Hungarian
Leader Orbán Blames EU for Migrant Crisis, Foresees the ‘Destruction of Europe’,
by Oliver Lane 3/16/16
In speeches on Hungary’s National Day, prime minister Viktor Orbán has lashed out at European leaders for inviting the “destruction of Europe” by causing the migrant crisis and has rejected European Union (EU) plans to resolve the situation.
Warning
“Europe will be destroyed”, Mr. Orbán said in Budapest yesterday he wanted to
prevent further incidents of “gangs chasing our women”, especially in his own
Hungary.
Anti-mass
migration political movements across Europe have been galvanized by the images
and stories coming out of German cities like Cologne over New Year’s Eve,
and his remarks reflect a preoccupation with preventing further sexual
assault by migrant gangs.
Falling
short of actually naming Germany in his Hungarian National Day speech, Mr. Orbán
criticised the “incorrigible fighter for human rights” who blindly welcomed
migrants to Europe and who in turn brought “crime and terror” to the continent,
reports Nachricten.
Calling for unity among European peoples, while making a carefully worded attack on
the cloistered leaders of the EU, Mr. Orbán said:
“We
are calling every citizen of Hungary and every nation of Europe into unity,
regardless of political affiliation. Europe’s leaders and citizens cannot live
in two separate worlds any-more, we must restore the unity of Europe. The
people of Europe cannot be free on their own, if we are not free together.
“If
we stand together, we will succeed. Divided we will fall… The future of
Europe is at stake. ‘Shall we be slaves, or men set free?’, that is the
question”.
In
another speech Mr. Orbán didn’t pull his punches on the EU, accusing it of
threatening the very existence of European nations. Speaking on Tuesday, he
said the EU was to blame for the migrant crisis and was working to create a
“United States of Europe” that would inevitably “swallow up member states”.
The
speed with which they were moving toward this goal meant it was now “time to
ring alarm bells and gather allies” to stop the plans.
Although
Hungary, like many Eastern European states remains broadly in favor of the EU
continuing to exist because of the large subsidies they receive from the
political bloc, Mr. Orbán’s comments make it clear he believes in a strong
change of direction, away from Euro federalism and unlimited mass
migration.
Indeed,
he remarked yesterday: “If we want to stop the mass migration, we must first
put the brakes on Brussels”, reports Politico.
Breitbart
London has
reported at length on Viktor Orbán’s often outspoken criticism of the EU and on
his own policies which have made Hungary one of the nations safest from the
migrant crisis in Europe, despite lying directly on the migratory route from
the Balkans into the heart of the continent.
After
completing the national border fence and
seeing illegal migrants fall from 10,000 a day to just a couple of dozen, Mr.
Orbán declared a national referendum on the EU’s migrant policies.
The
vote, due to place this year is the first of its kind in Europe, and Mr. Orbán
said it would be a major test of European democracy. Speaking of the
disappointment with the top-down EU control which triggered his decision to
launch the vote, he said:
“Nobody
has asked the European people so far whether they support, accept, or reject
the mandatory migrant quotas The government is responding to public
sentiment now: we Hungarians think introducing resettlement quotas for migrants
without the backing of the people equals an abuse of power”.
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/03/16/hungarian-leader-orban-blames-eu-for-migrant-crisis-foresees-the-destruction-of-europe/
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