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Forum of the prime ministers of V4 – Orbán: Diverse views on future EU’s biggest challenge
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Prague, June 8 (MTI) – The European Union’s biggest challenge is that member states have dissenting visions for its future, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Prague on Wednesday.
Europe’s migration crisis presents a good example of this challenge, Orbán said at a forum of the prime ministers of the Visegrad Four (V4) countries.
Orbán said there were generally two distinct ways member states envisioned Europe’s future. One of them says the world is on the verge of facing a massive, unavoidable migration wave, which EU member states must learn to manage. The other camp believes that the migration wave can be stopped on the EU’s borders.
Orbán and his Czech, Slovakian and Polish counterparts discussed the EU’s ongoing crises and the role the V4 can play in their resolutions.
Speaking at a press conference after the forum, Orbán said the V4 had its most difficult and most complicated year in 2015 during which the grouping however tackled all the problems it faced.
He thanked the other three member states for the assistance they provided to Hungary in tackling the migrant crisis and their support to the Hungarian government in its political disputes with Brussels.
Orbán called the Visegrad Four partnership a success story and the grouping “the engine of the EU’s economic growth.”
“Without the V4 there is no growth, but only stagnation and recession,” he said.
It’s great to finally see an alliance of countries come together to challenge the self destructive regime of Merkel and her New German Empire (aka the EU).