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PM Orbán meets Seehofer in Bavaria
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2018 will be the year for restoring the people’s will, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Friday in the Seeon Cloister Church in Germany, on the second day of the three-day meeting of the Bundestag members of the Christian Social Union (CSU).
After their talks, the Hungarian Prime Minister held a joint press conference with Bavarian Minister-President Horst Seehofer where he said that the European people have a clear will.
“The people’s will is clear”: the people do not want to live under the threat of terrorism, they want security, they want their borders to be protected, and they want their leaders to take those people out of the Schengen Area who have no reason to be there. They should be taken back to a place where they can start a new life, he added.
Mr Orbán stressed: “Right from the beginning we have stood on the foundations of the protection of the borders and compliance with the Schengen regulations. We stood on the foundations of the Schengen regulations, built a fence, for instance, and reinforced our border controls when there were places in Europe where chaos and illegality were being celebrated”, he said.
He stated that the migrant issue had become a democracy problem in Europe, and pointed out that the European people have a clear will.
Mr Orbán said he highlighted at the meeting that the issue of the past few years was whether it was possible to open the way for and enforce the people’s will.
Leaders in many places in Europe did not do what the people wanted, the Hungarian Prime Minister said, observing that “at times like this a state of confusion emerges in politics”, and this contradiction must be resolved somehow.
“I told my friends in Bavaria that, in my view,
2018 will be the year for restoring the people’s will in Europe”,
Mr Orbán stressed.
The European people will enforce their will and ensure step by step that decisions are made which serve their best interests on the issue of migration, he pointed out.
The Prime Minister said he had learnt a great deal from Horst Seehofer. One of the important rules is that no rights of any kind can be built on the foundations of illegality, and laws must at all times be observed to the letter. The greater the pressure and challenge, the more precisely they must be observed, he added.
Hungary understood that rule, the Prime Minister pointed out.
Mr Orbán said he made it clear to his Bavarian partners that Hungary continues to stand on the foundations of legality.
“You should continue to look upon me as captain of Bavaria’s border stronghold. Bavaria’s southern border lies at the Serbian-Hungarian border, and when we protect that border, we also protect Bavaria”, he stated.
Bavarians and Hungarians are tied together by a long-standing and deep relationship: so long-standing that it stretches all the way from the family of the first Hungarian Christian royal family to the Audi factory in Győr, he stressed. He said that the intensity of this relationship reaches the depths of friendship.
“I have never observed any ill will in Bavaria towards the Hungarian people, Hungary or the Hungarian Government. I have always had sincere, open and fair talks here, and today was no exception”, he said.
I do not wish to be disrespectful and interfere with German internal politics, Mr Orbán stated.
