Orbán: Europe envisioned by EPP would be bad for Hungarians

The prime minister said the EPP also had “a lot of economic demands”, such as that Hungary should not “tax their multinationals or torment their banks”.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that the Europe envisioned by the European People’s Party would be bad for Hungarians, adding that Brussels wanted to appoint a government of its own to replace the current Hungarian administration.

Commenting on an image released by the EPP featuring the prime minister with text that reads: “Time to go”, PM Orbán told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio that one of the reasons behind this could be Hungary’s position on the war. PM Orbán noted that he had proposed that the German chancellor and the French president begin talks with the Russians “either on their own or Europe’s behalf before the Americans arrive on the scene”.

Orbán said the EPP “took things up a notch” in the last European Parliament debate where it had announced that it wanted to replace Hungary’s government with one belonging to their own grouping so that it could “pursue policies that are to Brussels’ liking, like taking in migrants, entering the war, accepting gender ideology and scrapping the child protection regime in Hungary”.

Orbán said the EPP also had “a lot of economic demands”, such as that Hungary should not “tax their multinationals or torment their banks”.