In addition to reducing taxes, boosting the economy, strengthening families and implementing a demographic programme, the most important goal of next year’s budget will be to preserve the country’s sovereignty and to strengthen border protection, for the purposes of which we will allocate a significant amount of funds, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Defence told the newspaper Magyar Idők. Szilárd Németh also said the Hungarian Defences Forces will be one of the winners of next year’s budget.
Mr Németh said in the interview published in the Tuesday edition of the daily that the changes resulting from the new structure of government also had an impact on the Defence Ministry. He highlighted that “we have returned to a historical tradition which understandably came to an end at the time of the fall of communism”. In Tibor Benkő’s person a four-star general will be Defence Minister who has filled every position in the military hierarchy, from platoon leader to chief of staff, during his active military career, the Parliamentary State Secretary stressed.
He said Mr Benkő had tasked him with organising a new type of Hungarian military. He highlighted that it is very difficult to direct a programme that will span many long years, “it is no wonder that in this context we do not tend to talk about electoral terms of four years”, the Parliamentary State Secretary said, pointing out that they must organise modern and effective Hungarian Defence Forces with the focus on soldiers. They need young, highly qualified soldiers, officers and generals who are devoted to their country, and who are able to defend the country’s sovereignty and security against anyone, he said.
Regarding his own post, Mr Németh said that while he was a regular soldier serving in the army for a year and a half and also served as President of Parliament’s Defence and Police Committee, with Mr Benkő by his side he represents the policy for which he received his mandate from electors. He said it is important to make the military career attractive and sufficiently rewarding. Regarding the development of the army’s military capability, he mentioned preparation for cyber, asymmetrical and hybrid warfare, but he added at the same time that they likewise cannot ignore the shortcomings experienced in the area of conventional military equipment such as air defence, armoured and anti-tank capabilities, and they must resume the manufacture of weapons.
The necessary resources, he said, have also been allocated as part of the Zrínyi 2026 Programme. He further highlighted that the Hungarian Defence Forces and the Ministry of Defence will be among the winners of the 2019 budget. “In addition to reducing taxes, boosting the economy, strengthening families and implementing a demographic programme, the most important goal of next year’s budget will be to preserve the country’s sovereignty and to strengthen border protection, for the purposes of which we will allocate a significant amount of funds”, the Parliamentary State Secretary stressed.
Mr Németh highlighted that the pressure of migration is ongoing, it is in fact intensifying and there are also new challenges. The international network associated with George Soros has launched an offensive against nation states, “he and the non-governmental organisations associated with him would organise, hand in hand with Brussels, immigration into the EU,” the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Defence Ministry said, who takes the view that an action plan is required to protect the country which will be embodied in the seventh amendment of the Fundamental Law and the “Stop Soros” legislative package.
He said that today the security issues associated with migration are the most important in Europe. He believes that the “frantic attacks” on Hungary, too, show that in the remaining 12 months the EU will want to push through all decisions which are necessary for the implementation of the Soros plan. They will want to underpin immigration without an upper limit with substantial financial incentives as well, observed Mr Németh who takes the view that, instead of supporting illegal immigrants and the organisers of illegal immigration, EU bureaucrats should start preparing for “the bad news and worrying signs which indicate the advent of yet another economic crisis concerning the Eurozone”.