Orbán: Hungarian economy crisis-proof without EU funds
Hungary’s economy “is crisis-proof even without European Union funding” and can come through the hardest of periods, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio on Friday.
Orbán said that when EU money was “most needed” after the Covid epidemic and during the current period of rising energy prices, it was not forthcoming. Nevertheless, Hungary solved both crises, he said.
Inflation was pushed down from 25 percent to around 6 percent without EU help, he said, and Hungary’s “future is bright” in terms of growth prospects this year. “We’ll be in the front row of European comparisons too,” he added.
Orbán: National Consultation ‘important’
The National Consultation public survey was an important exercise in taking joint action as well as addressing specific issues, Orbán said.
“Deep national thinking is very strong in Hungary,” Orbán said, adding that Hungarian national feeling of belonging went back a thousand years, whereas in Western Europe this was one or two hundred years.
He said more than 1.5 million people returned questionnaires “because they thought it important for the country”.
It was better, he said, to assert interests together than separately. “The consultation proves that we are still a strong country and a strong nation”, he said, adding that this message “will be heard in Brussels”.
Orbán said the EU’s reasons for not handing over Hungary’s funding was “just blah-blah” and their real issue with the country had to do with “migration, gender and war”. “But we cannot compromise on these issues,” he said. “These are more important issues … than money,” the prime minister added.
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… But please send us that EU money ASAP because otherwise we cannot afford to pay raises for our teachers and medical staff!
And … We have in excess of 8 million Hungarians of voting age. 1.5 million sent in this “consultation” (full disclosure: I did not, could not tick answers I would like to give), and then… We should take the direction of this 1.5 million? What happened to the rights of the other 6.5 million?
Great. The door is there and the rest of the membership really would not be disappointed if Hungary left the EU.
Appalling – an Insult that HIGHLIGHTS a total lack of RESPECT for millions of Hungarians.
Victor Orban – his use of PROPANGADA it’s use in this case through Radio, that is totally dismissive of Fact & Truth.
I could write a dissertation, that “rips” the current Prime Minister of Hungary apart, exhibiting from his personal position as an “insensitive” human being, his FAILINGS and then his FAILED Political Agenda, his Political & Financial/Economic “failed ” Policies, that all are encased in his FAILED dogma and ideology, that all continue to “haunt” him, following him, grow – in what as an individual he factually is, that all are of HUMILIATION,
Hungary – “crisis proof” then stating trough Covid, lack of European Union funding as a country Hungary we have SURVIVED.
Prime Minister – at what cost what you state – to millions of Hungarians, have you knowingly subjected them to a life-style, there quality of Life, that see’s them barely living, living there lives of bare survival from one to another, that see’s limited or no light into the Future ?
Inflation just one gargantuan FAILING of your Government, that sat occupied the “Top of the Tree” in country’s of the European Union, for a pro-longed period of time and REMAINS 2 or 3 still on level of Inflation, that your Government still has NO Control over.
The cost to MILLIONS of Hungarians – directed by you approved by you, Victor Orban and your Government – making wrongfully the statement of a country Crisis Proof, the lives of millions of Hungarians have you SHATTERED that in millions Destroyed – by your supposed making Hungary – our Economy being Crisis Proof.
What planet is Victor Orban on ?
NEVER in the 14 years of the Orban led Government never has the GAP been as wide, that GROWS – its Nadir an un-known between the Rich of Hungary and the Poor.
Layers in between from middle class down – have SUFFERED at the hands of Victor Orban, that returns to his statement of a Crisis Proof Hungarian Economy, that is WRONGFUL.
Orban meets sooner than later his “Waterloo” and these past days arising out of Brussels, the future of Victor Orban, it has SERIOUSLY commenced.
Orban is being EXPOSED that will grow in monolithic size and material, and he will not survive DRIVEN out of the European Union, the character he truly is representative of.