Prime Minister Viktor Orbán takes the view that “the peoples of Europe are beginning to wake up”: they have realised that immigration is a cultural issue, and that “our identity is at stake”.
Chief of the Prime Minister’s Press Office Bertalan Havasi has disclosed to kormany.hu the content of a letter from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to His Eminence Husein Kavazovic, Grand Mufti of Bosnia and Herzegovina, in reply to his recent public comments. In the letter Mr. Orbán reiterated that during the Yugoslav War Hungary extended a helping hand to all and provided protection to those in need – including Muslim families from Bosnia.
In Brussels, at a meeting on Sunday of leaders of countries affected by Western Balkans migration, Viktor Orbán made it clear that Hungary is ready to help states situated on the migrant route.
The Western Balkans migration route no longer directly affects Hungary, and it is therefore now attending the summit on this purely as an observer, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said upon arriving at the meeting on Sunday.
In an interview with the conservative Spanish newspaper ABC, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the fence on the Hungarian border is working, as others elsewhere in Europe are – although people do not generally speak about those.
In an interview during his visit to Madrid broadcast in the early hours of Friday morning on Spanish television channel Intereconomía TV, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that multiculturalism is creating parallel societies in Europe, and this may call into question the values which are regarded as the pillars of the European way of life.
The head of the Prime Minister's press office has told Hungarian press agency MTI that on Thursday Hungarian and Spanish prime ministers Viktor Orbán and Mariano Rajoy discussed the European migration crisis; the two leaders agreed that the European Union's external borders must be protected.
If the European Union is unable to protect its borders at Greece, which is the Eastern gate of the Balkans, we have to do so at the western gate of the Balkans, at Hungary and Slovenia, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the Congress of the European People’s Party in Madrid.
European leaders have no authorisation for what they are doing, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed in Madrid.
The population of Europe mostly support the measures of the Hungarian Government, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in answer to the questions of journalists on Wednesday in Madrid upon his arrival at the congress of the European People’s Party.