Election 2018 – Cabinet chief: Hungary will not budge on migration

Hungary will stand by the decision voters made on April 8 and will not budge one iota on its migration policy, cabinet chief Antal Rogán told news portal pestisracok.hu in an interview on Thursday.

Rogán said international attacks on Hungary’s migration policy “aren’t even particularly aimed at us”, but were part of a European debate about whether or not Europe would remain European or become a “continent of immigrants” with a mixed population. This is also what next year’s European Parliamentary elections will be about, Rogán said, adding that Europeans wanted the European Commission to come out in support of strong European borders instead of backing “the import of immigrants”.

“With the stakes this high, it is obvious that [Prime Minister] Viktor Orbán is a gigantic plank in the eyes of billionaires like [George] Soros and politicians promoting migration,” Rogán said. “They want to discredit us and the other governments opposed to migration as quickly as possible,” he insisted.

Asked about last Saturday’s anti-government demonstration,

Rogán called it “extremely funny” that “certain people can chant that there’s no freedom of speech or democracy when they themselves are proving the opposite of this”.