Orban said pro-immigration forces currently in power in Brussels are eager to push through a course of action before the May European parliamentary elections, since they fear becoming a minority after the vote.
He said most voters reject pro-immigration policies, therefore the European Commission has just published its programme on what to implement urgently.
“It is about establishing a permanent migrant settlement programme, opening legal migration routes and creating a pilot migration programme with African countries and introducing a humanitarian visa,” Orban explained.
According to Orban, the programme involves getting NGOs to assess such visas and stripping European Union member states of their border protection responsibilities. Orban said for this reason there would be a “tough few days” during the upcoming EU summit in Brussels.
He said this open-border policy was antithetical to all that Hungarians stand for.
The prime minister insisted that at the forefront of the European Parliament’s “pro-migration side” were the Liberals – “the strongest group in terms of its financial and media support” – which, he said, tended “to mess with Hungary”.
Viktor Orban at the opening of the Hungarian Heritage House this week. Photo supplied
Orban said it was a “significant achievement in recent years” that “a formerly clandestine Soros network has been revealed”, a network which “has not been authorised by anyone to impact the lives of people”.
Referring to the United Nations’ migration pact, Orban said that “Soros’s international network” sought to use the UN to get migration “accepted as a good thing” so that “Soros and his kind can say that they have international authorisation”.
In the United States, Orban said that President Donald Trump’s forces and those of Soros “are fighting a battle over whether to return to the grounds of American national interests or build a globalist government to which nation states would be subordinated”.
He said that Hungary’s own opposition was also promoting the notion of global government, but the opposition’s weakness, he added, has rendered their endeavours insignificant. The prime minister also insisted that such networks operated as “outsourced secret services” and sought to delegate their agents to “important positions”.
Referring to the Hungarian economy, which he said was performing well, he said: “where there’s money, there are speculators; where there’s flesh, there are flies”, but he pledged to “shoo off such speculators as George Soros”.
Meanwhile, in response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit earlier in the week, Orban said Hungary “has to gather friends rather than enemies”.
He has “always kept Hungary away from the bad western European attitude” of lecturing other states on how to behave, he said. This “trend” was introduced by the US, which in the meantime has also realised that “this does not lead anywhere”, he said.
The structure of the Turkish state is an internal affair, Orban noted.
Turkish policies have a direct bearing on Hungary’s security, Orban said, noting that Turkey hosts 4 million migrants. “If the Turks let them, a large number of these people would appear at the Hungarian-Serbian border within days.”
A strong political system and a strong leader in Turkey is in Hungary’s “basic interest”, he added.
Addressing the inauguration of the revamped Budai Vigado cultural centre in Budapest this week, Orban said it was Europe, not Hungary, that was locked in a culture war.
“This European culture war is the fight for our own culture,” the prime minister said. “Sometimes I hear that there’s a culture war going on in Hungary,” Orban said.
But the cultural situation in Hungary could better be described as “culture peace”, he said. “Soon there will be total agreement that our future has to be built on family, labour and the reunification of the nation.”
