Parliament’s first autumn session started – UPDTE

Budapest, September 12 (MTI) – The past four years of the government’s work have taken Hungary forward, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said, addressing lawmakers on parliament’s first autumn session on Monday. “The country is on a good track and has a future,” he said.

Orbán opened his address by discussing migration and the European Union’s “naivety” in dealing with its challenges. “Europe must wake up; the crisis will not resolve itself,” he said.

“Naive politics brings with it a state of lightheadedness, and this is what causes trouble. This naivety in Brussels is the general state of affairs today,” Orbán said.

Instead of seeking a showdown, meaningful debates and a unified Europe are necessary alternatives, he insisted.

Concerning the next EU summit in Bratislava, Orban said that he would speak at that forum against Europe’s “naive and dangerous” migration policy, which he said should be replaced by a policy “of self defence and a show of strength”.

Brussels’ current policies will “lead to a civilisational disaster, slowly but surely”, Orbánsaid.

The EU should be strengthened at the level of member states that serve as a basis for the community, rather than “Brussels institutions”, the prime minister said.

Warning that the EU’s competitiveness had dropped “tremendously” in the past decade, he added that the community’s economy needed to be bolstered. “We do not want to leave the EU but improve it,” Orbánsaid.

“Hungary’s migration policy is morally sound,” Orbán said. “Help should be provided at the point where the migrants depart from rather than bringing trouble here,” he said, adding that the October 2 referendum on migrant quotas served the purpose of protecting Hungary.

“Through the referendum, we want to change the European Commission’s decisions which have already been made,” he said. Brussels wants to implement an automatic mechanism for distributing migrants without any upper limit and facilitate family reunifications, he added.

But this is not enough as far as Brussels is concerned, he said. “They’re preparing a ruse: if they can’t get along with nation states then they will get along with left-wing cities.”