Orbán: Brussels performing ‘Soros plan’

The “Brussels machinery” is performing US billionaire George Soros’s pro-migration plan, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview to public radio on Friday.

“Brussels has come under George Soros’s influence,” he said. The European Union wants to dismantle the border fence, let migrants enter the continent, distribute them among the member states and punish those who resist, the prime minister said.

The events in Brussels are unfolding exactly as Soros outlined, “it is a planned process”, Orbán said.

Hungary, however, is “not a country of fools” and one cannot “pretend as if everything was happening by accident”, he said.

“We have revealed the existence of the Soros plan, and the drafter himself admitted that it exists. We have placed it in the focus of politics,” Orbán said.

Commenting on the “national consultation” survey about the “Soros plan”, he said that if Hungary wants to defend its interests, all decision makers in Brussels should be aware that most Hungarian citizens are taking a stand for national interests.

Concerning the EU’s planned reforms, he said that while plans are being drawn up about the future of the EU, “the Schengen system is crumbling in our hands” and instead of defending the external borders, internal borders are being established. He cited a proposal in line with which member states should have the right to reintroduce border controls within Schengen for three years. Additionally, restrictions are being placed on the free movement of labour, he said.

Orbán called the infringement procedure launched against Hungary because of its law on foreign-financed NGOs a political affair. He added that

the related document had been drafted by the “Brussels bureaucrats” on political orders and they want to use legal means to force a political decision on Hungary.

“It is a subject of public ridicule everywhere in Europe …. A sensible lawyer would not even touch it,” he added.

The law stipulates that “when somebody gets money from abroad, they must admit this. Period. What does that violate?” Orbán asked.

The question is for how long Brussels would put up with “being the subject of public ridicule”, Orbán said. The entire EU is in trouble and European leaders have lost respect because the “Brussels bureaucrats” make such decisions, “insulting and abusing member states with such matters”, he added.