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Viktor Orbán’s speech at the 28th Bálványos Summer Open University and Student Camp

PM Orbán: ‘The question of the coming decades: Will Europe belong to Europeans?’

“Twenty-seven years ago, we believed our future is Europe - right now, we are Europe’s future."

Why do these NGOs resist transparency?

In Hungary, everyone, even NGOs supported by George Soros, must abide by the law.

PM Orbán: “A nation that can’t protect its borders is non-existent”

Every nation must protect its border, otherwise “it will vanish”

Where have I heard this before?

If there’s a reason that sounds somewhat familiar, it’s because Prime Minister Orbán has been saying this for years

PM Netanyahu to PM Orbán: ‘Thank you for standing up for Israel’ at the forefront of opposition to this new anti-Semitism

“Standing with Israel,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said to Prime Minister Orbán, “it’s also standing with the truth.”

FINA World Aquatics Championships begin with grandiose show on the Danube

Hungary's biggest ever sports event took off with a spectacular ceremony

No government has done more to fight anti-Semitism in Hungary than PM Orbán’s

Meanwhile, an extremist political party that has a long, troubling history of anti-Semitism is largely ignored.

Immigration

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Hungarians have decided that they do not want illegal immigrants in their country

Jun 16, 2017

PM Orbán insisted that “record high” participation in the government’s latest nationwide public survey means that “a whole nation is looking for ways to support its position of denying entry to people of a different culture or civilization”

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Hungary says EU directive on immigration goes against Geneva Convention

May 11, 2017

The Geneva Convention expressly prohibits asylum seekers who are granted asylum in a certain country from being resettled to another country

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PM Orbán warns of a changing European society amid the migrant crisis

Apr 27, 2017

The prime minister stated that in the process of migration two cultures are coming into contact with each other. He stressed that these two cultures will not mix, migrants will not integrate, and there is no chance of a new and better result

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Conservatives should take on “fight with the Left” to save Europe, says PM Orbán

Mar 30, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

In the face of a political adversary that wants to transform Europe by allowing unbridled immigration, casting aside subsidiarity and encumbering the labor markets with bureaucratic rules, the center-right political forces of Europe must summon the confidence to “accept the intellectual and political fight with the Left,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, addressing the European People’s Party Congress in Malta today.

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Dear New York Times Editors: You just don’t get it, do you?

Mar 14, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

“Clearly, Mr. Orban is playing the European Union for a patsy,” the New York Times editors write in a piece published yesterday. “At what point will the union have the courage to take action against his policies?”

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PM Orbán: Reducing immigration and protecting "ethnic homogeneity" is key to Hungary's success

Mar 01, 2017

Hungary's government "cannot risk changing the fundamental ethnic character of the country," the prime minister said. He added that it would not enhance the value of the country but downgrade it instead, and turn it into chaos

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PM Orbán: Hungary's stance on immigration is becoming more widely acceptable in the EU

Dec 16, 2016

"Positions which were once condemned, despised, looked down upon and treated with contempt are becoming jointly-held positions," PM Orbán said

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President Áder: EU leaders should take note of Australia's immigration policy

Nov 11, 2016

The president met with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Governor-General Peter Cosgrove from Australia in Canberra on Thursday, where they discussed migration issues, climate change and a prospective global water crisis

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PM Orbán: Hungary’s border policy protects European freedom

Oct 20, 2016

PM Orbán said that his government’s stance on mass migration was a positive move to defend the values of European civilization