Description: According to the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that an (EU) attack on Poland is an attack on Central Europe: Commenting on recent EU measures connected to Poland, Orban said: “if somebody attacks Poland, they attack the whole of central Europe. Hungary’s interest is to show solidarity with the PolesRead More
Date: 2017-12-23T10:58:50+01:00

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# Viktor Orban stands with Poland against the EU: An attack on Poland is an attack on Central Europe

By Voice of Europe 23 December 2017 No Comments
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According to the Hungary Journal, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday that an (EU) attack on Poland is an attack on Central Europe:

Commenting on recent EU measures connected to Poland, Orban said: “if somebody attacks Poland, they attack the whole of central Europe. Hungary’s interest is to show solidarity with the Poles and make it clear that no EU punishment can be introduced against them.”

Hungary’s Prime Minister said the EU procedure against Poland was “unfair and unreasonable”. “Without Poland there is no strong central Europe … A sweeping majority of Poles share the same view about migration as Hungarians.”

“Tens of thousands of migrants have arrived in Poland from former Soviet areas plus more than a million Ukrainians but the EU refuses to take this into consideration. They consider something a problem only if it is a problem for Western countries, he added.

Orban also said that Hungary had not received any “unrefusable’ offers” of help for the introduction of the common currency, only “weak, modest and worse offers than before”. In order to introduce the euro, a country needs to adjust the real economy to the average of euro-zone countries, which requires a strengthening of funding from the EU cohesion fund, he added.

Attempts to make EU cohesion funding conditional on meeting certain constitutional requirements are futile because the community’s basic treaty and legal system do not make such a move possible.Hungary has been paying a significant contribution to the EU and has been receiving significant resources. At the same time, the EU also benefited from the funding they granted to Hungary so “actually, they have made money on us,” Orban said. “Nothing happened that we need to be thankful for,” he said adding that the entire system is based on mutual interests.

“The Hungarian economy can operate without EU funding, too,” Orban said. “The engine of growth is the labour of the Hungarian people, we have world-class workers,” he added.

> “Hungary doesn’t require anybody’s money. Hungary can stand on its own feet, and if perhaps the financial trends within the EU change, Hungarian economic policy is flexible enough to adapt,”

Orban said.

The foundations of Christian life are much stronger in Europe than many people thought, he said, and added that a lesson he learnt in 2017 was that the primary task of elected political leaders would be the protection of Christianity.

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