Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told a conference organized by the 21st Century Institute and the Mathias Corvinus Collegium, that "the sick man in Europe today is the European Union itself."
According to PM Orbán, the EU is unable to guarantee peace and security in Europe and its immediate neighborhood; it cannot ensure Europe's welfare, stem illegal migration or provide a perspective to Europe's agriculture.
PM Orbán insisted that the bureaucrats in Brussels could not be convinced, and while "the EU sees failure after failure, the Brussels institutions are getting stronger and stronger, and seek to obtain further powers."
"In Brussels, they do not at all think that the EU is sick; they think the EU is working as it should, while the objective of European integration is integration itself: building a bureaucracy ruling over the nation states," PM Orbán said.
PM Orbán said the "treatment to heal the EU" required change, which could be achieved "through political means, from the outside, and through taking on conflicts with Brussels". He said, however, that "facilities inside the EU" could also be resorted to, adding that "we Hungary are the opposition of the regime in Brussels."