Orbán’s Easter message: Migration in focus of conflicts

Budapest (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said that migration stands in the focal point of current conflicts, adding that if the security of Hungarian people is at stake, there is no room for compromise.

“What is going on in Hungary is a dress rehearsal for next year’s election campaign. This is what stirred up still water and filled Easter Week with uproar,” Orbán told Vasárnapi Ujsag, a Sunday morning programme of public Kossuth Radio, referring to a series of demonstrations over the past few days.

The prime minister called it completely understandable that US billionaire George Soros’s “international and domestic networks” are protesting against the recent amendment to the higher education law. It is still to be understood, however, why Hungarian academics, scholars and professors take a stand for Soros keeping his privileges instead of other universities in Hungary getting the same rights as the Central European University enjoys, he said.

Orbán called the protests “a peripheral theatre of war” of a crucial conflict, which concerns the ethnic mix of Europe.

The Hungarian branches of international NGO networks conceive Europe as a continent letting in foreign ethnicities from other parts of Europe, he said.

An unimpeded immigration of those aspiring for a European standard of living would carry a risk of terrorism and deteriorating public security, and imply the emergence of parallel Muslim and Christian societies in the European countries.

Orbán said “Soros’s network” is angry with Hungary because it has halted the wave of migrants which they had proven in theory to be unstoppable.