The Brussels repression machine in Hungary is still operating, but we will deal with it after the elections, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced in his annual state-of-the-nation address delivered on Saturday in Budapest, summarizing the past year.
“Pseudo-civic organizations, bribed journalists, judges, politicians, algorithms, and bureaucrats handling millions of euros. That is what Brussels is in Hungary today,” Prime Minister Orbán said, adding that “foreign influences restricting Hungarian sovereignty must be pushed out.”
In his speech, the Hungarian leader referred to a report by the U.S. Congress that sharply criticized the European Commission for forcing American technology companies to censor selected content ahead of elections in several European countries.
“This is the real voice of America. We must get used to the idea that those who love freedom should fear not the East, but Brussels, and should look at Brussels with concern,”
Orbán stated.
He warned that if current trends continue, this century will become “the century of Europe’s humiliation,” because the continent, viewed by the prime minister as incapable of participating in the new global industrial revolution, will, for the first time since the invention of the steam engine, become a victim rather than a driver of economic transformation.
He blamed “crippling energy costs and excessive regulations” for “killing” Europe’s economy. However, the prime minister assessed that Hungary “still has a chance,” noting that in 2025 he negotiated agreements with the presidents of the United States, Russia, and Turkey to maintain the country’s access to affordable oil and gas from Russia.
The Hungarian prime minister stressed that his real opponent is not the domestic opposition, but the European Union, which “wants war.” He accused “international big business” of seeking to prolong the war in Ukraine, “by the hands of Ukrainians themselves or, if necessary, by the hands of other Central European nations.”
“It is time for Hungary to wake up and take seriously, deadly seriously, what international big business is preparing,”
the Hungarian prime minister emphasized.
The prime minister linked the country’s largest opposition party, Tisza, to foreign subjects. “It is absolutely clear that the oil industry, the banking elite, and the Brussels establishment are preparing to form a government in Hungary,” he said, describing Peter Magyar’s grouping as “a creation of Brussels.”
Parliamentary elections in Hungary will be held on April 12. Most independent polls give the TISZA party a lead of several to more than a dozen percentage points over Orbán’s Fidesz party.