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    • Let’s see who is really allergic to critical thinking

    So reasonable administrative requirements that they resemble those in Spain...

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    Let’s see who is really allergic to critical thinking

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    FM: The UN is making the same mistake with its Global Migration Compact as the EU made with mandatory migrant settlement quotas

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    PM Orbán on the double-standards of Brussels: ‘Democracy is stronger today in central Europe than in western Europe’

    “Whoever comes after Hungary, or tries to bite Hungary, had better brandish sharp teeth because we do not tolerate that”

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    Brace yourselves! The progressive elite of The New York Times editorial board is so woke about Hungary

    The Manhattan media clique is so woke

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    FM Péter Szijjártó: Hungary backs Ukraine’s territorial integrity and independence, but we’re watching the minority issues closely

    On minority rights, "the ball is in Ukraine’s court,” said Minister Szijjártó

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    PM Orbán in Prague: On the rough terrain of European politics, only the brave ones survive

    Following his stop in Bratislava to attend the Friends of Cohesion summit, PM Orbán met Andrej Babiš in Prague

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    PM Orbán on the double-standards of Brussels: ‘Democracy is stronger today in central Europe than in western Europe’

    Dec 07, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “The Hungarian national economy has become a powerful and shock resistant economy, one that is able to provide jobs for the people,” Prime Minister Orbán said this morning, commenting on Q3 GDP growth topping 5 percent. In his regular radio interview, the PM talked about the reasons behind Hungary’s economic success, the ongoing national consultation and the affronts coming from Brussels.

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    PM Orbán: Forbidding the people to talk about something will only backfire

    Nov 23, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “The issue of the migrant debit cards came as a surprise even for weather-beaten veterans like me,” Prime Minister Orbán said this morning, adding that handing out anonymous debit cards to “people we don’t know” is a direct threat to the lives of Europeans. In his regular Friday morning radio interview, the PM talked about migration, Brexit, former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and relations with neighboring countries.

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    PM Orbán: Nation states gave Europe its strength

    Oct 23, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “We would have never thought,” Prime Minister Orbán said, that 29 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, Europe – once again – has to face a massive challenge. This time, it’s not “an external military threat, American or Russian endeavors that put Europe’s future in jeopardy,” but it’s Europe itself. This is why “we have to vote for the future of patriotism and national pride,” the PM said.

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    Brussels just keeps turning out more pro-migration plans

    Oct 13, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    Brussels has just published its latest plans, and it’s a “collection of horror stories for the Hungarian people.” In his regular Friday morning radio interview Prime Minister Orbán touched on a number of topics, including Brussels’ intention to take away from member states their authority to protect the border, the global conflict between globalists and nationalists and the main driving force behind Hungarian foreign policy.

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    No surrender: Hungarian borders must be protected by Hungarians

    Sep 21, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    PM Orbán has been saying it for years. Europe must make border security the top priority, before any discussion of quotas or anything of the kind. Now, as we heard in Salzburg this week, some are finally coming around to the stark reality that protecting Europe’s border is serious business. That’s generally a step in the right direction, but some of the proposals out there take things off track.

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    PM Orbán in Moscow: Hungary values its good relations with Russia

    Sep 19, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “It is in Hungary’s national interest that cooperation between the two parts of Europe are as good as possible,” PM Orbán said following his meeting with President Putin, adding that Hungary-Russia connections play a special role in this relation. During his joint press conference with the Russian president, the prime minister talked about the expansion of the Paks nuclear plant, future natural gas shipments, economic relations between the two countries and the protection of the persecuted of Christians.

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    PM Orbán: Christian democracy defends us from migration, it helps protect our borders and support families

    May 25, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “We can’t carry out the work of the next four years without inserting it into a long-term plan,” said Prime Minister Orbán this morning in his regular interview with Hungary’s public Kossuth Radio. The PM shared specific plans, touched upon the emptiness of liberal democracy, talked about an upcoming national consultation and explained how the Stop Soros package will bolster Hungary’s security.

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    PM Orbán: A mandatory migrant quota is out of the question, external borders must be defended

    Mar 22, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    They’re not giving in, those who see quotas and pro-immigration policies as Europe’s answer to the migration crisis. We’ll see a “decisive showdown” in June, said Prime Minister Orbán this week, when the EU’s heads of state and government will gather in Brussels again. Immigration will feature as one of the overriding issues on the agenda.

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    PM Orbán addresses crowd of unprecedented numbers: “Our biggest battle is about to begin”

    Mar 15, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “They want to take our country away. Not with the stroke of a pen like they did a hundred years ago in Trianon,” said Prime Minister Orbán in his March 15th address before a crowd estimated in the hundreds of thousands to commemorate the 170th anniversary of Hungary’s 1848 Revolution and War of Independence, “but that we voluntarily hand it over to others in the decades to come.”

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    Here’s what we mean when we talk about Orbanomics

    Mar 09, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “I believe in simple things – work, homeland, families,” Prime Minister Orbán said earlier this week in his address to the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce. He then reiterated the four pillars that define Hungary’s economy policies: competitiveness, a workfare society, good demographics and identity-based politics. “All decisions made by this government could fit into these categories.”

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    PM Orbán in Welt am Sonntag: ‘We cannot help the world while destroying our own people’

    Jan 16, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    Syrians running for their lives have every right to enter the first safe state they reach, but the EU shouldn’t let them march through Europe. Schengen, one of the EU’s greatest achievements has to be protected because if we fail to defend our external borders then the internal ones will have to be closed again. Prime Minister Orbán in Welt am Sonntag on migration, Europe, Germany and the mutual lack of understanding between East and West.

