Orbán: Fidesz secures ‘greatest win even when everyone was against us’
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, speaking to supporters as the results of Sunday’s election came in, declared that ruling Fidesz had secured its greatest victory even when “great international forces” had mobilised against it.
All the money international organisations provided to the Hungarian opposition was “money down the drain”, he said. Referring to financier George Soros, Orbán said “the Hungarian left is Uncle Gyuri’s worst investment; they have done nothing but take money for twelve years.”
“We’ve protected Hungary’s peace and security,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a victory speech after his Fidesz-led alliance secured a fourth successive term in Sunday’s election. “We’ve protected Hungary’s independence and freedom; we’ve protected its peace and security,” Orban said. Referring to the referendum on child protection, he added: “Although the final results are not known yet, I trust we’ve also protected our children and families.”
Addressing supporters at the Bálna Centre on the Pest side of the River Danube, the site where Fidesz awaited the results, Orbán said:
“The whole world could see here in Budapest tonight that Christian Democratic policies, conservative civic policies and patriotic policies have won.”
“We’re sending the message to Europe that this is not the past, this is the future,” he said. “This will be our shared European future.” “The whole world can see that Hungarians love their country,” he added. “We who have won tonight commit to always putting Hungary first,” Orbán said.
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Orbán: liberal world press, George Soros and Brussels bureaucrats are the opponents
If the left wing wins Sunday’s general election, it will give the green light to weapons deliveries to Ukraine the next day, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on the campaign trail on Friday.
Orbán said the opposition also backed proposals to cut off Russian gas and oil supplies. Campaigning in Székesfehérvár, in central Hungary, he accused the opposition of having “already struck a deal with the Ukrainians”.
Furthermore, Orbán insisted the opposition was widely blamed for foul play, but
the scale of their election fraud this time, he added, was “unprecedented”.
He charged the opposition with collecting the personal data of millions of Hungarians illegally and holding it abroad, before returning it to Hungary and bombarding Hungarians with unsolicited messages. “This amounts to obvious and unambiguous election fraud,” he said. “Nevertheless, we must tackle this obstacle course and win the election,” Orban added.
Referring to the October 23 pro-government Peace March, the prime minister said: “Our strongest weapon lies in cooperation and our reliance on one another; this is our true hinterland.” “If we fight together we can break through the thickest wall,” he said,
listing Fidesz opponents as “the liberal world press, all Uncle Gyuri’s [George Soros] activists and the plethora of Brussels bureaucrats.”
The prime minister said that Fidesz had initially focused its campaign on the question of “whether Hungary should return to the failed past or continue the work started twelve years ago.” He said the path to victory was to convince the public that
Ferenc Gyurcsány, the former Socialist prime minister, was “still the boss and that our opponents haven’t changed”.
“But a war broke out in the meantime and changed everything, including our campaign,” Orbán said. The issue then became making a choice between “war and peace”, the prime minister said, adding he believed that everybody in Hungary was “on the side of peace”, irrespective of their party affiliation.
Everyone, he said, would see it as a war between two other nations.
“And since we are Hungarians, our job is to stay out of it,”
he said, adding that “only the national side” could guarantee this. “The left wing believes that Ukraine is fighting our war, which is wrong,” he said. “This is not our war; we cannot win anything, but we could lose everything,” Orbán said, adding that the only way for Hungary to stay out of the war was by not sending weapons or troops to Ukraine, and by not allowing the transit of weapons across the country’s territory.
He said the risks associated with the ongoing war in Ukraine was “incomparably greater” than those of the Yugoslav War in 1999, noting that Russia is a nuclear power.
The Ukrainian president’s efforts to involve as many European countries as possible in the war must be taken “with understanding”, he said, because those aim to mitigate or even avoid defeat, adding that the governing parties’ dispute was not with Ukraine but with the Hungarian opposition, which, he insisted, “has already reached an agreement with the Ukrainians behind our backs”.
Orbán said that if the opposition won Sunday’s election, they would start sending weapons to Ukraine the next day and
back proposals to turn off the taps of Russian pipelines supplying gas and oil to Hungary.
“We must not allow this; we must protect Hungary’s interests,” Orban said, adding that any sanctions on energy deliveries would paralyze Hungary.
