2016-09-13
“Europe needs to wake up,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told lawmakers in a speech focusing on migration. “The crisis will not resolve itself. Naive politics brings trouble,” Orbán said. “Naivety in Brussels is the general state of affairs today, but instead of a showdown, meaningful debates and European unity are necessary alternatives”, he added.
Migrant crisis
“Hungary’s migration policy is morally sound … We don’t have a heart of stone … Help should be provided at the point where the migrants depart from rather than bringing trouble here,” the Hungarian Premier suggested. The Oct. 2 national vote on migrant quotas serves the purpose of protecting Hungary, PM Orbán told lawmakers. “Through the referendum, we want to change the European Commission’s decisions that 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 said, adding: “They’re preparing a ruse: if they can’t get along with nation states then they will get along with left-wing cities … Now it will become apparent where the migrant settlements will be.”
Terrorism
Concerning the next EU summit in Bratislava, Viktor Orbán said his message would be that Europe’s “naive and dangerous” migration policy should be replaced by a policy “of self-defence and a show of strength”. Referring to the terrorist attacks in France and Germany, he said that “terror has now moved into Europe” as a result of “modern-age mass migration”. Terrorist attacks could happen in any EU country, he said. “Brussels is shrouded in the vain hope that things will return by themselves to old, comfortable ways,” he said. “What we have seen is just the warm-up; the real match is still ahead,” he added.
Brexit
Viktor Orbán insisted that the EU should be strengthened at the level of member states that serve as a basis for the community, rather than “Brussels institutions”. 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,” he said. On another subject, Orbán said that the United Kingdom should be no cause for concern after Brexit. Britain, with the sixth largest economy in the world, “stands on its own two feet and knows where it is going”. “What we are worried about is Brussels, not London”, Orbán said, adding that Brexit reflected a “failure of European policies”.
via hungarymatters.hu and MTI photos: Tibor Illyés – MTI
http://hungarytoday.hu/news/brussels-preparing-ruse-pm-orban-warns-speech-parliament-88668
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Czech Leaders Condemn Luxembourgish Proposal To Expel Hungary From The EU
2016-09-13
Czech president Milos Zeman and Bohuslav Sobotka, the country’s social democratic Prime Minister, have both condemned a statement by Luxembourgish foreign minister suggesting that Hungary should be expelled from the European Union.
In an interview with today’s edition of the German daily Die Welt, Jean Asselborn said that the only chance of preserving the EU’s cohesion and values is to suspend or even expel Hungary from the community and claimed that “Hungary is not far away from issuing orders to open fire on refugees”, statements that were immediately met from harsh criticism by his Hungarian colleague Péter Szijjártó, as well as the foreign ministers of Germany aand Austria.
In reaction to Mr. Asselborn’s interview, a spokesman for Milos Zeman, the president of the Czech Republic, said that the statements made by the Luxembourgish foreign minister cause “extraordinary damage” to the European Union and the project of European integration.
The spokesman’s words were echoed by Bohuslav Sobotka, the country’s left-wing prime minister, who said that a “rational attitude” has to be adopted in the debate on the future of the EU in order to form unity. Mr. Asselborn’s statements fall into the “category of nonsense” and amount to political trench-digging, he said, while making clear that he rejects the exclusion of Hungary from the European Union.
via mandiner.hu
http://hungarytoday.hu/news/czech-leaders-condemn-luxembourgish-proposal-expel-hungary-eu-65378
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