“The overwhelming majority of the country does not want parallel societies, the establishment of ghettos and migrants”, Deputy Justice Minister Pál Völner said in an interview for Hungarian political news portal Pesti Srácok.
The Deputy Minister made the statement with relation to the fact that the Hungarian Helsinki Committee has taken the Government to court over the National Consultation. According to Mr. Völner, the Government is under continuous attack because of the physical and legal border barrier and its policy of protecting the Schengen Area.
“Everyone has a right to initiate legal proceedings, the court will decide. I hope they lose a lot in court fees”, Mr. Völner said.
With relation to businessman George Soros, the Deputy Minister said that Hungary had developed a positive image of him prior to the regime change, since he assisted the opposition powers who were fighting to topple the communist regime.
“However, following the regime change he was a strong critic of the nationally-committed Antall government, making use of the SZDSZ party. After which Soros ‘came out from behind the curtain’ and put forward his plan to resettle migrants. He wants to mould the shape of societies and nation states in Europe like a Narodnik”, Mr. Völner said.
“George Soros would primarily like to make money by doing this”, he added, recalling his speculation against the British Pound, as a result of which many became destitute.
“This time, he is trying to make an economic profit out of migration and the resulting chaos. Of course it is possible that what lies in the background is simply arrogance, and that he is simply happy with the knowledge that he has the power to manipulate processes and topple governments”, Mr. Völner added.
With relation to the fact that the opposition parties would like to demolish the southern border barrier, the Deputy Minister said the Hungarian opposition was always more than happy to fulfil the requirements of external power centres. “It used to be Moscow, and now the new direction is Brussels. And all because they want to follow European liberal mainstream politics, because they believe they can get ahead as a result”, he said.
With relation to the negative decision by the European Court of Justice in the quota case, Mr. Völner said he believed the whole quota affair was “a totally senseless game of tag wrapped in a mystic fog”. He pointed out that with the exception of Malta, not a single EU member state had fulfilled its quota obligations, but despite this proceedings had only been launched against Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic, calling this a “typical Brussels double standard”.
The Deputy Minister also spoke about the registration of foreign-funded civil organisations. According to Mr. Völner, foreign-funded organisations going through their toddler tantrum phase have suffered no disadvantage as a result of mandatory registration, adding that organisations tied to George Soros are clearly being sensitively affected by “having to step out into the light”, and by the fact that the veil is also being removed from the individual financing them.
“It is interesting to note that charity organisations have absolutely no problem complying with the regulations”, he added.
In reply to a question concerning why this is uncomfortable for certain NGOs, Mr. Völner said “because they are showing themselves to be philanthropic and humanitarian crusaders on a mission, but it has now transpired that they all feed off the same, big sack of money, the owner of which does not like the Hungarian Government”.
The Deputy Minister also spoke about the amendment to the Act on Higher Education, explaining that the original 1 January 2018 deadline could have been realistically kept to, but that a major political storm had erupted with relation to the affair and the European Commission had launched an infringement procedure, and that he was interested to see what they think about it now that the deadline has been extended. According to Mr. Völner, the fact that the CEU was not happy about it after all is because “the Soros university is playing a political game”. As he explained, the university’s rector failed as a liberal leader in Canada and now feels that he can finally achieve some kind of success here in Hungary, and “in the guise of a civil campaigner can now prove what progressive views he represents versus a conservative government”.