“There would be fuel shortages, factories would have to close down, and many people would lose their jobs,” he said. “Our hearts are with the Ukrainians,” Orbán said, adding however that Hungary must stand up for its interests and keep out of the war.
“Hungary has so far provided assistance to close to 600,000 refugees,”
the prime minister said. “This is why Ferenc Gyurcsány is wrong in saying that Hungary is ‘a crap country’. We are a great country that is offering help and providing all the care possible to those who are fleeing from trouble,” said Orbán.
Read alsoSerious and deep economic crisis to come, Orbán said
Fidesz: EU must deal with the Soros network!
Tamás Deutsch in a letter to fellow MEPs has said “the time has come to substantially deal with” the case of the “external influence of the Soros network on EU institutions”.
Deutsch, who heads Fidesz’s EP group, said in the letter posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday that a recent series of articles in the daily Magyar Nemzet had “finally uncovered” how the “network” of financier George Soros truly operated. He said the articles had provided “irrefutable evidence” concerning the network’s modus operandi, which many had dismissed as “fiction or a conspiracy theory”.
The report, he added, provided evidence of the operation of
“double standards, fake news and manipulation” against Hungary and Poland on the part of the “Soros network”.
Deutsch told MEPs in his letter that the issue went beyond Hungary and Poland, insisting it was a “pan-European problem”. Its manipulations, he added, extended to western mainstream media, which, he insisted, echoed the biases of Soros’s NGOs.
The Soros network, moreover, increasingly influenced the activities and decisions of EU institutions, he said, insisting that politicians and bureaucrats had been parachuted into EU positions by the network, threatening the integrity of those institutions.
Referring to a report by Sergey Lagodinsky of the Greens/European Free Alliance group to be discussed at this week’s EP plenary session, he said the report suggested that
Soros’s political lobbyists “disguised as NGOs”
should be protected from the jurisdiction of EU member states, which, he said, would erode transparency and accountability.
“In this case, too, the absurd idea of representing the Soros network’s self-interest is now passing through the European Parliament like a hot knife through butter,” Deutsch said. The MEP said that failure to take “appropriate action” against the external influence of the Soros network on the EU could lead to mounting tensions between member states and EU institutions and add strains to European cooperation.
Read alsoSoros’s message: Hungarians can outvote an autocrat in 2022 – VIDEO
Fidesz: Voters should have final say in child protection debate
With Brussels and organisations linked to US financier George Soros “attacking” Hungary over its child protection law, it is only right if voters have the final say in the debate, the group leader of ruling Fidesz has said in connection with Hungary’s April 3 referendum on child protection.
Storybooks, commercials and the internet are subjecting children to “propaganda” on sexual orientations, which they should be protected from, Máté Kocsis told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Sunday. It is parents who have the exclusive right to decide on the sex education of their children, he said.
Kocsis said
Hungary had been under pressure from the international media and under attack “by NGOs linked to Soros and pseudo-civil groups” since it passed its anti-paedophile and child protection law last summer.
“Let’s let the people decide; that’s the right way to do it,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said
the criticisms levelled against the law by Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition’s joint candidate for prime minister, were “baffling”.
“Every mother and father was outraged when Péter Márki-Zay questioned the assertion that the father is a man and the mother a woman,” he said. Márki-Zay, he added, should wait for the outcome of the referendum “instead of insulting those who think differently”.
Concerning the prime ministerial debate initiated by Marki-Zay, Kocsis said:
“The prime ministerial candidate really just keeps harping on about this debate.”
“Debating is so important to him that he’s now literally debating pensioners, rural Hungarians, minimum wage earners, those with disabilities, workers, journalists and political analysts,” Kocsis said.
Hungary in the foreign media: Soros network holds all the cards?
A former journalist of left-leaning news portals 24.hu and Index.hu in a leaked interview has spoken candidly about how international NGOs “hold all the cards” when it comes to reporting on Hungary in foreign media, the state secretary for international communications and relations has said.
Citing an article in the daily Magyar Nemzet, Zoltán Kovács said on Twitter on Thursday: “Why am I not surprised? Partly because these statements are not the only ones made recently by liberals on the topic of biased reporting about Hungary. I honestly can’t wait to see what’s next.”
