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.