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Illegal Migration: 'Good Morning Germany! Welcome to the Club!', Says Orbán

• 31 Jan 2025 11:43 AM

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said "Good morning Germany! Welcome to the club!" in an entry on the X platform on Thursday in response to the lower house of German parliament's having approved a resolution to tighten migration regulations.

Hungary has been condemned by the European Union for similar migration rules, and last June the European Court of Justice (ECJ) imposed a one-off fine of 200 million euros and additional daily 1 million euros on Hungary for violating EU migration policy and not fulfilling a 2020 December ruling by the court on violating the EU's migration directives.

Orban: 'Hands off pensions, 13th month pension!'

"Hands off pensions and the 13th month pension!" Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview to public radio on Friday, referring to "those in Brussels [who] want to take the 13th month pension away".

"Economists who back the opposition parties keep on saying that the 13th month pension is not right," Orban said. But the pensions "must be protected", and the government had saved them so far and "will insist" on doing so in the future too.

The 13th month pension "is a spiritual, psychological, political, and only lastly an economic issue," he added.

"If we want to forge a victorious nation ... we must resolve old problems," he said, adding that one of those old problems was the previous Socialist government's elimination of the 13th month pension.
 

Source: 
MTI - The Hungarian News Agency, founded in 1881.

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