PM Orbán warns of ‘extra dangerous time’ for Hungary – Here’s why
Hungarians’ interest lies in making friends and maintaining good relations with the major global powers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with PragerU published on Wednesday.
Orbán said the two reasons why Hungary was living in an “extra dangerous time” were the war between Russia and Ukraine and Brussels’s aspirations of building “a United States of Europe”.
“Now in Brussels, they would like to build up a United States of Europe. A kind of empire,” Orbán said. “Some countries love it, some countries don’t. We belong to the sovereigntists, we don’t like it. We don’t like the Brusselian centralised bureaucracy … which defines how we have to live here in Hungary. So we are sovereigntists and freedom fighters.”
The prime minister said the war was not being fought just between Ukraine and Russia, but was a “proxy war of the West with Russia”, noting that Hungary is part of the West.
He emphasised that he had a good relationship with US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I serve the interests of the country. I would not like to join one bloc of countries,” he said. “I would like to maintain the sovereign room for manoeuvring of our foreign policy and to maintain the national sovereignty of this country.”
Criticising the current state of the European Union and its aspirations, Orbán said the EU should be serving its member states because “the European Union is not about Brussels and the European institutions. The European Union is about the member states, the sovereign member states.”
Concerning the EU-US trade deal, Orbán said that “if you have a lightweight negotiator on one side and a heavyweight deal maker on the other side, you can see the outcome obviously, and of course, we lost.”
But Orbán added that the EU was facing even greater challenges, arguing that the European Commission president had not had the authority to make a deal on the bloc buying 750 billion euros’ worth of energy from the US or a pledge to invest a further 600 billion euros in the US.
He also said the “secret chapter” of the agreement on the US selling weapons to Ukraine that will be paid for by the EU was “the most important and most dangerous point”.
Orbán said that if the US wanted to make a deal on energy, investments and weapons, “it’s better to go to the member states, not to Brussels.” To view the full interview, visit this link.
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