The European court, however, stood by the European Commission, he said, opening the door to attempts to make Europe into a continent of mixed populations and cultures.

“They have opened the door to [US financier] George Soros’s plan, and I expect they will accelerate its implementation in the coming period,” Orbán said. “If a country considers that an EU decision will affect its national identity ... then it must oppose it,” the PM said.

Orbán said Hungary would gladly help Germany remove from the continent migrants who had arrived in Europe.
Hungary has always respected Schengen rules, and by spending on border protection, it has protected Europe, he said. This is why, in the name of solidarity, the European Commission has been asked to pay for half of the costs of the fence, Orbán said.

Brussels is applying double standards on the matter and this is why a new commission and a new way of thinking is needed, he said.

People who cooperated with the colonialists in the former colonies had to leave the country when the imperialists left, which is why several European countries have become “immigrant countries”, he said.

“And they now want to force their own logic on central Europe. But this region has never contained colonialists and therefore it has no such obligations,” Orbán said. “We are not a colonial country ... and I will never help a large power of any kind ... make us into an immigrant country.”

He also rejected making immigration a precondition of EU funding, stating that this would be against EU rules. “Though in the light of the recent European court decision, one cannot exclude the possibility that European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker would manage to push that proposition through.”

Such a decision would be immoral because Hungarians working in western companies’ plants in Hungary, for instance, earn less money than people working in the company’s home country. “If I were German, I would be ashamed to bring up the issue of solidarity”, he said.

At the same time, the prime minister said Hungarians had decided to join the EU in a referendum, and this had been the right decision. So no government should pull Hungary out of it, Orbán added.

Republished with permission of Hungary Matters, MTI’s daily newsletter.