Most NGOs, including Amnesty International and “the ones financed by George Soros, exercise huge influence over foreign reporters writing about Hungary in the international press,” Kovács said said in an English-language post on abouthungary.hu. “For example I was invited to Brussels and Strasburg to report on individual events. Usually, in these cases, journalists were really instructed where they should go, who they can talk to,” Kovács said citing the journalist.
According to the journalist,
“it is not good” that press workers are so dependent on NGOs, and it is difficult to work transparently in such circumstances,
Kovács added. Meanwhile, in an interview in Friday’s Magyar Nemzet newspaper, the state secretary for communications and international relations said the “Soros network” had affected the way Hungary was being portrayed in the international media.
Hungary had been in the receiving end of such distortions since 2010, Kovács said, adding
the best way to combat misimpressions among the western public was to correct them in the international press.
Nevertheless, it was hard to get through to them, he added.
Kovács said the journalist in question who is a former head of the Soros Foundation had recently conceded that Hungary and Poland were being “attacked” on the international stage “with many unjust accusations”. The Soros network’s modus operandus was now clear, he said, adding that western readers, by default, couldn’t understand “what makes the Hungarian government so popular”.
Kovács said hundreds and thousands were “actively involved” all over the world in peddling “distorted facts or opinions”. “We’ve seen this … for the past twelve years … ever since the media law, the fundamental law and the cardinal laws were passed.”
In the run-up to the April 3 general election, he added, Hungary’s electoral system would be “attacked yet again by the Soros network”.
Soros’s message: Hungarians can outvote an autocrat in 2022 – VIDEO
The Hungarian-born philanthropist and businessman called a stock exchange speculator by many sent a message to the Hungarians before the 2022 general elections. PM Orbán’s government has been fearmongering for half a decade. Having written that, the content of Soros’s message is not a surprise.
PM Orbán says he conspires to settle migrants in Hungary and Europe because his aim is an open society where traditions, nations and religions fade away. The Hungarian government declared they would contend that program, Soros and his allies.
Meanwhile, almost everybody knows in Hungary that George Soros was one of the biggest supporters of the Fidesz in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based on the gossip, he bought the first photocopier for the party and helped officials of Fidesz with scholarships. Viktor Orbán, for example, could spend some months in Oxford by winning one of those grants before the 1990 general elections.
This positive and later neutral attitude changed after the migration crisis in 2015. Since then, the government has launched even a billboard campaign against Soros. They claimed on the posters that the billionaire wants to help migrants come and settle in Hungary.
Billboard campaign initiated by Government against the so-called Soros-plan, i.e. helping migrants to come and settle down in Europe.
Soros shared his thoughts for the new year on 31 January, focusing on how China threatens open societies in the world. He said that China was the most potent authoritarian power in the world. He added that Beijing would do just like Hitler in 1936: Xi Jinping will use the winter Olympics to spread propaganda.
He highlighted that Hungary’s voters – against all odds – may turn an authoritarian ruler out of power. He said that together with the new German Government, the French elections in April and Putin’s decision about Europe would determine the fate of Europe.
Afterwards, Soros talked about China and the possible outcomes of the following party congress, during which Xi Jinping can be elected as party general secretary for a third term. As CNN reported, Soros highlighted that China faced economic problems. That is because its real estate boom ended in a bang last year.
“Soros has in recent years emerged as a prominent critic of Xi and China’s ruling Communist Party. The legendary investor and chair of the Open Society Foundations said in September that asset manager BlackRock was making a “tragic mistake” by doing more business in China. He has criticized Beijing over its surveillance policies and a crackdown on private business.” – CNN reported.
IMF’s prognosis is about a 4.8 pc economic growth in 2022 for China which is a dramatically low rate in the case of the Asian country.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s views on European issues – Part 2
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently gave an interview to the Czech conservative daily Lidove Noviny. You can read about the Hungarian Prime Minister’s views on European and Worldwide problems.
Commenting on migration, he said double standards were operating in Europe. Referring to fences built by Hungary and the Baltic states, he said whenever a liberal government did something it was always good, but when a conservative one did the same it was always the opposite.
Orbán said the EU does not have to let in Afghan migrants because they should stay in their region and Europe should help the countries of that region cope with the burden of Afghan migrants. However, if Germany wants Hungary to open a corridor for Afghans to reach Germany, Hungary will be willing to do so, he added.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s views on European issues – Part 1
He said that after the big migration wave of 2015 acts of terrorism had intensified, adding that there was a connection between the two, and the latter always grew commensurate with the former.
