For this reason, Hungary, just like the rest of central Europe, will bide its time. With the right financial, monetary and economic policy, the forint can stay strong for decades, he added.

Viktor Orbán also said that through the recent presidential elections, Poland rejected the idea to join the eurozone in the foreseeable future as well and as things stand now, the Czech Republic also keeps its national currency.

Concerning the growing debate on immigration, Viktor Orbán told the newspaper that in terms of Hungary’s size and geographical situation, it would be highly vulnerable were a mistake to be made in migration policy, and the consequences could be irreversible.

Speaking about multiculturalism, he said this is defined as the mixing of various civilisations and the co-existence of Islam, Asian religions and Christianity.

“We’re going to do everything to make sure that Hungary escapes this,” he said, adding that Hungary is glad to receive investors, artists and scientists from non-Christian countries, “but we don’t want large masses of them to get mixed together”. “This co-existence in Europe doesn’t work,” Viktor Orbán said.

Europe is experiencing modern-day migration, which can in an “irreversible” process change the face of its whole civilisation, Orbán said yesterday at a conference marking former German chancellor Helmut Kohl’s 85th birthday.

There would be “no return” from a multicultural Europe, “either to a Christian Europe or to the world of national cultures”, he warned the audience.

Meanwhile the Hungarian opposition parties continue to criticize harshly the government’s migration policy after news portal index.hu published a photo of a highly controversial poster, which is allegedly a part of the government’s planned anti-immigration campaign.

Source: hungarytoday.hu

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MTI photo: Koszticsák Szilárd