PHOTOS show PM Orbán was key figure in first, ‘historic’ meeting of Patriots for Europe, demanded peace talks
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The European Union must change its current “war strategy” to a “strategy of peace”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Brussels on Thursday, calling for a ceasefire and peace talks.
Orbán demands ceasefire and peace talks
Speaking ahead of a working breakfast of the Patriots for Europe party group, Orbán said the EU summit later on Thursday was shaping up to be “a difficult day, with three battles”.
The first “battle” would be on the war in Ukraine, Orbán said, noting that President Volodymyr Zelensky was scheduled to present his “victory plan” to the summit. “We don’t officially know it yet, but we heard what he said yesterday in the Ukrainian parliament. That is more than frightening,” Orbán said.
Orbán said he was “sometimes the only one” to urge a change to the EU’s war strategy, “because we are losing this war right now”. He slammed the EU’s strategy, saying that the bloc “has entered this war with a badly planned, badly executed strategy based on flawed calculations”.
“We are obviously losing the war on the frontlines. So we need change… I don’t mean more war, more dangerous and longer-range weapons, but that we should replace the strategy of war with a strategy of peace. Ceasefire and peace talks,” Orbán said.
Orbán urged Macron and Scholz to start talks with the Russians
Zelensky’s words to the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday pointed in the opposite direction, Orbán said. Therefore, Orbán said he was urging German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanual Macron to start talks with the Russians, “to find a way out of this situation”.
“The battle on migration” would also be significant, Orbán said: “Many of us want to change migration regulations.”
He called it “unacceptable” that Hungary “is being penalised for protecting the EU’s borders”.
An increasing number of member states are pointing to a migration crisis, “we need change”, Orbán said.
Orbán said the EU would also try to push through economic measures “that would floor Hungarian families”, including tax hikes, scrapping the utility price caps, a pensions system reform and scrapping the 13th month pension.
“I have a duty to reject that and protect the most important elements of the current economic policy which are protecting families,” he said.
P.M. Orban started a Christian Conservative Populous Government. The aim of this type of government is to put the interest of the citizens first. This idea is now spreading over the EU. Well done P.M. Orban.
@mariavontheresa – does it not bother you that quite a few of the parties / BFFs have distinctly dubious roots? Including but not limited to national socialist, racist, antisemitic, xenophobic?