Brussels, he said, was again attempting to pressurise member states into relocating migrants. “We’ll have to veto [this] again and again…” Orbán added.
The prime minister said Brussels was dragging its heels on its decision over EU recovery money, but the funds would arrive sooner or later. In the meantime, Hungary has raised a large amount of money, 4.5 billion euros, on the market with interest of below 1 percent, he said, adding this “good deal” would enable the country to implement developments needed for recovery. “Hungarian projects are up and running without a cent from Brussels,” he said.
Government: migrants gaining citizenship and the right to vote is unacceptable
Commenting on the introduction of a 15 percent global corporate tax, Orbán said he did not support international decisions that interfered in the tax policies of a sovereign state.
Regarding domestic politics, he said the Fidesz government was locked in a battle with its predecessor to prevent the “regime” of Ferenc Gyurcsány from making a return. He said voters had not forgotten that period of the former Socialist-liberal prime minister. “This is why we won three times in a row and that’s why we’ll win a fourth time.”
Drawing a parallel between the political forces allied against himself and those against Babis, he said central European countries all faced a similar situation, insisting that whenever the “big powers” turned against a government in central Europe, they promoted forces that sympathised with them and served their interests.
Minister: EU parliament committee has no power over Hungary
Orbán accused the “Soros Network” of backing forces, including the “Brussels bureaucracy”, that were protesting against Czech and Hungarian sovereignty. “Today Brussels favours servile governments,” he said, “not leaders who fight for the independence of their own country.”
Regarding the Czechs and Hungarians, he said the two peoples were different in that Hungarians were more akin to Christian spiritual traditions and national sentiment — and this was reflected in the bearing of their leaders. “No one can argue, however, that Andrej Babis is one of Europe’s greatest fighters,” he added.
On the topic of the German elections, Orbán said Germany was experiencing “something novel”, and the big question now was whether or not the election outcome would lead to a predictable, reliable Germany led by a great chancellor.
Read alsoParamilitary group planned to assassinate PM Orbán and opposition leaders! – VIDEO
Fidesz slams EC rule of law report as ‘political blackmail’
Balázs Hidvéghi, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, on Wednesday slammed the European Commission’s annual rule of law report covering all member states as “political blackmail dressed up in legal garb”.
“It didn’t come as a surprise,” Hidvéghi said in a video message commenting on the report, adding that the government “had no illusions in connection with the EC’s so-called rule of law report after the events of the past few weeks”.
He said Brussels was “using this frivolous and biased document” to call Hungary to account for its own ideological expectations.
Hidvéghi said
the report was “full of absurd claims that have nothing to do with reality”.
If one looks over the report’s references it becomes clear that this text “was also dictated by the known Soros organisations”, the MEP said.
He said one such “absurd” claim was that Hungarian journalists faced intimidation and were not safe. “They’re saying this when just days ago an investigative journalist was murdered in broad daylight in the Netherlands,” he said.
“Meanwhile, another journalist was killed in Malta by a car bomb, yet Brussels is concerned about the state of the media in Hungary,” he added.
“This deceitful report is nothing more than an attempt to blackmail our country,” Hidveghi said. “All because we’re going against the Brussels-based mainstream, say no to immigration, protect our children and refuse to let LGBTQ activists into kindergartens and schools.”
Read alsoEC ‘blackmailing’ Hungary over child protection law, says Orbán cainet
Soros behind attack on Hungary’s media record, says minister
Financier George Soros is behind fresh attacks on Hungary’s government over its record on media freedom, Judit Varga, the justice minister, said on Monday.
Varga was responding to press watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) placing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on its list of “predators”.
As we wrote, Hungarian PM Orbán is the only European leader featured on the list, read more HERE.
Read more at: https://dailynewshungary.com/reporters-without-borders-pm-orban-among-press-freedom-predators/
“The Soros ‘ex machina’ kicked in again,” Varga wrote on Facebook in her English-language post.
“The organisations of the left-wing opinion bubble are once again trying to undermine Hungary’s reputation with false reports and lists by using directed questions,” she wrote.
“The list published by the ‘independent and objective’ Reporters Without Borders on Monday attempts to portray Hungary as a place where the freedom of the press is being oppressed in a particularly drastic and ruthless way.”
