traveling to Vienna, the Hungarian Prime Minister maintained, Thursday, July 28, his words last weekend, by which he assured that Hungary wanted “not to be a mixed race” which would mix with “no -Européens “.
Le Monde with AFP
Despite the outcry wiped since Saturday, he maintains his words and goes even further. The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, defended Thursday, from Austria, “a cultural point of view” after his virulent speech last weekend, where he castigated “the mixture of races”.
“It sometimes happens that I speak in a way that can be misunderstood, but I asked the Chancellor [Karl Nehammer] to kindly place the information in a cultural context,” he said during From a press conference in Vienna, held with his Austrian counterpart, the conservative chancellor, Karl Nehammer. “In Hungary, these expressions and sentences represent a cultural, civilizational point of view”, added Mr. Orban.
The 59 -year -old Hungarian nationalist leader, accustomed to shine and fiercely antimigrant blows, had rejected the vision of a “multiethnic” society on Saturday. “We do not want to be a mixed race”, which would mix with “non-Europeans”, he said, before making an apparent allusion to the gas chambers of the Nazi regime.
indignation of The Jewish community and resignation of a counselor
The survivors of the Shoah and the Hungarian Jewish community condemned on Saturday with force the “racist hints” of the Prime Minister’s speech, calling for the European Union – and Karl Nehammer in particular – to “take their distance” with the Far-right leader.
Rare fact under the Orban era, Zsuzsa Hegedüs, a longtime sociologist and whose parents have survived the Shoah, resigned Tuesday. She denounced “a shameful position” and “a pure Nazi text worthy of [Joseph] Goebbels”, in reference to the former head of the propaganda of Nazi Germany.
In an open letter, Mr. Orban then defended himself by brandishing “the zero tolerance policy of his government when it comes to anti -Semitism and racism”.
Since then, the European Commission has refused to comment. Sans citer M. Orban, seul le vice-président de l’institution Frans Timmermans a réagi mercredi on Twitter , castigating racism, “a toxic political invention” which “should not have its place in Europe”.
antimigrant policy
During their common press conference on Thursday, Karl Nehammer condemned “firmly all forms of racism and anti -Semitism” and assured that he had addressed “frankly” the question with Mr. Orban. “We are in perfect agreement,” reacted the Hungarian Prime Minister, saying “proud” of the policy of “zero tolerance” carried out by Hungary.
Before this new controversy, the Austrian conservative manager was delighted to welcome an “important neighbor and partner”. “The two countries are strongly affected by illegal migration, which we want to fight together,” he wrote on Twitter .
Since his return to power, in 2010, Viktor Orban transformed his country by implementing “illiberal” reforms, based on the “defense of a Christian Europe”. It has attacked migrants from Africa and the Middle East and NGOs to help them, hardening the right of asylum and erecting border barriers.
This trip to Austria of Mr. Orban is his first official visit to one of the twenty-seven member states of the European Union since his re-election, triumphant, at the beginning of April.