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Who is the Main Threat to the Future of Europe?

3/25/2019

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On January 27, 2017, Viktor Orbán published an article titled "Hungary and the Crisis in Europe" in which he outlined Hungary's position on mass migration. The excerpts below are still as relevant today as they were two years ago. Say what you will about Orbán, but he is one of the few politicians in Europe who addresses mass migration with any level of honesty. He also has no qualms clearly stating where the blame for mass migration lies. 

I generally do not care much for politics, but current events in Britain and Europe have imposed themselves on the spiritual in ways that simply cannot be ignored. I am convinced Brexit and the upcoming European Parliamentary elections will be critical turning points in European history, complete with spiritual repercussions that will impact future generations.

I have posted the excerpt from Orbán's article below because I doubt it received any coverage in the West outside of Hungary when it was first published. If you feel so inclined, I encourage you to read the whole article in the link above. 

It is not impossible to put the brakes on mass migration. Europe is a 500-million-strong community in possession of sufficiently advanced technology, strategy, and economy to defend itself. That Brussels is incapable of organising the ranks of defence for Europe is bad news, but that it has no intention to do so is worse still. In Budapest, Warsaw, Prague or Bratislava, we find it difficult to comprehend how we have ended up in a position where we are supposed to allow anyone from another continent and culture to enter without any measure of control. How was it possible that the natural, indeed elemental, instinct to defend ourselves, our families, our homes, and our lands should atrophy in our civilization? Yet apparently it had done so.


And we discovered the fact in 2015 when everything changed overnight. The former consensus was shattered to pieces, and we awoke one morning to voices clamouring for Willkommenskultur and for changing all the previous rules and agreements in order to make good on the promise. The leaders of Europe keep telling us we must help. From the highest echelons of power, we are being entreated to open our homes in the name of solidarity.
If we hesitate to do so, we cannot be accused of callousness. We have learned the principal law of assistance: If we help them where we are, they will flock here; if we help them where they are, they will stay at home, in their native land.
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Instead of recognising this truth, Brussels began to encourage people living in some of the most impoverished and hapless parts of the planet to come to Europe, trading the life they knew for something different. How could this happen?

I for one am convinced that, in Brussels and a few other European capitals, the political and intellectual elite is pitted against the majority of the people, who still nourish patriotic and commonsense sympathies. Indeed, as far as I can see, the leading politicians are aware that this division exists. If indeed that is so, it means that the real problem is not on the outside but inside Europe. The main threat to the future of Europe are not those who want to come here to live, but our own political, economic and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the will of the European people.

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Read the rest here.

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palintropos
3/26/2019 01:33:17

Me, I hope Orbán is able to survive.

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