Hungary island of freedom in liberal ocean, fundamental rights head says
Hungary is an island of freedom in the liberal ocean, the head of Hungary’s Centre for Fundamental Rights said in Washington, DC.
Hungary rejects migration, the gender madness and war, and this is reflected among the objectives of Donald Trump’s new presidency, Miklós Szánthó said at a panel discussion held at the second international Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), according to a statement sent to MTI by the Centre on Thursday.
Trump’s taking office has created a new situation in the world, which bodes well for conservatives, and especially Hungarians, because as Szánthó said with the elimination of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the globalists had taken “a big blow”. He said that the right-wing waves coming from the two sides of the ocean must be united so that the globalist political machinery could be dealt with.
Speaking on behalf of CPAC Hungary, Szánthó said Trump had brought the biggest turnaround by starting negotiations to bring the Ukraine war to an end. The Hungarian right has been urging this for years, and now that the talks led by the US president started, they were proven right, he said.
The discussion was also attended, among others, by former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki and former UK PM Liz Truss, Israel’s Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichi Chikli, US special presidential envoy Richard Grenell, former White House Chief strategist Steve Bannon and Brazilian senator Eduardo Bolsonaro, son of the former Brazilian president, as well as Kinga Gál, vice-president of the Patriots for Europe group of MEPs.
Major patriotic turn needed in Europe, says FM Szijjártó
A patriotic turn is needed in the European Union if the bloc is to regain its lost competitiveness, security and weight on the world stage, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday. The emergence of the “new global political reality” and the West’s new leader in the form of US President Donald Trump means that patriots have become the mainstream and the global majority, Szijjarto told a joint press conference with Christian Hafenecker, secretary-general of the Austrian Freedom Party (FPO).
He said the US had also begun to “take down woke ideology and the global dictatorship of the international liberal mainstream”, a ministry statement quoted him as saying. “We and our Austrian friends welcome both of these things … it’s time we returned to the fundamental values of democracy in Europe as well and to respecting the will of the people, which is perhaps the most important fundamental democratic value,” Szijjarto said.
“It’s time we also put an end to the false interpretation of democracy here in Europe, which says that if an election is won by a liberal party then there’s democracy, if it isn’t then there’s no democracy,” he added. He said democracy was disregarded when a party that has won an election was blocked from forming a government, when a party that gets 20-25 percent of the vote was kept out of power by a “firewall” and when the third biggest faction in the European Parliament was not given any positions.
Szijjarto said Patriots must have a leading role in “ending the global dictatorship of the liberal mainstream”. “The reason why we, the Patriots, are getting stronger in Europe is because we represent the interests of Europe and the European people,” he said. “We Patriots want peace, while liberals want to thwart the efforts to end the war in Ukraine.”
“We Patriots tackle migration, because this is critical to the safety of the European people … but liberals are letting migrants in, and we’re seeing the consequences of it,” Szijjarto said. He said the Patriots wanted their sovereignty to be respected, but liberals were building “a Brussels-based superstate”.
He called for a “return to an energy policy based on common sense” instead of implementing the “ideologised Green Deal”, insisting that policies pursued by liberals had led to soaring energy prices. Patriots, he said, wanted to go back to having international politics based on mutual respect and the pursuit of mutual benefits rather than sanctions.
“When we welcome the leaders of the FPO, we’re hosting the leaders of Austria’s strongest party, who represent the party that won the elections,” Szijjarto said, adding that they were calling on European liberals “not to obstruct an agreement between Russia and the United States”.
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