PM Orbán to the German press: Brussels was “not far” from becoming the communist Moscow
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Manfred Weber, the head of the European People’s Party (EPP), “insulted the Hungarian people” in an interview published in the conservative German newspaper Welt am Sonntag on Sunday.
Orbán noted that he had agreed to back Weber’s bid to become president of the European Commission at a meeting in Budapest two years earlier, but two days later the German politician had publicly declared that he did not want to win the office with Hungarian votes.
“Here, everybody asked: what kind of person is this? Does he think we are second-class Europeans? This affair was not about me, but about insulting the Hungarian people. We lost confidence in him,” Orbán said. He said the
“Here, everybody asked: what kind of person is this? Does he think we are second-class Europeans? This affair was not about me, but about insulting the Hungarian people. We lost confidence in him,” Orbán said. He said the
problem is rather with the EPP,
as Weber wants the same kind of coalition in Brussels as that between the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin.
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“Soon one will notbe able to tell the difference between conservatives and socialists,” Orbán said, adding that the
EPP must preserve its “Christian-conservative character”.
Orbán said the European Parliament, which intervened in the process of advancing the EU budget and recovery, “vastly overestimates its role”. He said the EP “thinks it has greater legitimacy than national parliaments”, which is “a big mistake”.
“We want to be part of a strong union of nation states that complies with the Treaties,” Orbán said. He said Brussels was “not far” from becoming Moscow, drawing a comparison between the rule of law mechanism, “without objective criteria”, that European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova wanted to introduce and the ideological directives issued by the central committee in Moscow under communism.
Orbán said the
“We want to be part of a strong union of nation states that complies with the Treaties,” Orbán said. He said Brussels was “not far” from becoming Moscow, drawing a comparison between the rule of law mechanism, “without objective criteria”, that European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova wanted to introduce and the ideological directives issued by the central committee in Moscow under communism.
Orbán said the
“real debate” is about family policy, migration policy and cultural issues.
To read the interview in full, in German, visit: https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article222863908/Viktor-Orban-Haelt-uns-Manfred-Weber-fuer-Europaeer-zweiter-Klasse.html?cid=onsite.onsitesearch
To read the interview in full, in German, visit: https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article222863908/Viktor-Orban-Haelt-uns-Manfred-Weber-fuer-Europaeer-zweiter-Klasse.html?cid=onsite.onsitesearch
Source: MTI
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3 Comments
Brussels…. Soros…. Brussels….. Soros….. Brussels…. Soros….
Bla… bla…. bla….
V.O. the Caveman.
Forcing an ideologi on to people no matter what ideologi it concern is a fool´s errand.
V.O. History
This is nonsense. Orban is one of the best politicians in the EU and the only one standing between democracy and an EU socialist dictatorship.