Viktor Orbán Fights for Europe
.. On the European continent today, one man stands out as a true statesman: the prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán. He and his government have spoken out boldly on the threat to European identity posed by African and Islamic immigration...
To an extent, he is merely appealing to a Hungarian electorate that has retained healthy instincts. But Mr. Orbán’s government has consistently voiced its commonsense but controversial views in foreign and hostile settings. Like Donald Trump in America, Mr. Orbán has taken considerable risks by violating liberal orthodoxies...
For Mr. Orbán, patriotism means defending not only his own country, but also the wider family of European nations. In a major speech commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, Mr. Orbán argued that Hungarians were often at the vanguard of European history. Just as they had allowed East Germans to escape communism by opening the Iron Curtain in 1989, so in 2015, “We were the ones who had to close the border to stop the flood of immigration from the South.” He added: “We have continued to do our duty, even while we have been attacked from behind, by those we have in fact been protecting. . . . Europe can always count on us.”
Mr. Orbán went further, adding: “We must not give ground to terrorists who declare war on the Western world, nor to profit-seekers who send here people who are searching for a better life in Europe, nor to naive souls who have no idea into what extreme peril they are pushing Europe and themselves.” And finally he concluded that Hungary “chose [to have] its own children instead of immigrants, created work instead of speculation and benefits, achieved self-sufficiency instead of debt slavery, and chose border protection instead of raising its hands in surrender.”...
Last September the Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office, János Lázár explained that “the Government’s standpoint is clear: Preserving Hungary’s demographic unity is a prerequisite for long-term survival,”...
Something of the flavor of the current regime is reflected in the fact that Hungary has a State Secretary for Nation Policy, a post all European nations should have. The current secretary, Árpád Potápi, affirms that “the potential resettlement of migrants is a threat to every Hungarian and non-Hungarian citizen in the Carpathian Basin,” and argues that the European Union’s main purpose should be to “defend the European identity.”...
Europe is turning nationalist
Hungarians are spearheading the movement for European awakening...
What has become known as the Visegrád group—Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia—is a strong voice for immigration control. Czech President Milos Zeman has asserted that there is a “strong connection” between Islamic migrants and terrorism, and calls for the “deportation of all economic migrants.” Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico says, “Multiculturalism is a fiction. Islam has no place in Slovakia.”...
In the face of renewed nationalism, Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, admits that “we must stop talking about a United States of Europe.”...
So far, Hungary has held firm. Just this week, Szilard Nemeth, the vice president Mr. Orbán’s Fidesz party, announced Hungary’s plan to “sweep out” non-governmental organizations linked to Mr. Soros, which “serve global capitalists and back political correctness over national governments.”...
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