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Orbán: Hungary will change if government ‘gives in to Brussels’
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Budapest, September 27 (MTI) – If the Hungarian government gives in to Brussels and its plan to “force uncontrolled migration onto Hungarians”, the country will change, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday.
“We will not allow them to take away our right… to decide whom we want to live together with and whom we don’t want to live with in Hungary,” the prime minister said in an interview with public news channel M1.
Regarding the EU’s proposed migrant redistribution scheme, Orbán said Hungary’s problem was not with migrants themselves but rather with Brussels, arguing that the European Commission “wants to settle people in our country whom we do not want to live together with.”
Orbán said that while the left considers the matter of migrant redistribution an ideological one, the government considers it a national security issue.
He said migrants can only be helped if “we take the help to where they are now instead of letting the problem into Europe.” Orbán said the Hungarian government spends a large amount of money on aiding migrants’ countries of origin.
“If we want to help everyone by acknowledging that they have a universal right to a better life and taking them in . then we will ruin Europe and by default Hungary, too,” he said.
Orbán noted that Hungary had implemented a migration policy focusing on self-defence. But he said Brussels was “applying double standards”, arguing that while the EU had criticised Hungary for installing a border fence to keep migrants out, Greece is never criticised or urged to act on managing the migrant inflow.
Orbán said that the problem of migration would not keep recurring in Europe if Greece fulfilled its international commitments and protected its borders. But it is either unable or unwilling to do this and has thus made Hungary a periphery Schengen country of the EU. “We have become a line of defence against our will,” he said.
“The braver politicians in Germany and Austria” admit that what Hungary is doing also benefits their countries, he said.
Orbán said that if Greece is unable or unwilling to protect its own borders, then the EU should build “a European line of defence” along Greece’s border with Macedonia and Bulgaria. If the EU fails to do so, then the line of defence will ultimately shift northward, making Hungary a frontline country again, he insisted.
How can anybody disagree with the most clear headed politician in Europe today ??
Bravo ! Viktor Orban !
John H. Morton.