Varga said RSF had received hundreds of thousands of dollars from Soros’s foundations.
She wrote that “the regulatory environment of Hungarian media activities was developed in cooperation with the [European] Commission.”
“Hungary is one of the few Member States where genuine pluralism prevails both in the media and in ideological debates, as well as in the public opinion,” she added.
The minister also cited “Politico’s refusal to publish an Op-ed of the Minister of Justice of a democratically elected government”, adding that this was “worrying from a media freedom point of view”.
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Government: George Soros avoided paying taxes
Csaba Dömötör, a state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, on Friday hit back at US financier George Soros for “insulting Hungary”, citing US media reports that Soros had avoided paying taxes by tucking billions of dollars into his charity organisation.
“George Soros is insulting Hungary again; this time by calling it a mafia state,” Dömötör wrote. “These sort of insults ring totally false from a billionaire who pays no taxes.”
Citing recent press reports, Dömötör said Soros had
managed to avoid paying federal income tax for three years.
“Foundations play a key role in these tax evasion manoeuvres,” the state secretary said, adding that Soros had moved 18 billion dollars into his Open Society Foundations alone.
“The Wall Street Journal is calling this transfer of wealth the single biggest tax dodge in US history,” he added.
Meanwhile, Dömötör said, Soros was calling for others to pay more taxes. He cited the Project Syndicate website linked to Soros as calling corporate tax increases “the best solution” to the economic crisis caused by the pandemic. However, a low corporate tax rate is one of Hungary’s biggest competitive advantages, he added.
“If he [Soros] attacks us a hundred times, we’ll defend ourselves a hundred times,”
Dömötör said. “And we will add each time that an unelected tax-dodging godfather shouldn’t lecture us on democracy.”
George Soros wants to attack Hungary through NATO?
The Hungarian national media is known for extreme reaches, but this time it is exceptionally out of pocket.
Readers less versed in conspiracy theories may have been surprised on Tuesday by browsing hirado.hu, according to 444.hu.
Soros issued the order to NATO: they must intervene in Hungarian internal affairs
– read the title of the article.
Organisations affiliated with George Soros state in a joint document that Hungarian internal affairs must also be intervened through NATO, and that the United States of America must become a defender of global democracy.
At the same time, it is clear that the European Union and the Western elite have come under the influence of a non-governmental organisation.
It is already a fact that EU politicians affiliated with Soros or the Open Society Foundations system are on payrolls. Consequently, it is believed that they could put pressure not only on Brussels but also on NATO.
However, it is not clear who published the document, why they did that and where it can be found. Perhaps, it is enough that László Földi, an intelligence expert with much expertise, explains that “the European Union and the Western elite have come under the influence of a non-governmental organisation”. Still, even Földi acknowledges that “this is an initiative that points to many things, but at the same time lacks factuality in any way” as NATO does not attack its own allies.
The fact that payrolls include EU politicians who can be tied to Soros or the Open Society Foundations system is also mentioned in the article. According to Földi, NATO should have intervened more during the refugee crisis, which is finally the topic that has been mentioned in the same context as Soros’s name a million times in different forms of propaganda, never actually achieving anything.
Read alsoOrbán calls for stronger protection of Hungarian interests ‘against Soros’
Gestapo-like terror of Jews and their Hungarian saviours
When we hear the term war heroes, we instantly think about soldiers in their uniforms being awarded a medal for their merits in a war. They are heroes indeed, but in every war, there were those people who did not get mentioned or received any recognition for their actions.
When it comes to the Second World War, Hungary had many ordinary civilians who risked their lives, not only to protect the country, but also to save Jewish friends from certain death.
We know of hundreds of Hungarians who were brave enough to hide or help Jews escape, even if they were total strangers to them.
Honouring their bravery, we would like to introduce some of them.
In the Winter of 1945, the “nyilasok”, members of a radical right-wing death squad, the Arrow Cross Party, only needed a gun and an armband to do whatever they wanted to in the capital without any retribution. András Kun, the commander of the anti-semitic group, together with his companions massacred hundreds of people in two hospitals and a nursing home – writes szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu.
“The majority of Jews living in Budapest tried to survive in ghettos at these times, only a small group of them was deported.” – says historian Balázs Lenthár.
However, it would be a mistake to think that the whole population was watching the events senselessly.
