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Orbán: Visegrád Group’s success behind ‘Brussels attacks’
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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Slovak commercial television TA3 on Sunday that the reason why he was being targeted by Brussels was because he stands firmly by the policies of the Hungarian government and the Visegrád Group, which he said were more successful than those of western Europe.
“Some of the criticisms are levelled at me not because of Hungary, but because of the V4,” Orbán said in a discussion with his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini. “They’re attacking us because we’re successful. Let’s not forget that there’s also competition within the European Union,” the prime minister added.
“There are some who are hurt by central Europe’s rapid progress.”
Orbán said the V4 would have to withstand the pressure coming from Brussels, while western Europe should accept that the V4 are currently the engine of the EU economy without whom the bloc would not be experiencing any economic growth.
Pellegrini said that time had vindicated the V4’s solutions to the issue of migration. Western Europe “is also finally starting to wake up and is adopting parts of the V4 positions”, he said.
Orbán and Pellegrini underlined the importance of protecting the EU’s external Schengen borders.