2023-07-22 17:09:05
Last summer, he caused an uproar by castigating “the mixture of races”. This year again, Viktor Orban had the opportunity to present his vision of the world and of Europe at the summer university in Baile Tusnad, a small spa town in Romanian Transylvania where the Magyarophone minority comes to listen to him. It was here, in 2014, that the nationalist conservative sketched out “illiberal democracy”, a concept that has since caught on internationally.
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The EU, this “federalist empire”
Relaxed in his simple light blue striped shirt, the Hungarian Prime Minister, in open and permanent conflict with Brussels, this time attacked “federalist governance in Europe” who, according to him, led “to an irresponsible empire”.
To describe the Continent which he considers in decline, the leader this time summoned the lexicon of boxing, castigating an EU “who still shows off his belts, but who no longer dares to enter the ring”. A Europe which, instead of “focus on connections”is instead trying to get rid of Russian gas, which the rest of the world will buy if the Europeans don’t want it.
Against “population exchanges” and “ l’offensive LGBT + »
So much for foreign policy. Regarding internal affairs, the Union has also taken for its rank. Viktor Orban, fiercely opposed to the Pact on Migration and Asylum proposed by the European Commission since 2020, denounced a “great replacement program”.
This conspiracy theory popularized by the extreme right argues that the elites would organize the replacement of European populations by non-European immigrants. Orban called to fight “population exchanges through migration” orchestrated by the Union, with reference to the plan to distribute asylum seekers as a sign of solidarity with the countries of arrival at the external borders of the EU.
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Also in his viewfinder, “the EU’s LGBT+ offensive against family-friendly European nations”. This is one of the recurring themes of Viktor Orban, whose government has taken several measures over the years deemed homophobic by NGOs. In the eyes of the ultranationalist, the battle remains to be waged against a “EU that rejects the Christian heritage”.
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“We have no choice: even if we love Europe, even if it’s our home, we have to fight”he insisted, with the horizon of 2024, when elections for local governments in Hungary will be held as well as the European elections. “We have become hedonistic pagans by rejecting Christianity”insisted the nationalist who has been in power since 2010. Under his aegis, Hungary has gradually brought the checks and balances into line, regularly drawing criticism from the European Union, which has frozen billions of euros in funds due to concerns about the rule of law.
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