In the 12th district on the Apor Vilmos Square, we can find the Igazak Fala – The Wall of True People with the names of those carved who were saving people during WWII.
The Jad Vashem Remembrance Center awarded the majority of them, but we aim to also mention those who had not received this honour. Most of these people’s names are utterly unknown for Hungarians as well, even though they lived just in the neighbourhood of our parents or grandparents. Moreover, some of them are actually here today thanks to them.
Ferenc Kálló, a priest, helped Jews until the end, even if he had to do so in secret. From 1944 he saved hundreds of people but unfortunately with time he became suspicious. He was tricked into going and giving the final unction to someone on his death bed. His body was found the next day – a bullet killed him.
Dr Kálmán Zolnay, despite working in the Ministry of Justice, could not agree with the anti-semitic politics in the country.
He saved the wife, the son and the unborn child of one of his friends who was taken for labour service. Moreover, he used his own apartment in the capital to save people. Finally, Zolnay had to hide as well, as none other than András Kun himself moved to the building he lived in.
Klára Tüdős Zsindelyné saved dozens of Jewish children despite his husband being the Minister on Commerce and Transport. Thanks to her widespread network of relations, she was hiding Jews in her villa and even cooperated with the Swedish Embassy to run several hiding places.
“Let’s not forget Captain László Ocskay, who saved almost 2500 people in two years!”
– says Lenthár. As his personality did not match the lying anti-fascist narrative after 1945, his name was forgotten. However, he was one of the most decent people of this period. The “Hungarian Schindler” acquired a civil career after the Treaty of Trianon, but in 1943 he again decided to join the Hungarian Defence Forces. Ocskay himself, due to his noble origins and Western relations, was persecuted. He left the country in 1948 and lived in the United States working as a nightguard. He died before people he saved could have found him.
Pál Szalai took a very risky job by being a “nyilas”. He was present at the birth of the movement, but by the 1940s, he completely changed his mind. When he was called back to work for the party, he did join them pretending he was still one of them. Making the most out of his position, he went from home to home and warned Jews to take all their belongings with them. He even made a rule that the “nyilasok” can only take people’s belongings if the homeowner is present. Thus not only did he save people but gave them a chance to flee with at least some of their valuables.
Finally, to show the importance of the heroic acts of these people, here is a controversial person in Hungary’s life who is alive today thanks to a brave person. György Soros and his family was saved by his father’s employee and very good friend, Ferenc Balázs. He offered his family’s own documents to the Soros family to escape the country and certain death.
News on happenings of the Second World War and Holocaust might be boring and repetitive for many, saying that past is in the past and we need to focus on the future, but countless people living in Hungary and all over the world today would not have the chance to focus on their future if it had not been for these brave people.
Read alsoGestapo-like terror of Jews and their Hungarian saviours
PM Viktor Orbán to have nightmares because of President Biden?
Analysts say that Biden’s presidency can be economically beneficial but politically disadvantageous for Hungary. Since PM Viktor Orbán and Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó have said many times that they are in favour of former-president Donald Trump, it will probably be hard to break the ice with the new administration. Will the new US secretary of state, Anthony Blinken, help this, as he is of Hungarian origin on his mother’s side?
According to euronews.com, the protectionist economic policy and intolerance against sexual and ethnic minorities bound together Trump and Orbán, Washington and Budapest, in the last four years. However, despite the ideological agreement, Hungary did not benefit from this relationship in terms of foreign relations or finances. Therefore, Joe Biden’s presidency
could mean a turning point in the relationship between the two countries.
According to an analyst of Political Capital, we may realise the difference from the tone of the discourse between the two administrations.
- Obama’s view on Trump and Orbán: they treat the people who elected them as subjects
- Barack Obama associates top-down dominant power with Orbán’s Hungary in interview
- Will the new American Secretary of State be a reason of nightmare for Orbán?
Péter Krekó said that PM Viktor Orbán is more of an artist seeking balance than a pro-East dictator. He enjoys the security provided by the European Union and NATO, but he is winking towards Russia or China as well. Therefore, he thinks criticism from Washington will be more frequent because of this policy and, thanks to that,
the Hungarian prime minister will have fewer opportunities for maneuvres.
The Hungarian government spoke out several times in favour of Donald Trump’s presidency. Furthermore, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó criticised Joe Biden during the presidential campaign several times because of his son’s suspicious business affairs in Ukraine.
