Hungary’s government “was Donald Trump well before [US President] Donald Trump”, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Tuesday, adding that “the recipe for further success is to continue our existing policies of saying no to war, illegal migration and gender insanity.”
Speaking at the Central European Summit in Budapest, Péter Szijjártó said recent crises had led to the emergence of a “new world order”, adding that Trump’s inauguration in January had caused “a total shift with the world’s number one superpower now being led by a patriotic president.”
Szijjártó said these developments in the United States had disproved the liberal mainstream’s “belief in its own exclusivity, that only the liberal mainstream can be good and successful.”
“The reason why we are also under constant political attack is because we Hungarians are living refutations of the idea that it is exclusively the liberal mainstream that is good and successful,” he added, according to a ministry statement. “Because we are successful as patriots. And it is this combination of being patriotic and successful that they can’t stomach in Brussels.”
Szijjártó said the US president had begun delivering on his campaign promises, noting that Trump wanted to end the war in Ukraine and has entered into direct talks with Russia. Also, Trump had “cut off the financial resources for meddling in the internal affairs of other countries, and there’s a revolution of common sense: the father is a man and the mother a woman, and one is born either a man or a woman,” he added.
“No war, no migration, no gender is how you could sum up the revolution of common sense,” Szijjártó said. “And this strategy of Donald Trump is in line with the Hungarian strategy.”
“And it is without unnecessary modesty that we can say that we were Donald Trump before Donald Trump,” Szijjártó said. “Because like him, we say no to war, we say no to illegal migration, we say no to gender insanity, we pursue an economic policy based on common sense, and we base our foreign policy strategy on mutual respect.”
He said that the Hungarian government had been successful for the last 15 years despite the ” headwinds” it faced. “And if we want to ask what the recipe for our future success is, the simple answer would be ‘carrying on’,” he said. “Let’s keep being Donald Trump!”
“Because our aim continues to be to stay out of the war next door and to provide every support needed for achieving peace,” the minister said. “Our aim continues to be to stop illegal migration and reserve our sovereign right to decide whom we are willing to live together with. We’re committed to preserving our identity, and we’ll protect our children in the future as well.”
“Yesterday, this was given another important form of constitutional support against aggressive gender propaganda,” he said, referring to parliament’s vote to amend the Fundamental Law.
He said that “another part of the recipe for future success” was ensuring that Hungarians decided on key issues like Ukraine’s accession to the European Union. “For 15 years, we’ve been governing according to the will of the Hungarian people,” Szijjártó said. “And if we look at the actual definitions, this is what they call democracy. We are Europe’s strongest democracy because the government here has received a democratic mandate more times than any other government.”
‘Only Hungarians can stop Ukraine’s forced EU accession’
Hungarians are the only ones who are able to stop Ukraine’s European Union accession at a forced speed, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said on Tuesday, adding that such a step would “present impossible challenges for our economy” and ruin past achievements.
Szijjártó protested against “fresh proposals from Brussels on Ukraine”, which would send further arms and money, as well as military advisers. It would also make it possible for Ukraine “to join the EU before its official accession date”, he added, according to a ministry statement.
“Brussels is aiming to fully integrate Ukraine economically into the EU’s single market before the country would fully join the EU,” he said.
Szijjártó said the integration would result in Ukraine’s workforce “flooding” the European labour market, including Hungary. “This would mean that farmers working with a totally different set of standards, as well as GMO produce would flood the central European market, including Hungary, and poor quality, cheaper services would ruin many Hungarian companies.”
“Brussels has clearly decided to quickly push Ukraine into the European Union for political, ideological, philosophical, geopolitical and other reasons,” Szijjártó said.
Also, Szijjártó insisted that “Brussels knows full well” that Hungarians were the only ones capable of stopping that attempt. “First of all, we are brave enough to take on the Brussels liberal mainstream on our own, and we also have the political stability to oppose the Brussels steamrollers,” he said.
“That is why they are trying to produce a result showing that Hungarians actually support Ukraine’s accession,” he added.
In the past few days, “we were informed that the Tisza Party really supports Ukraine’s EU accession… The government’s stance, and Hungary’s, will depend on the voice and opinion of Hungarians” as presented in the referendum on the matter, Szijjártó said.
Meanwhile, Szijjártó said Ukraine had shown no readiness to regulate the situation of ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia in the past decade, who he said had been brutally stripped of their rights.
“Our expectations of Ukraine have been clear for ten years. Restore the rights Hungarians possessed in 2015, full stop. It’s not complicated…” he said.
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