Speaking about the "anti-Semitic rock band that praises terrorism", Orban said it was important that Hungary was "an island of freedom and peace in a world that has turned upside-down", and that no one could be assaulted either physically or verbally for their heritage or faith.

He said the organisers of Budapest’s Sziget Festival "should’ve been smart enough" not to invite the group and spare Hungary from this situation in the first place.

Referring to other musicians who have disparaged the government and their supporters in recent weeks, Orban said: "Something is clearly amiss in Hungarian showbusiness just before the election." He said he understood that "everyone has to make money, but money can’t be that important."

Meanwhile, Orbán says 'Hungary will be great and wealthy'

The core of Hungary’s national strategy is that the country will be "great and wealthy", Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his address at the Balvanyos Summer University in Baile Tusnad, in Romania, on Saturday.

Orban said the basic premise of Hungary’s "grand strategy" was that "when Hungary’s defeat was cemented in 1920, the country’s enemies decided that Hungary will be small and poor."

"We are in politics ... to change this destiny, which means Hungary will be great and wealthy; this is the core of the Hungarian national strategy," the prime minister said.

Orban said Hungary’s grand strategy also had to answer the question of "where people will come from". "We’re not preparing to import any people," he said, emphasising that Hungary needed to be a "family-friendly nation".

Hungary, he said had the most generous family support scheme in the European Union. He noted that the new Home Start subsidies credit scheme was giving young people a chance to be a part of the nation, not just culturally but also as homeowners, which he said would ultimately strengthen families, young people and the nation overall.

Ruling parties setting up 'digital civic circles', announces Orbán

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced that the ruling parties are setting up so-called digital civic circles as "there is a need for a digital civic force" which counters the "culture of destruction" online.

Speaking at the 34th Balvanyos Summer Open University and Student Camp in Baile Tusnad (Tusvanyos) on Saturday, Orban said the website containing all relevant information would soon be launched.

He said the digital civic circles would be significant in terms of the 2026 election but went "far beyond that".

"We, the right-wing, bourgeois, Christian conservative, national community in Hungary, must do something about the virtual space. Today it is hostile territory, and this is not good," he said.

In the past 15 years, he added, webcams had replaced coffee shops and "we have moved conversations to chatrooms".

"And if something does not start from the internet, nothing comes of it", he added.
 

While this was true the world over, "rudeness, insults, trolling and digital violence" were especially Hungarian, he said.

Anyone who takes a "non-leftist, non-progressive, non-Liberal" stance is "attacked, mocked, and their dignity violated", Orban said, adding that "something must be done about this".

The prime minister referred to the establishment of the Hungarian ruling alliance's "Fight Club" set up to combat the "digital aggression" of the Tizsa Party.

But there were those who were "fed up with" conflict, he said, "which is why we need ... a space for those who do not want to take part in direct political battles, but want to participate in nation-building instead."

 

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