Obama’s former vice president is still supporting liberal values and the export of democracy, so he mentioned Hungary in one of his rallies among the negative examples in this regard. Biden knows Hungary well since he spent his honeymoon at Lake Balaton, and he spent a lot of his time as vice president to deal with the affairs of the Central European region. Moreover, his foreign secretary will be Antony Blinken, whose father served as ambassador in Budapest and,
among his friends, there is George Soros.
Interestingly, from an economic viewpoint, Biden’s presidency can be beneficial for Hungary. That is because Trump conducted a trade war against the European Union and wanted to increase the taxes affecting the European car import significantly, which would have hurt the Hungarian industry as well.
Orbán cabinet spokesman: ‘Twitter blocked 200 of my followers’
Zoltan Kovács, the state secretary for international communications and relations, said on Monday that Twitter had in an “arbitrary move” blocked 200 of his followers “overnight” without any explanation or notification in advance.
There have been numerous news reports and commentaries published about “this most recent hobby of tech giants of blocking or suspending mostly right-wing conservative voices they don’t like,” Kovacs said on Facebook.
He noted a similar move by Twitter in September last year, when it blocked the Hungarian government’s official account “without any explanation” just on the same day EU Commissioner Vera Jourova, “a Soros ally”, presented its rule of law report on Hungary.
“While these tech giants keep preaching about the importance of diversity, their moves over the recent weeks and months go to show that they are far not that supportive when it comes to the diversity of opinions,” Kovács said.
Read alsoOrbán calls for stronger protection of Hungarian interests ‘against Soros’
Orbán’s adviser: Pandemic, migration and Soros plan threaten Hungary, Europe security
For the sixth successive year, no real solution to migration in Europe has emerged, György Bakondi, the prime minister’s chief domestic security adviser said in a statement on Tuesday.
Bakondi said countries that failed to toe the European Union’s line faced major political pressure.
Referring to financier George Soros, he said the so-called “Soros Plan” was being incorporated into the EU draft legislation. The European Commission’s new migration action plan, he said, would legalise migration and provide housing, social benefits, citizenship and voting rights to 34 million migrants.
Bakondi added that
Hungarian migration policy, on the other hand, focused on the security of citizens and the protection of national sovereignty, as well as the requirement that people obey the law.
He noted the Hungarian physical and legal barriers to entry at the border and the country’s major police and military forces involved in border protection, adding that Hungary is helping Balkan countries to prevent illegal migration as well as providing aid to troubled regions that are the source of migration.
Hungary’s migration policies, he said, enjoyed a high level of public support.
The PM’s security adviser said that in 2020 there was a big increase in the number of illegal migrants and a close link between illegal migration and organised crime.
He insisted that in parallel,
“the Soros network” had been “highly active”, particularly in the second half of the year, when “more and more open political action was taken”.
Bakondi accused “the Soros network” and left-liberal forces of lobbying for the withdrawal of EU funding to countries that refused to follow the EU’s stance on migration. The government, he added, successfully prevented this.
The government, he said, would continue to pursue its “proven migration policy” in 2021.
The aims, he added, were to ensure domestic and border security, and protect national sovereignty.
Hungary will oppose endeavours to promote immigration, such as the resettlement quota system, and cooperate with like-minded countries, he said. Hungary will also continue to assist European border control efforts and provide aid to troubled countries through its Hungary Helps programme, he added.
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Orbán calls for stronger protection of Hungarian interests ‘against Soros’
Hungary’s interests should be protected “with increased emphasis against George Soros and his network”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Friday morning.
“Soros has attacked Hungary several times but what he has just done, with assistance from Hungary’s left wing, goes too far for the country to pocket with a shrug,” the prime minister said in his interview.
Soros is working in Brussels “to harm Hungarians wherever he can”, Orbán insisted. “It is not right that we are just sitting here, fending off these attacks and pretending as if it were a matter of course,” he added.
Orbán also said it had required “great feats” for him to prevent Soros from “causing Hungary damage to the tune of many billions of euros”.
Orbán went on to say that the European Parliament “seeks to take over leadership of the European Union”. He argued that “MEPs think that the EU is Brussels alone” while prime ministers of the bloc consider Brussels a “place for negotiations rather than [the EU’s] centre” and “the EU is where the national capitals are”.
