to enter politics. He noted that Berlusconi established relationships with the political leaders he found most interesting so he could learn from them.
“At first I had my reservations, but he threw me a gourmet bait by inviting me to AC Milan’s sports centre in Milanello, promising me lunch with Van Baten and Capello,” the prime minister said.
He recalled that Berlusconi had told him that he wanted to learn from politicians who “think outside the box”.
Orbán said he and Berlusconi had shared similar opinions about the war in Ukraine and Europe, which he said had brought down Berlusconi’s government “because he refused to bow to the German and Dutch rules…”
He said anyone whose opinion on the Ukraine war differed from that of US President Joe Biden was branded a “Putinist”. Orbán added that he viewed the situation like Pope Francis, “but our word is in the minority in Europe”.
While Italy is far from the Ukrainian border “and can only feel the heat of the bombings from a distance, Hungary can burn”, Orbán said.
We should be in a position to change the European Union. We are entitled and uniquely qualified.
The institution grew from the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, https://european-union.europa.eu/principles-countries-history/history-eu_en , Hungary only joined the club in 2004. We since enjoyed all the benefits of membership including but not limited to a very significant development funds, which to a major extent fueled our GDP growth and augmented our standard of living (I challenge any doubters to verify the numbers – it is very apparent).
Hungary now looked around and found the EU seriously lacking. Give our Politicians the reins. They will make everything better!
Or … We could just leave ??? Evil club !!! Think of the benefits !!! Spoilers – the Brits are still searching.
Hit. Nail. Head. Orban is implementing measures that millions of Hungarian voters told him to. The E.U., a thoroughly unaccountable and corrupt organization that has failed every financial audit in the past 20+ years, is advocating measures demanded by the unelected Soroses, Schwabs, Gateses, Kochs, Bezoses, Rothschilds, and the like of this world.