{"id":1046158,"date":"2019-04-07T02:19:37","date_gmt":"2019-04-07T06:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/?p=1046158"},"modified":"2019-04-07T02:19:37","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T06:19:37","slug":"orban-launches-fidesz-ep-campaign-7-point-programme-against-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bocskairadio.org\/en\/orban-launches-fidesz-ep-campaign-7-point-programme-against-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Orb\u00e1n Launches Fidesz EP Campaign: 7-point Programme Against Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n on Friday outlined his Fidesz party\u2019s programme aimed at stopping immigration.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first part of the proposal calls for stripping \u201cBrussels bureaucrats\u201d of their power to manage the migration issue and giving that competency back to the European Union\u2019s member states.<\/p>\n

He said no country should be forced to take in migrants against its will and no one should be admitted to the EU without valid documents.<\/p>\n

The EU should also stop issuing prepaid debit cards and \u201cmigrant visas\u201d to migrants, Orb\u00e1n said. Neither should the bloc give any more money to organisations linked to US financier\u00a0George Soros<\/em><\/strong>, which the prime minister said promoted immigration. Instead, he said, these groups should pay for member states\u2019 border protection measures.<\/p>\n

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Photo by\u00a0Szil\u00e1rd Kosztics\u00e1k\/MTI<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Further, no one should face discrimination for identifying as a Christian, Orb\u00e1n said, adding that EU institutions should have anti-migration leaders.<\/p>\n

The prime minister said these measures were crucial for stopping immigration and preserving Christian culture, and asked voters to back his party\u2019s programme. He said that<\/p>\n

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Our Christian civilisation is at stake in the upcoming European parliamentary election\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The election will decide if the EU has \u201cpro-migration or anti-migration\u201d leaders in future, whether \u201cEurope continues to belong to the Europeans or to masses from another civilisation; whether we can save our Christian, European culture or give up the ground for multiculturalism,\u201d the prime minister said.<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n added that \u201cdiscontent with Europe\u2019s elite is mostly rooted in their treatment of migration\u201d. What Europe is facing is not just a migration crisis but a migration of peoples in the historical sense, he suggested. Europe, he went on to say, could stop mass migration \u201cbut it has not even made an attempt;<\/p>\n

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the European Union\u2019s incumbent leaders support and encourage migration.\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Orb\u00e1n criticised Brussels for not focusing enough on family policy, pointing out that at the same time the EU regularly emphasises the importance of legal migration. He said the EU\u2019s programme of legal migration was actually a \u201cfront\u201d for replacing Europe\u2019s population with immigrants.<\/p>\n

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We Hungarians have lived here in the Carpathian Basin for a thousand years and we want to remain here and preserve our borders for at least another one thousand years\u201d<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The prime minister said. \u201cWe want the next generations, our children and our grandchildren, to be just as free to make decisions about their lives as we are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n also touched on the relationship between Fidesz and the\u00a0European People\u2019s Party<\/em><\/strong>, saying that \u201cwe will decide on our own future, not the European People\u2019s Party.\u201d Fidesz will wait and see which direction the EPP will go in after the elections, he said, adding that right now it appeared to be heading \u201cleft, in a liberal direction towards liberal European empire-building and in the direction of the Europe of immigrants\u201d If this is the direction the EPP is headed, he said, \u201cyou can be sure Fidesz won\u2019t follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As regards the outgoing European Commission president, Orb\u00e1n called\u00a0Jean-Claude Juncker<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0an<\/p>\n

\u201cauthentic socialist\u201d<\/p>\n

who bore heavy responsibility for Brexit, \u201cthe migrant invasion\u201d and the \u201cgrowing conflict\u201d between central and western Europe.<\/p>\n