Orbán: Hungarians ‘champions of survival’
Orbán said western Europe had given up on the vitality that lay behind the “greatness” and success it enjoyed for the past thousand years, the “spiritual depth of life”, the happiness afforded by marriage and having offspring and the “spiritual energy of national cultures”.
“In other words, western Europe has given up on Christian Europe,” Orbán said. “Instead it’s experimenting with a godless cosmos, with rainbowing families, with migration and with open societies.”
Meanwhile, the nations of central Europe honour their ancient life instincts, the liberating power of Christianity, respect for work, national pride and their responsibility for their children and parents, he said.
“This is why we protect our borders and leave our homeland to our own children instead of migrants.”
Orbán said the West had lost its appeal to central Europeans, while “they don’t consider central Europe a desirable world either”.
Europe must find a way forward in which neither half forces its way of life and worldview onto the other, he said, adding that this was “the alpha and omega” of European unity today.
He said the newly-inaugurated memorial was a call, even an urgent cry to central European nations that envision their life in a reinvented Christian world that they must find a path to cooperation and find a way forward that guarantees their own national independence and an alliance among central European nations while also contributing to European unity.
“For this, it must be made clear that central Europe must be shaped by central Europeans,” the prime minister said.
Leaving it to foreigners to shape the life of central Europe will only lead to divisions, hostilities and subservience, he added. “It will allow others to reap the benefits of our valuable labour and world-class intellectual accomplishments and use it to increase their own power,” Orbán warned.
He said it had been centuries since central European countries last had as good a chance as they do now to shape their own fates.
Hungarians must now prepare to cooperate and remind their friends that “the stars won’t be aligned in our favour forever”, he said.
Orbán said the memorial symbolised that Hungarians were the heirs to “everything our ancestors built in the Carpathian Basin and contributed to humanity in the world of culture, science, the economy and sport”.
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Source: MTI