by Oliver JJ Lane
Doublespeak in Brussels wages war through the European Peace Facility and seeks to censor the media using the Media Freedom Act, Hungary’s Orban says, as he accuses the Union of ‘raping’ Hungary and Poland with the new migration deal being pushed through without consent.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a veteran of European Politics who has led his country on and off singe 1998 has voiced his frustration at the direction of the Council of Europe meeting on Friday, with his government and likeminded Poland moving to block a joint statement of European states on immigration. The European Union has spent years trying to build a new approach to borders and migrant sharing since the migrant crisis of 2015 made old assumptions and practices obsolete, but a rift remains between open borders countries that want to spread migration across the whole continent, and anti-mass migration nations who don’t want functionally unlimited arrivals imposed upon them.
Under Europe’s plan, migrants would be redistributed over the continent and any nation that refused to take its share would be hit with considerable fines of €20,000 per head.
“The situation is getting worse”, said Orban on Friday, remarking would-be migrants were now shooting at border guards on his southern border and criticising the European Union in the strongest terms for trying to strongarm him into an agreement. He told journalists at the summit that: “Politically, it is impossible… legally we are, how to say it, we are raped. So if you are raped legally, forced to accept something that you don’t like… It’s impossible!”.
Brussels legally raped Poland and Hungary by forcing through the #MigrationPact . So there will be no compromise on migration. Not today, and not in the upcoming years. We will defend our borders from migrants and from the Brussels bureaucrats as well! pic.twitter.com/YRR5IJfQKR
— Orbán Viktor (@PM_ViktorOrban) October 6, 2023