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    PM Orbán in Bild: We didn’t want migrants, you did - now accept the consequences

    Jan 11, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    “We didn’t want migrants, you did,” Prime Minister Orbán said in an interview published this week in the German daily Bild, adding that Germany and Angela Merkel’s infamous Wilkommenskultur were at the forefront of support for immigration. Prime Minister Orbán, however, has pushed for a different approach, insisting that the borders of Europe must be protected to preserve the freedoms achieved within the EU and that illegal immigration has a direct impact on security.

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    PM Orbán: European Court decision won’t change Hungary’s immigration policies

    Sep 08, 2017

    Hungary is a member of the European Union, EU treaties must be respected, therefore the rulings of the European Court of Justice must be acknowledged, said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán this morning in response to the decision from the European Court of Justice on migrant quotas. However, he added, that is not a reason to change Hungary’s immigration policies, which reject mass migration.

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    PM Orbán: Hungary brings order to a disorderly Europe

    Jun 30, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács

    Speaking to graduating class of police and border patrol officers last weekend, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had a simple message. It emphasized the outstanding achievement of Hungary’s uniformed services and how they have shown Europe that, if a country so wishes, it can uphold both the Dublin Protocol and the Schengen Treaty. And if everyone does their duty, Europe’s borders can be protected and mass migration can be controlled.

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    PM Orbán: Differences between Hungary and Germany on migration are now over

    Apr 22, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács

    “When I visit southern Germany, I always find time to visit Mr. Chancellor [Kohl],” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán about his latest meeting with former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, adding that they discussed the future of Europe and bilateral relations between Germany and Hungary. Today, in his regular biweekly radio interview, the prime minister had several interesting things to say about both. A few things that may surprise you.

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    PM Orbán: Hungary celebrates paying off debt, will propose alternative to EU’s quota system

    Apr 08, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács

    In his regular, radio interview on Friday morning, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that, on the EU’s quota system, “it cannot be the case that one member state alone makes a decision and the others suffer the consequences.” He also spoke about the symbolic significance of paying off the loan and that Hungary has good reason to celebrate this weekend.

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    Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to hold talks with Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurría in Paris, and to travel to Germany on 18 April

    Apr 07, 2016

    The Prime Minister’s Press Chief Bertalan Havasi has informed kormany.hu that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has travelled to Paris, where on Thursday he will hold talks with Secretary-General of the OECD Angel Gurría. During his visit the Prime Minister will also hold informal meetings with a number of important figures in French politics.

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    “Every form of terror should be denounced and combatted,” says PM Orbán

    Mar 22, 2016

    “I’d like to express, in the name of the whole country, my commiseration and condolences to the relatives of the victims,” said Prime Minister Orbán today in the Hungarian town of Tatabánya, briefing journalists on the government’s response to the terror attacks in Brussels this morning. Earlier today Prime Minister Orbán and President Áder sent letters of condolence to Brussels and the prime minister issued a public statement.

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    EU Migration Summit: Hungary says no to mandatory resettlement

    Mar 18, 2016

    “For the past several days we’ve working on behalf of the Hungarian interest that any kind of refugee exchange, settlement or movement of people would only happen on a voluntary basis. We have a chance to achieve this,” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán upon his arrival at the EU Council meeting on Thursday. In response to a journalist asking about his prognosis, the prime minister confided, “I always feel good before a summit. Let’s see afterwards.”

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    PM Orbán asks "Shall we Live in Slavery or Freedom?"

    Mar 17, 2016

    Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the nation on the steps of the National Museum on March 15, 2016. His speech looked to the past and pointed out that Hungary's most successful revolutions were when the freedom of the country was threatened. Tying the past to present the Prime Minister spoke in plain but strong language aimed at Brussels and the threat that uncontrolled migration poses to not just Hungary but all of Europe.

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    PM Orbán: ‘The time has come that we must save Europe’s future’

    Mar 15, 2016

    “No European nation can be free if Europe is not [free],” said Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, “and today, Europe is not.” Addressing a crowd gathered in front of the National Museum, the prime minister was speaking today on the March 15th holiday, the anniversary of the outbreak of the 1848 Revolution, a national uprising that grew into a war of independence from the Austrian Empire.

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    'Defending Schengen With Mere Words Is Not Enough," Says PM Orbán

    Jan 22, 2016

    Europe has two types of countries, said Prime Minister Orbán during the joint press availability following his meeting in Ljubljana, January 22, with Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar. There are "ones which defend Schengen with words, and others which do so with actions. We both fall into the second category." nyomtatás Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s statement after the Slovenian-Hungarian government summit 22 January 2016 22 January 2016, Ljubljana

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    “The Route May Move in Any Direction, But One Thing Is Certain: It Will Not Go Through Hungary"

    Jan 22, 2016

    Hungary pursues "a migration policy which of course grants political refugees all the possibilities afforded by international law," the prime minister said, "but which does not allow anyone else in.” In his Friday interview on state radio, January 22, the prime minister talked about migration, the taxi versus Uber conflict, and the new family housing allowance program.

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    PM Orbán: 'Liberalism No Longer Stands Up for Freedom, but for Political Correctness'

    Nov 13, 2015

    “We have lost that which made the European continent attractive," said the prime minister in this interview with a Swiss weekly, "and that which we Hungarians found so attractive in it: free political debate. Political correctness has turned the EU into some kind of royal court, where everyone must behave themselves, while all the time migration is an urgent challenge for us."

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