PM Orbán: May the devil take the foreigners, and the Hungarians be cast into the deepest pit of hell!

At the conference entitled “Successful Hungarian Presidency 2024 – a chance for the European Union” organised by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium on Monday, Viktor Orbán attacked the EU leaders more than ever before.

Hungarian EU presidency ‘beginning of new era’

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has referred to Hungary’s presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second half of last year as “the beginning of a new era”.

Orbán said the upcoming era would be recorded in history books as “one in which (US President) Donald Trump and European patriots started a reconstruction of the Western world”. The world sees “the rise of the East, Asia, and the world order created and dominated by the Anglo-Saxons is over, ” he said.

The world’s main power centres are in the process of building the new economic, political and cultural frameworks “for us to live in probably for decades to come”, he said. “Brussels is the only geopolitical center where they are not interested in changes in global politics and impacts on us … the EU has not even started preparing for the race, so it should sober up,” Orbán said.

Hungary EU presidency ‘raises flag of peace’

Orbán said, “It raised the flag of peace, opened the door to a ceasefire and peace talks, and put pressure on European leaders that they should restart diplomacy and communication,” at a conference in Budapest on Monday.

Hungary could only open a dialogue with the warring sides in the war in Ukraine “on a national basis because the majority of EU member states oppose peace”, he said.

Hungary is now passing the peace baton on to the new US administration, Orbán said, adding that “good intention, courage, diplomatic skills, a Christian sense of duty are nice things, but peace requires strength.”

He said that taking on fierce debates, the Hungarian presidency pointed out that the war weakened Europe and warned that not only Ukraine but every European national economy had been on the losing end because of the war.

The European Union should “now sober up but they are drinking even more instead; they don’t want peace but press for war, they don’t want border controls but migrants, they don’t protect the family but gender; they don’t seek affordable energy but green policy,” he said.

According to 444, Orbán said that a lot of work had been done to make the Hungarian Presidency a success. But some worked against the success of the presidency:

“May the devil take the foreigners, and may the Hungarians be thrown into the deepest pit of hell!”

‘Western world has patriotic, pro-peace, anti-migration president in Washington’

“The western world now has a patriotic, pro-peace, anti-migration and pro-family president taking office in Washington, and within a matter of hours, even the sun will shine differently over Brussels,” the prime minister said.

“A new president in America, a large patriotic group in Brussels, great enthusiasm, patriots who love their country; so the great attack can begin: I hereby launch the second phase of the operation aimed at occupying Brussels!”

Viktor Orbán said.

EU could be ‘absolute loser’ in new world order

Europe’s incumbent leaders have made the EU isolated and “if all goes unchanged, the EU could become an absolute loser in the new world order, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told.

He said Hungary was “doing well” in terms of the economy, state administration and national identity, being “in the front lines globally”, adding that Hungary was “not a follower but a pioneer, one of the courageous experimenters.”

The prime minister said Hungary’s economic neutrality marked in the international arena a path that is different from, and sometimes is even in conflict with Brussels’ expectations.

“Europe has now become isolated from all key players of the new world order, such as the new American administration, Russia, China, and Africa,” he said. Under its EU presidency, Hungary continuously worked to build its future ties, he said but added that “if all goes unchanged in Brussels, the EU will become and absolute loser in the new world order … we don’t want to be losers, thank you,” the prime minister said.

Everybody has a job in Hungary

Everybody has a job in Hungary and families pay the lowest utilities bills in Europe, PM Orbán.

Inflation has been crushed, so much so that we were able to increase pensions in real terms last year, and we were able to give pensioners HUF 150bn more than what was in line with inflation, Orbán added.

The PM said wages have started to increase, the government has doubled the family tax credit, subsidised credit for young blue collar workers has been introduced in addition to the student loan, the budget deficit is decreasing, and the national debt is not growing.

No one disputes that in 2025 the growth of the Hungarian economy will be at least twice that of the European Union, he added.

Orbán said HUF 450bn of investments are being launched, Hungarian SMEs will receive HUF 1,400bn this year, and family savings are at least one and a half times the EU average.

We, Hungarians, have a well-developed strategy for the coming world era in contrast to Brussel. Its results are obvious, and even our opponents tend to discuss them only with awkward embarrassment, he added.

EU ‘sick man’ of Europe

“The sick man in Europe today is the European Union itself,”

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a conference organised by the 21st Century Institute and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, on Monday.

According to Orbán, the EU is unable to guarantee peace and security in Europe and its immediate neighbourhood; it cannot ensure Europe’s welfare, stem illegal migration or provide a perspective to Europe’s agriculture.

Orbán insisted that the bureaucrats in Brussels could not be convinced, and while “the EU sees failure after failure, the Brussels institutions are getting stronger and stronger, and seek to obtain further powers.”

“In Brussels they do not at all think that the EU is sick; they think the EU is working as it should, while the objective of European integration is integration itself: building a bureaucracy ruling over the nation states,” Orbán said.

Orbán said the “treatment to heal the EU” required change, which could be achieved “through political means, from the outside, and through taking on conflicts with Brussels”. He said, however, that “facilities inside the EU” could also be resorted to, adding that “we Hungary are the opposition of the regime in Brussels.”

Orbán: ‘Brussels controlled by oligarchy’

“Brussels is kept under occupation by an oligarchy coordinated by the left-liberal and Trans-Atlantic elite,”

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told.

“This is a regime which is not European but global, it is not a democracy but an oligarchy, and it is federal rather than based on the sovereignty of nation states,” he said.

“There it is a united progressive liberal front stuffed with George Soros’s money facing us … they are attacking us because we are sovereigntist and even patriotic,” he said, adding that “they are attacking us because we insist that the rule of law should apply to Brussels, too,” he said. “They are also attacking us because we demand that the fight against corruption should also be extended to Brussels,” Orbán said.

“They will use every means if needed; they will promise positions, scholarships, appreciation, publicity, power and money; and if needed, they will threaten with fines, financial sanctions, or stripping you of your voting rights,” Orbán said.