Both the Hungarians and the Poles have the right to expect more respect from the former and current leaders of the United States, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told public radio MR1 on Friday morning. This was a response to former U.S. President Bill Clinton's recent remark that these two countries decided that democracy is "too much trouble" and now they want Putin-like leadership.

"Poland and Hungary, two countries that would not be free, but for the United States and the long Cold War, have now decided this democracy is too much trouble. They want Putin-like leadership. Just give me an authoritarian dictatorship and keep the foreigners out." Clinton said on 13 May speaking at a rally in New Jersey in support of wife Hillary's U.S. presidential campaign.
Orbán noted he liked what Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of Poland's conservative ruling party (PiS) replied that Clinton should have his head examined.
"If someone says there is no democracy in Poland today, that means he should have a medical test," the former Polish prime minister told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
"The opinion of President Bill Clinton is unfair," said Rafal Sobczak, head of the Poland Foreign Ministry spokesman's office. "We understand, however, that it was voiced in the context of the internal electoral campaign in the U.S."
"We would like to stress, however, that this is not the official position of the American administration," Sobczak told AP in an email.
Orbán said the negative remarks made about Hungary, Poland and Central and Eastern Europe in general have become more frequent since the migrant crisis are not off the cuff comments. "Behind the leaders of the Democratic Party [...] we need to recognise George Soros" who said at least one million Muslims should be let into Europe every year, Orbán said, adding that Hungary is an impediment to this Soros-type American plan.

Just a quick note from the Editor: The most notable beneficiary of Soros' billions is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán himself, who the US-Hungarian financier bankrolled to learn the ways of Western democracy at Pembroke College, Oxford, although he cut short his year to join the Velvet Revolution in Prague in autumn 1989. Many other members of the early Fidesz leadership including MEP József Szájer and former foreign ministry state secretary Zsolt Németh also attended the British institution, thanks to a Soros Foundation grant.
Furthermore, former Hungarian ambassador to Oslo, Géza Jeszenszky, served as a board member of the Soros Foundation for higher education matters for much of the 1990s.
Many other Fidesz officials have enjoyed Soros' support over the last 25 years. Alongside the Open Society Institute, which is headquartered in Budapest, Soros' most significant contribution to Hungarian life has arguably been Central European University (CEU), which would be far and away Hungary's top university in the global rankings, if they listed postgraduate-only institutions. CEU graduates close to the present government include former international spokesman Ferenc Kumin, incumbent Zoltán Kovács and Brussels embassy secretary Károly Grúber.
Perhaps most surprisingly of all, the historian and director of the House of Terror Museum Mária Schmidt received Soros funding from 1988 for historical research on the Hungarian Holocaust, with the 1941 deportations of Jews to Kamenets-Podolskiy her specialist area.

János Lázár also described Hungarian-born American financier George Soros as a standard-bearer for Obama's immigration policies for Europe and said "certain American groups" want Europe to be "diluted [...] so Europe and America can co-operate without restraint."
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said he was unaware of Lázár's comments, but added: "I'm not sure they're worthy of a response."
According to a report by the website of local economic weekly HVG, Orbán also said he would be surprised if Hungary's referendum on the mandatory resettlement quota was not taken seriously by Brussels. He thinks that they can say whatever they want in the EU until people clearly express their opinion, but once they do in a referendum Brussels will back down.
As regards the government's family policy he said he'd prefer if more young people were in Hungary and that everyone felt that bringing up children does not imply existential disadvantage and poverty rather than it is a positive thing and even brings economic advantages, hvg.hu reported. Orbán said the economic means still need to be found so that families could cope with four or five children, adding that in order to achieve that the cabinet would need another two to three governing cycles.

Source: portfolio.hu

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 May 2016 06:13