Viktor Orbán: ‘For us Hungary comes first’

A successful Europe does not exist without prospering nation states, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the general meeting of cities with county status in Veszprém, in western Hungary, on Thursday.

“The world cannot succeed without a flourishing Europe and cities also require successful villages and families to thrive,” he added. “For us Hungary comes first,” Orbán said at the meeting, telling mayors of Hungary’s largest 23 cities that their personal efforts were also needed to “enable Hungarian people to protect Hungary”.

Orbán said diversity is not a virtue but a characteristic, and something that is diverse is not necessarily also more valuable.

“We do not want to become diverse and get mixed up … with others”, he said. “We want to stay like we have been for 1,100 years here, in the Carpathian Basin,” he added.

Orbán said migration was dangerous and bad, and Hungary does not want to participate in it. “This needs to be clearly said because failing to do so will allow us to be diverted by diplomatic tricks … and we will also lose our future,” he added.