Hungary's Orban warns economic migration endangers Europeans

  • 9 years ago
First he marched in Paris for free speech. Millions of French people and world leaders were supporting inter-cultural unity. Then Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban went home to declare that immigration to Europe should be largely halted. He has called for migration curbs in the past. Now Orban says it is time for Brussels to get tough.

According to Orban: “Economic migration is a bad thing in Europe. We should not look at it as something useful, because it only means trouble and danger to the European people. Migration should be stopped. That’s Hungary’s opinion. We don’t want to ingest a significant minority with a cultural nature and background that is different from ours. We would like to keep Hungary Hungarian.”

The only exception, Orban said, should be for people claiming political asylum. And yet the prime minister conceded that minorities living in Hungary pose no particular problem. The country of some 10 million re-instated Orban’s right-wing government for a second co