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The Prime Minister highlighted, among others, that today more children are born on the southern side of the Mediterranean than on the northern, and rather than defending themselves against this, countries such as Germany and Austria see the solution to these demographic problems in immigration policy, while Hungary places the emphasis on supporting families.
Mr Orbán said the phenomenon that more people are dying than being born, and that populations are declining and are becoming older and older is the result of the past 30 to 40 years.
According to the Prime Minister, “giving people money” in itself will not result in more children; instead a pro-family culture must be built as “the more we respect life the more children there will be.”
In order for this to happen, the Prime Minister said in continuation, young people should feel safe and should want to have families, rather than not to have families. This requires, on the one hand, a stable and predictable economic policy, and perseverance, a change in mentality and minimum 10 to 20 years on the other, he stressed.
The Prime Minister took the view that the European economy was “suffering from pneumonia;” there are serious troubles, major problems.
Mr Orbán said earlier the French head of state himself spoke about the fact that unless we change, within 2 to 3 years, the EU “will become extinct” because it will lose its markets; he added that at the same time, according to Mario Draghi, the European economy will go bankrupt.
The signs of this threat, this deterioration can be clearly seen in the Austrian or German economy as well as in many other places, Mr Orbán stated. We must make the European economy competitive again, he said.
The Prime Minister added that energy prices stood in the centre of this problem, given that, he said, as a result of the policies pursued in Brussels, today European companies are compelled to pay two to three times more for electricity and three to four times more for gas than businesses in the United States. It is impossible to compete under such circumstances, it is impossible to compensate for such a difference, meaning that Europe needs a new energy policy, or in a case to the contrary, businesses will go bankrupt, he stressed.
In the context of migration, the Prime Minister recalled that there were two types of European countries: those who let in people belonging to alien cultures, mostly to Islam, and those who did not; Hungary belongs to the latter group.
He said in Hungary members of the rather small community belonging to this culture live together with the Hungarian people, rather than as a separate isolated community. Hungary only ever issues as many work permits to these people as is required on the labour market at any time, and those who work here must leave Hungary upon the expiry of their work permits.
We Hungarians believe that with illegal migration the situation will not be any better anywhere, only worse, Mr Orbán stressed, mentioning primarily the accompanying high crime rates, anti-Semitism and the large number of homophobic crimes.
“No one in Hungary wants illegal migrants to come to us, we pursue a different path, we are a conservative island in this European liberal ocean,” he said.
Mr Orbán believes it is important that there should be prime ministers in ever more countries in the EU from the ranks of the Patriots, and sincerely hopes that soon in Austria there will be a Freedom Party prime minister. At the same time, he believes there is a good chance that the Czech Republic, too, may soon have a patriot prime minister and that in France Marine Le Pen’s party may form a government.
According to the Prime Minister, it would also have a positive impact on Brussels policies if as many as 4 to 5 countries had patriot prime ministers.
“I sincerely hope that this anti-migration, pro-family, pro-peace majority standing for the people and representing the European people’s best interests, this new centre-right will soon also materialise more robustly in the number of prime ministers,” Mr Orbán said.
Criticising the EU’s policies, the Hungarian Prime Minister stressed that the Brussels leadership had built a culture, a hegemonistic mentality in which anyone who was not a liberal could not be a democrat.
Mr Orbán said they have built this with the assistance of George Soros who pumped money into these policies.
He said, naturally, “there is room under the Sun” also for European liberals, and encouraged them to state their arguments, and the people will then decide. We must defeat them in as many elections as possible, he stressed.
Regarding the war in Ukraine, Mr Orbán pointed out that he was not pro-Russian; he is pro-peace. At the same time, he believed it was important to highlight that this was “a war between siblings which has nothing to do with us.”
He spoke about the fact that today there is a major risk of the war escalating which would lead to a World War, and therefore the Prime Minister repeatedly urged for a ceasefire and the commencement of peace talks within the shortest possible time. In this context, he stressed the importance of the presidential election due to be held in the United States next Tuesday as, Mr Orbán said, “we know that as president Donald Trump didn’t start any wars anywhere, and wherever there were wars, he swiftly concluded them.”
Mr Orbán also agrees with Donald Trump on the issue of stopping illegal migration.
“We will sit down with President Trump, and both Europeans and Americans will be able to strike good deals; in his person, we could receive a pro-peace president instead of a pro-war president, and then it will also be possible to change the Brussels policy,” he said.
If there is a person in the world who may succeed in achieving a ceasefire, it is Donald Trump, Mr Orbán said.
