Titled Europe All Inclusive, it has already been translated into six languages. The Századvég School of Politics Foundation, connected to the think tank Századvég, is part of the FIDESZ party led by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
“What we see today is a similarly fundamental challenge to the future of Europe… and especially its ‘integrated’ part, is riddled with hypocrisy, pseudo-humanism and other dubious concepts. [When] the most dangerous of them are the currently fashionable, and ultimately suicidal, ideologies of multiculturalism and human-rightism.”
The authors explain how migration is being regarded as “a human right”, and this so-called “right” has spawned even more entitlements including social welfare hand-outs.
“Europe is weakened by the leftist utopia of trying to transform a continent that was once proud of its past into an inefficient solidaristic state, turning its inhabitants from citizens into dependent clients.”
Klaus argues: “There are plenty of arguments suggesting that the contemporary migration crisis is connected with the post-democratic character of the EU.”
In February 2018, Klaus gifted a copy of the Hungarian translation of his book to the Prime Minister of Hungary at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Klaus also delivered a speech during his visit, “Is Our Membership in the EU a Real Blessing?”, at the Corvinus University of Budapest on February 22, 2018.
On the occasion, Klaus riled against the “false and misleading interpretations” of the current European migration crisis, “promoted and propagated by the European political and intellectual elites with their progressivist, multicultural, politically correct views and attitudes”.
He said the elites believe “the untenable assumption that the mass migration is a positive social phenomenon”. He said voters strongly disagreed with that notion. “It is not a positive phenomenon, it destabilizes Europe, it endangers the peaceful and quiet developments in individual European countries.”
Klaus added: “History teaches us that any mass migration creates considerable cultural, social and political conflicts, shocks and tensions. Its costs have always been much higher than its benefits.”
He also said that in their research, they have not been able “to find any benefits from of it” and that it was “evident that Europe does not need any mass migration”.
The former Czech leader pointed out that due to EU membership, the crisis was “once again masterminded from abroad and that our sovereignty is again considerably constrained” by “those who underestimate the negative consequences of undemocratically suppressing nation-states in favor of a pan-European governance”.
Klaus said he was not “a citizen of the word” because in “the communist era, our dream was to be free citizens, not just inhabitants of our non-free states. Regarding mass migration, the issue of citizenship has become crucial again”.
He said while he was in favour of the increased openness of the European society, the increased bureaucratic centralization and regulations that suppress human activity, was a concern.
“It is impossible to be a citizen of Europe. Europe is not a political community. One can only be an inhabitant of Europe.”
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