Orbán: Voting for the left means supporting war

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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the leader of the ruling Fidesz party, visited Nyíregyháza, in eastern Hungary, on the campaign trail on Thursday, where he met the city’s mayor, members of the Association of Entrepreneurs for Nyíregyháza and voters, the PM’s press chief said.

Orbán: the left makes promises, we work

Noting the developments undertaken in Nyíregyháza since 2010, Orbán said: “The left makes promises, we, on the other hand, work. They talk and we deliver. What’s more, voting for the left today means supporting war.”

Orbán said there were always those who benefitted from war, “with some even becoming very rich”. “This would also be the case today, which is why Brussels supports the war,” the prime minister said. “But the majority suffers in every war. And if this majority now raises its voice all across Europe, the worst can still be avoided. This is what’s at stake on June 9. This election will have a decisive impact on the question of war or peace,” Orbán added.

Bóka: EU’s last five years a ‘failure’

The European Union’s last five years have been a “failure”, János Bóka, the European affairs minister, said on Thursday, arguing that the bloc was facing structural problems and poor decision-making “in a well-functioning system”.

Bóka told a conference that certain poor decisions could be chalked up to the EU leadership’s “incompetence”, saying this meant that the bloc required new leadership. He added, however, that this would not be enough to solve the EU’s problems due to its structural shortcomings.

He said the EU’s institution-driven and bureaucratic functioning had taken on “a life of its own”, and European institutions now saw themselves as political players with political agendas.

The EU’s failures also extended to the matters of peace and security, competitiveness, the management of the migration crisis and agriculture, Bóka told the event organised by the XXI. Század Intézet.

Meanwhile, ruling Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch also addressed the same conference, and said the EU should go back to being “a peace project of national and European sovereignty”. It should be “united in diversity, a cooperation of equal member states, European, democratic and free”, he said.

Deutsch said that after Hungary’s 20 years of EU membership, the bloc’s problems were bigger than they appeared because its 15 member states at the time had been unprepared for the 2004 enlargement and “Europe’s reunification”, and because the Western European elite’s mindset was determined “by the centuries-old mentality that they are better, richer and more skilled than us in everything”.

But Hungary, he said, “hasn’t come to the point of ending our relationship with the EU, because now is the time to turn to it with even greater love, care, and momentum”.

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