Orbán: Spiritual and political differences mounting between central Europe and western Europeans

Whereas Hungarians have a mission to protect the Carpathian Basin, the West has lost sight of its own mission, according to the text of a speech Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave recently.

Noting that Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies at Oxford University, had criticised the Hungarian government for ideas he called dangerous for the EU, Orbán insisted there were indeed cultural, spiritual and political differences mounting between central Europe and western Europeans.

In a speech last Thursday at Budapest’s Mathias Corvinus Collegium, Orbán said the West had bestrode the globe for 400 years with a sense of exceptionalism and a mission which gave it inspiration and self-confidence. But at the start of the 21st century Western civilisation had started to confront serious challenges.

A “woke” neo-Marxism, he said, was taking hold in America, while Europe was beset by a Muslim demographic, political and economic tide, creating a new state of affairs in France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Austria. The West, said Orbán, was not up to the task of providing adequate political solutions to such problems.

In the English-language post available here, Orban wrote:

“In my view, there is a Central European cultural, intellectual and political entity that is growing more and more different from Western Europe; but this is not hazardous, it is not a threat. It is, in fact, a blessing for the European Union and even Western Europe.”

As we wrote last week, Orbán met Polish President Andrzej Duda in Budapest, and said that Hungary supported Poland amid “the attack from Brussels”, read details HERE.

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Source: MTI

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4 Comments

István says:

14/09/2021 at 14:33

Orbán is right.
Never before voted for Fidesz but this time is is Fidesz.
Maria Von Theresa says:

14/09/2021 at 19:37

Foreign dictatorship, whether from Moscow, Vienna or Brussels is equally unacceptable. It is up to the Hungarian people and only the Hungarian people to chose their government. The world should take a lesson from Afghanistan, NATO and US tried to change the type of government, after trillions of dollars and thousands of lives the Taliban is back and Sharia law was reestablished.
Adelle says:

15/09/2021 at 05:41

MVT is right. EU is a forced, artificial, sad try to emulate the United States of America. And one of the biggest mistake they have made is that they do not understand the One Nation Under God component. Hungary understands that. The EU is more like the old Soviet Union…with its Command Economy. Also wealth redistribution.. taking money from this group, shifting it over to others, raising taxes, taxing gasoline…sigh… Hoping more and more EU countries wake up and follow Brexit. I will also be a first time FIDESZ voter like Istvan. Note that the current democrat dictatorship in the US is also in a hurry to destroy the country, the nation and a constitution that has worked for 200+ years. God help us all.
István says:

15/09/2021 at 10:02

President Trump is the greatest President America ever had.
Xí’s lapdog senile Joe Biden will never be a legitimate President.
Votes must be earned, NOT STOLEN