Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has again criticized the European Union during a speech in a Romanian city where he trumpeted his nationalist agenda, including offering full support to former US President Donald Trump.
In a speech on July 27 that lasted almost two and a half hours, Orban said his visit to Romania was positive and discussed with his Romanian counterpart the new high-speed railway between Bucharest and Budapest and Romania’s membership of the free zone. visa, Schengen. Currently, the visa-free regime for Romania only applies to air and sea travel.
During the speech, Orban touched on the same themes that he promoted as prime minister.
He opposed the policies of some Western countries that promote or protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights and supported what he said were Christian values.
“There is no public morality in the West. You could also see this at the opening of the Paris Olympics”, he said, referring to the opening ceremony of the previous day.
“Unlike the liberals, we must raise a banner around which the brave, the nationalists and the new Christians can rally,” he said.
Orban also accused the European Union’s leadership of an ongoing war – an apparent reference to Brussels’ strong support for Ukraine in its fight against Russian occupation.
Orban has endorsed Trump, who is running as the Republican candidate for November’s US presidential election. The Hungarian leader, who met Trump in Florida earlier this month, predicted the former president’s victory in the US election.
And if Europe does not change its peace policy by then, after [Trump’s] victory, Europe, according to Orbán, “will have to accept its defeat.”
Orban made the speech while visiting the small town of Tusnad, located in a region of Romania with a large population of ethnic Hungarians.
During his tenure as prime minister, Orbán has often championed the cause of ethnic Hungarians living across Eastern Europe, often antagonizing nationalist groups in other countries, such as Ukraine.
Orban called for the expansion of his Government’s child support and welfare policies, asking that ethnic Hungarians living in other countries be included in this support scheme.
Orban, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, has for years been at odds with EU leaders over his government’s crackdown on civil society, independent media and opposition parties in Hungary. .
In addition to the EU, he has also clashed with NATO, partly because of his closeness to Russian President Vladimir Putin and his reluctance to do more to help Ukraine, which is facing invasion. launched from Russia in February 2022./REL/
