The fifth anniversary of Hungary’s new constitution – Orbán: Islamisation falls under constitutional ban in Hungary

Islamisation falls under a constitutional ban in Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday, at a ceremony celebrating the fifth anniversary of the country’s new constitution in Parliament.

The Hungarian government is not in a position to support mass migrations that would lead to a contradiction of the national creed as espoused in the Fundamental Law, Orbán said.

Noting the constitutional obligation to protect Hungarian citizens, the prime minister declared that “we have to know who wants to come to our country and why; we have a right to decide with whom we want to live together and with whom we do not.” He added that this is not contrary to the principle of universal protection for refugees.

He said the points he recently declared under “Schengen 2.0” serve to protect the external borders of Europe. Those who want to come to Europe must go through an evaluation procedure outside the continent’s borders, he said. It is also reasonable to stipulate that illegal migrants must be sent back to their safe place of origin or to a safe third transit country. Any development or visa policy vis-a-vis a non-European country must be conducted with set conditions, Orbán said.

Responses to demographic and labour-market challenges must be made within the realm of sovereign states, he insisted.

Orbán said Hungary and central European states were more capable of coming up with viable answers to various crises as they were more “filled with the spirit of action” than other states were. He said the reason for this was that Hungary has a modern constitution which has the answers to “where Hungarians come from, where they are now and where they are headed”, while Europe “is in denial about its past and future and burdened by self-torment”.

“This is apparent from the frequent attacks Europe hurls at Poland and Hungary,” he said.

Orbán praised the work to create the new constitution five years ago, including the consultations which preceded it. He said there were many who argued that the timing for adopting a new fundamental law was not right, and he thanked everyone who “did not listen to those voices”.

Orbán voiced concern that some principles laid out in the constitutions were not “reaching lower-level legislation effectively”, and as an example he mentioned the lack of legislation for the idea that “children must provide for their parents”.

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Source: http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters