Hungarian Diaspora Council hold in Budapest

Budapest, December 2 (MTI) – The era of western dominance in the global economy and the military as well as the “export of democracy” is over, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council in Budapest on Wednesday.

The West is continually losing its influence and “we are right in the middle” of a global reshuffle of power, economy and politics, Orban said.

The focus of the global economy is shifting to eastwards, and this is not a temporary phenomenon. The West’s military dominance is also expiring and “the export of democracy has come to an end, a course in global politics based on the export of human rights”, he added.

Europe suffers from even greater problems than America and the European economy is in a state of “sclerosis”, Orban said, adding that were it not for central Europe, the European Union’s economy would be shrinking.

Orban said the success of reforms in Hungary is not doubted even in such “bright-eyed” places as Brussels.

Commenting on illegal migration, he said an absurd coalition has been formed comprising a network of tens of thousands employed by human smugglers, a team of human rights activists paid by businessmen and certain leading EU politicians. As a result, “we are importing to Europe people who have been forced to leave their home or have decided to leave”.

It is not that they cannot be stopped, but “we are organising their travel, sending out vehicles and suspending the laws that would enable a normal immigration policy. This is the mass migration of the new age and the migrants are not just entering Europe but storming it,” Orban said.