“Behind the EP there is a network and that’s where Soros and his people come into the picture; they have built strong positions in the EP,” Orbán said.
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Orbán’s response to Soros: ‘Europe has not surrendered’
The European Union has maintained its unity and won, George Soros lost and it would be time for Europeans to “finally send him home to America”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in response to a recent opinion piece that the US financier posted on the commentary website Project Syndicate.
“Soros is shedding crocodile tears and while this will not return the money that the speculator has stolen from millions of people, families and businesses, it does provide some modest satisfaction,” Orbán said in the document forwarded to MTI.
“The most corrupt man and network in the world” has good reason to be disappointed because Europe has not surrendered and Soros’s grandiose plan has been suspended by the European Council, Orban added.
The spotlight is now on budget resources, the recovery fund, and who has access to what and how, the prime minister said, adding that the EU’s funds have so far been kept under strict European supervision by multiple parties in all member states.
“The issue here is about something else,” he said. What was really at stake at this week’s EU summit in Brussels was who will govern Europe in the future, he added.
“Will Europe be governed by the governments elected by the citizens of Member States and their council, or will Soros succeed in building a new power structure?” Orbán said.
The prime minister said this power structure comprised a “network of NGOs disseminating liberal, post-national and post-Christian ideas, along with the mainstream left-wing and right-wing media conveying and reinforcing their ideas; a significant group of MEPs; the Soros envoys brought to the Commission; and a so-called rule of law mechanism linking them all together”.
“The plan is as simple as it is grandiose,” with a “Soros financial center” funding thousands of NGOs, research institutes, analytical workshops and activists who influence the direction of mainstream media, he said. It buys up and links a critical mass of MEPs and puts the people who work for him in key positions in the European Commission, such as Frans Timmermans and Vera Jourova, he added.
“Finally, they push through a piece of legislation that sets political preconditions – gender, migration, an open society, liberal democracy – for Member States to have access to EU funds,” he said.
In line with his plan, countries that insist on their national sovereignty, Christian roots and traditional family model, such as Poland and Hungary, “must be strung up in this carefully devised noose”, Orbán said.
And the reluctant, like the better-off central European countries and the recalcitrant Scandinavians, must be relegated to perform public penance to better understand the essence of liberal reasoning, he added.
Orbán said that fortunately, at the last minute, European governments “came to their senses”. They read the country reports on the rule of law, which he said Soros and Timmermans had dictated to Jourova, and suddenly, everyone understood that the verdict had already been handed down before the trial and that other trials would take place after Hungary and Poland.
Orbán added that the decision of the European Council this week was an open declaration of opposition to “Soros’s attempt to take power”. Political issues cannot be linked to financial issues, subjective criteria cannot be the basis for financial decisions, and “the legal procedure laid down in the Treaty of the European Union cannot be applied in the manner Soros seeks,” he said.
“There is no explanation as to why we Europeans tolerate an American speculator building and buying an EU system of influence with American money,” Orbán said.
“Until European leaders take this last step, we will have to face attempts by him and his people to seize power over and over again,” he added, stating that the migration and gender action plans from the “Soros workshop” were already on the table.
“It’s high time to put an end to George Soros’ European joy ride,” Orbán said concluding his response.
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Soros: Compromise with Hungary, Poland ‘worst of all possible worlds’
US financier George Soros said in an opinion piece published on commentary portal Project Syndicate on Friday that a compromise prepared by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to prevent a veto by Hungary and Poland of the European Union’s 2021-27 budget and Covid-19 recovery fund is “the worst of all possible worlds”.
“The European Union is facing an existential threat, and yet the EU’s leadership is responding with a compromise that appears to reflect a belief that the threat can simply be wished away,” Soros said.
He said that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s “kleptocratic regime” and, to a lesser extent, the illiberal Law and Justice (PiS) government in Poland, are “brazenly challenging the values on which the European Union has been built”.
“Treating their challenge as a legitimate political stance deserving of recognition and a compromise solution will only add – massively – to the risks that the EU now faces,” Soros said.
“The primary victims of the deal that Merkel has reportedly struck with Orbán will be the people of Hungary…All I can do is to express the moral outrage that people who believed in the EU as the protector of European and universal values must feel,” Soros concluded.
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