Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban believes mass migration is permanently transforming Germany. He is urging Hungarians to say “no” to a similar transformation of their country—as they cannot reverse it if it turns out to be a mistake.
Speaking to Hungarian radio in Germany, where he was meeting the embattled Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Orban said: “We’re sitting here in Germany, so if I compare this Germany with the Germany of ten years ago, it doesn’t look the same, it doesn’t taste the same, it doesn’t smell the same.”
“Taken as a whole, this Germany isn’t the Germany that our grandparents and our parents used to set before us as an example, saying, ‘Son, if you want to see a hard-working person, go to Germany, if you want to see well-organized work, go to Germany. If you want to see order, go there, where there’s order…’ Now this Germany is no longer that one,” he continued.
“It’s a colourful, transformed, multicultural world in which the migrants coming in are no longer guests of the country,” Orban said. “This is now their country too, and it’s increasingly becoming theirs.”
NO GOING BACK.
Orban says the changes in Germany have been driven by left-wing governments “granting fast-track citizenship, arranging family reunification [chain migration], and whatever else.” He warns this “has all kinds of repercussions, because now a specific cultural milieu has emerged here in Germany.”
Orban recalled that when hundreds of thousands of migrants began marching through Hungary in 2015, he made a decision that he would build a wall and stop them from coming, “otherwise Hungary will no longer be a Hungarian country.”
He stressed that “if you make a mistake in migration policy once, you cannot undo it later.” He explained that economic and social policy can be corrected, “but migration is one of the few areas in which, once you’ve made a mistake, you can never put it right again.”
Foreigners now account for 58.5 percent of all violent crimes in Germany, despite comprising only 14.6 percent of the population. Over 60 percent of welfare recipients have a migration background.
Earlier this month, European Union judges fined Hungary hundreds of millions of euros over its strong border policies.
