PM Orban: Outlines Key Political Battle of the Coming Years

According to Hungary's prime minister, Brussels has used every crisis—from the financial collapse to the war situation—as an opportunity to expropriate powers from the member states. Viktor Orban warned that the struggle of the coming years will be about whether this centralization can be prevented. So far, Brussels has managed to mishandled every crisis.

Let's not allow further transfer of powers or funds

Orban also stated that the war situation is no exception:

The empire-building bureaucrats of Brussels will use it to grab even more powers from the member states and transfer them to Brussels.

According to the prime minister, this must be resisted:

We must not allow Brussels to use the war as a pretext to take even more money from us, to take even more powers, and to take on even more debt. We must stand against this, or we’ll suffer the consequences,

he warned. In conclusion, he made clear what the coming political period will be about:

The battle of the next one or two years will be about: whether the Brussels bureaucrats, under the pretext of Ukraine and the war, succeed in taking even more money from Hungarians and the other member states, and in stripping more rights from Hungarians and centralizing them in Brussels?

Cover photo: Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban (Photo: MTI)