Parliamentary debate on national security

Speaking about Friday’s attacks in Paris in an address before Hungarian Parliament on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was of the view that the European Union had been attacked, and Hungary was also in danger. He also suggested that terrorists are deliberately exploiting mass migration to blend in among migrants.

The Prime Minister stressed that the right to life takes precedence over all other rights, as does the right to self-defence. There is no ideology or economic interest of any kind which should allow us to risk the lives of European citizens, he said.

In Mr. Orbán’s view, the EU is rudderless, weak, uncertain and paralysed: “There are meetings and conferences galore, but there are no solutions. We are floundering in the net of ideologies, instead of taking firm action on the basis of common sense and our own cultural traditions.”