The foreign minister said Hungary and Poland are being “attacked” because their governments are going against the international liberal mainstream.
Commenting on Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s criticism of Hungary’s new child-protection law on Polish public television TVP Info, Péter Szijjártó said Hungary was “used to this kind of verbal aggression … from the liberal mainstream”. Minister Szijjártó stressed that the law served to protect children and their parents.
The minister said the attacks on Hungary and Poland will continue as long as they promote national interests and implement policies based on Christian values, and as long as the traditional family model remains a key element of their governments’ policies. “These kind of attacks aren’t based on any rational arguments,” the minister said. “But the explanation behind them is that someone wants to disempower the last governments that go against the international liberal mainstream.”
Minister Szijjártó said the Polish and Hungarian governments are among the few in the European Union that still understand conservative values and national interests and apply a traditional approach to the concept of the family. The mainstream refuses to accept this, “the same way they refuse to accept that these two governments were right to reject migrant redistribution quotas”, he added.