Orbán: "the West has Moved to Central Europe"

The West is fighting a war against Central Europe, and Brussels, together with [billionaire George] Soros troops, wants to "force immigrants on us," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday at the Bálványos Free Summer University and Student Camp held annually in Băile Tușnad, Romania (Tusnádfürdő in Hungarian).

The Prime Minister stressed that the first and most important challenge for Hungary remains population, demography and "the truth is that there are still far more funerals than baptisms". The situation has improved, but there is no turnaround, and if there is no turnaround, Hungarians will become a minority in Hungary and in the Carpathian Basin, he said.

He claimed that "the West has moved to Central Europe in the intellectual sense", the West is here and there is a battle between the two halves of Europe. Orbán said that Central Europe had offered to let everyone decide for themselves who they wanted to live with, but the West "has rejected this and continues to fight against Central Europe in order to make us like them," he said.

He also claimed that "Hungary can be a local exception in a global recession." He added that Hungary can only preserve what he called its economic successes if it stays out of war, migration, "gender folly," global taxation and a general recession in Europe.

Opposition parties say the prime minister should look for answers to real problems rather than voice political rhetoric. The Democratic Coalition's only reaction to Viktor Orbán's speech was: "We don't give sick people advice, we give them medicine." Another opposition party, Momentum, said that Viktor Orbán "has once again shown that he is not good at anything but incitement, when he should be addressing real problems such as the livelihood of the Hungarian people and the social crisis facing our country."