“We don’t want to meddle into internal EPP affairs, if they have a valid reason to criticise Hungary’s governing party, they should do that. But their current criticism is rather a part of the political campaign of the leftist-liberal forces,” Bjorn Soder, MP of the Sweden Democrats told Magyar Hirlap.
According to Gustav Kasselstrand, the chairman of the Alternative For Sweden (AfS), the conservative parties within the EPP have been weakened by the new liberal bourgeoisie. He said it’s respectable, that Fidesz wants to “change the direction” of the party family, but the EPP “has become a weak, liberal group, which took over the left-liberal worldview, it represents the interests of the left side and George Soros”.
Magyar Hirlap’s article recalled the critical remarks of the Swedish EPP politicians and highlighted that all Swedish EPP MEPs are on the leaked list of Soros-allies.
In contrast to the promise they made one and a half years ago, the European Commission still hasn’t given any money for Hungary’s border protection, while it continues to generously support “Soros NGOs,” government Spokesman Istvan Hollik told a press conference on Saturday.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban told public radio in an interview on Friday that the issue of migration “is at stake in the European parliamentary election”. The government’s recent billboard campaign will bring it home to Hungarians what means Brussels plans to employ to promote migration, he said, vowing to “expose the plans of Brussels bureaucrats”.
The European Parliament’s current “pro-migration” majority seeks to boost migration, “which would be equal to Europe being taken away from Europeans”, the prime minister said.
He insisted that Brussels does not provide Europe’s nation states with any kind of aid to protect their external borders but “advocates schemes to import migrants into the EU within a legal framework”.
EU leaders, including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, “constantly talk about making legal migration to Europe possible,” Orban said, adding that the EP has taken “several pro-migration decisions” aimed at “giving many billions of forints to civil organisations that promote migration”.
Orban said that Europe was not up to the task of establishing a border force able to protect the external borders along their entire length, insisting that the borders could not be protected without the participation of member states. He mentioned Hungary’s request to the EU for reimbursement of “at least half” of the country’s border control costs, noting that the EU “hasn’t given a cent despite pledges”.
Orban said “Europe’s elite is no longer accustomed to being criticised”. New leaders must be elected in the upcoming European elections “who won’t make the same mistakes of the past five years”.