Orbán: Current battles with EU not helping Hungary’s development
As long as “there is an ethnic foundation”, policies built on ethnic foundations have a future in the Carpathian Basin, the prime minister told the Hungarian Permanent Conference (MÁÉRT) on Friday.
The elections in Slovakia in which the ethnic Hungarian party “failed to make it to parliament multiple times in a row” revived the question whether ethnically based politics had a future, especially considering declining demographics, Viktor Orbán said.
According to the Hungarian government, “preserving the ethnic foundations is our joint responsibility”, and as long as that exists, the politics based on ethnic groups also has a future, he said.
The situation of Transcarpathia Hungarians “is the hardest, most painful aspect of Hungarian life in the Carpathian Basin”, Orbán said. Hungary stands by Hungarians living in Ukraine, he said, and he lamented that “Ukraine still has time to harrass Hungarians amid a bloody patriotic war.”
Current battles with EU not helping Hungary’s development
Hungary today is having to fight battles with the European Union that do not help its development, Orbán said.
Orbán said he expected major disputes in the EU in the coming months, “the outcome of which will determine Hungary’s room for manoeuvre in the coming decades”.
One is whether the EU will pivot from unanimous decision-making to majority decisions, he said. That move would require an amendment of the EU treaties, which would be possible only with unanimous vote, he added. “That won’t happen as long as there is a single country against [majority voting].”
Hungary, Orbán said, saw unanimous voting as the “last guarantee for protecting national interests”, and so such a decision was “out of the question”.
“Hungary won’t have a parliament in the next 120 years that would vote for that, regardless of party affiliation,” he said.
Orbán: Cooperation among Hungarians solution to challenges of ‘world slipping apart’
The answer to the challenges of “a world slipping apart” lies in strengthening cooperation among Hungarians, Orbán said.
“Our answer to that slipping apart is unity,” Orbán said. In the coming years, the essence of Hungary’s strategy for Hungarian communities beyond the borders should be strengthening cooperation among Hungarians “as the world around us disintegrates and slips apart”, he said.
This year, Hungary was able to maintain programmes and institutions created to support Hungarians outside the country but had no capacity to expand them, Orbán said.
He said the country was expected to return to growth in 2024, and the resources for that expansion would again be at hand. The latest increase in the minimum wage show that “life is returning into the Hungarian economy, and we’ve managed to drag it out of recession”. This, the prime minister added, would give the opportunity to revive development schemes for Hungarians beyond the borders, too, he said.
Orbán: Europe squeezed out of new world power, economic structure
Europe has been squeezed out of a new global power and economic structure, and has been devalued as a result, Orbán said.
Orban said Europe’s opinion was now considered a “sidebar” rather than an important factor influencing outcomes.
“There are two suns in the sky, neither of them European,” he said.
The prime minister said that agreements were now being shaped by the US and China, with the latter “producing economic growth that is slowly but surely leaving that of the western world behind”.
“This is a crisis for us, a European crisis of confidence and self-evaluation; we’re not used to that,” he said. Europe will have to find answers “to what constitutes sensible behaviour” in such a situation, he added.
He said one “school of thought” promoted competition, trade and “trying to strengthen ourselves” as a solution, while the other suggested protectionism and isolationism, he said. The latter “is of the opinion that preserving what we’ve got is already an achievement.” He added that this debate was pervasive in every European Council summit and in every EU ministerial meeting, he added.
Orbán: Solely up to Hungarians to decide who stays in Hungary
It is solely up to Hungarians to decide who can and cannot reside in Hungary and on what terms, Orbán said, adding that immigration enforcement rules must be transparent and strict.
Orbán said whereas western European leaders thought that Muslim immigrants could be secularised in the same way that traditional European Christian communities had been, Muslims did not want to be secularised and felt at home with a different life philosophy, “which they see as superior to secularised European life”.
So chances of real integration were “extremely small”, he said.
Hungary, the prime minister said, must tighten its immigration rules as the relevant 2007 law had been introduced before the advent of “migration inflation”.
A transparent and enforceable system must be created, Orbán said, “otherwise Westerners will sweep us away”.
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Title subject of this article all falls back on the name Victor Orban.
Blame others or other interference or try and validate his actions reason(s) again, but the cataclysmic on-going MESS of the European Union and Hungary – the individual, known as the “Strong man of European Politics” named Victor Orban, its his name, his doings, his actions – that have near on ruined Hungary’s relationship and membership of the European Union.
Vow! Damnation, you put all the blame on Prime Minister Orban. Just think, Hungary upheld all agreements it signed when Hungary joined the EU. Since then, the EU changed or stop enforcing agreements, e.g. Dublin Agreement. Brussels even stopped upholding the UN definition of a refugee.
The EU resents conservatism and Christianity. Well, Hungary has a Christian Conservative Democrat (Majority) Government. Conservative Governments have delivered desired effects for the population since the 1800s. Brussels also has a hard time accepting any anti-globalist ideas. Hence, when Soros’ brainwashing university refused to act with in the laws of the country, and the country did not change its laws to accommodate Soros, the EU lost it. The EU supports grooming of children by LGBTQ etc. members and pedophiles. Hungary decided to protect minors. The EU did not consider the fact that LGBTQ etc. and pedophiles can groom millions of children in 26 other countries. So what is the big deal? Presently, Hungary’s greatest sins are the Hungarian government does not wish to kill oppressed Hungarians living in the Ukraine and the government wishes to keep its people from starving and freezing by buying Russian energy.
Well, I must admit that I do not live in Hungary or EU but if by some misfortune I would be forced to live in the EU, I would definitely choose to live in Hungary.