The European Union has rejected Christianity, is carrying out a population swap and is conducting an LGBTQ campaign, Viktor Orban said in his speech in Transylvania. The Hungarian prime minister said that day by day we are moving towards a confrontation in world politics, which is in a dangerous situation because the number one superpower is sensing itself sink into second place. The PM summed up the coming tasks as follows: to be sensible in major world affairs, to build connections in the world economy, to fight in the EU disputes, to persevere in intellectual matters and to remain steadfast in national unification.

„We arrived here cutting through Romanian troops, but we would prefer to see them as a reception committee,” Viktor Orban said Saturday morning in his traditional speech at the Balvanyos Free Summer University and Student Camp in Baile Tusnad (Tusnadfurdo), Romania. The PM added that Romanian Orthodoxy is also needed in the ongoing struggle to protect Christianity. „The Romanian foreign ministry came to my aid and told me what I should not talk about. They advised us not to talk about things that might offend Romanian sensitivities,” he said, such as collective minority rights, but PM Orban indicated that these exist and are due to Hungarians.

he stated and noted that there are topics he was allowed to talk about, such as Western values, provided he didn’t speak of them in a negative way.

„Today, Western values ​​mean three things: migration, LGBTQ and war. They don’t need to be portrayed in a negative light because they are bad in and of themselves,” he added.

The prime minister emphasized that we are living in a particularly dangerous period in the history of mankind, these are the years of great change. They affect every point and country on Earth. Therefore, if we want to say something valid about Hungary and Hungarians in the Carpathian Basin, it is best to talk about the world first. The balance of power in the world has shifted, and we are now suffering the serious consequences of this. After the Second World War, there was a balance of power for eighty years. „For us Hungarians, this consisted of two parts,” he said.

PM Orban explained, continuing, „But now China has shifted the balance of the world. This is an old fear of the Western world.” He also recalled Napoleon’s words:

„let China sleep, because when it wakes up, it will shake the world”.

There has never been such a rapid and tectonic change in the global balance as we are living in today. China is rising differently from how the US did because the US came to be while China has been and is. In fact, we are talking about the return of China, which has become a production powerhouse and has overtaken even the United States.

PM Orban said that after the civil war, the United States grew up thinking that they were the number one country and that when this position was challenged, the US always successfully refuted it. „For a few decades, the EU had plans to develop the euro on par with the dollar,” he explained, adding that the United States successfully repelled the EU’s attempt to come along side it.

In 2010, both the US and the EU contributed 22-23 per cent to world production, while today the EU contributes only 17 and the US 25 per cent.

he noted, pointing out that the dominance of the US is constantly weakening and that processes today favour Asia.

„Asia and China stand before us in full superpower attire, they have self-respect and a long-term plan. They want to end the century of humiliation. They want to regain dominance over Asia. And the universal values of the US are laughed at by the Chinese,” he said. Every day we are moving closer to a clash. We are in a dangerous situation in world politics because the number one power sees itself falling back to second place, he added.

From this assessment of the situation, we must understand that a new balance will not be achieved overnight, it will take a generation, he said. So not just we, but our children will also live their lives in these times. We Hungarians have to live in this spirit of the times and make national plans, he stressed.

EU feels hemmed in

Assessing the European Union, PM Orban said that people have the feeling that the EU is plagued by anxiety and feels hemmed in. It is a rich and weak bloc that sees a world in revolt, with millions of people heading for Europe.

As he said, there had been a Latin American summit in Brussels where the most common phrases in the vocabulary of Latin American leaders were the extermination of indigenous peoples, the slave trade, reparative justice. This is the way they think. No wonder the EU feels trapped.

If we look at the International Monetary Fund’s list of countries by GDP, we see that Britain, Italy and France are projected to fall out of the top ten by 2030 and Germany, now fourth, will have dropped to tenth. The EU is like an aging boxing champion, showing off his medals but no longer willing to get back in the ring. The result is isolation in an economic, political and cultural ghetto,” he said.

Viktor Orban also said that big European companies do not want to leave Russia.

He pointed out that 70 percent of energy companies are still present in Russia and that Western companies have paid $3.5 billion into the Russian budget. „The attack launched by Ukraine against OTP Bank is mere Hungarophobia,” he stressed. He pointed out that Brexit has upset the balance between federalists and sovereignists in the EU. „Only the Poles and the Hungarians are holding out, but there is a chance for new allies,” he said. The prime minister recalled that the federalists had openly said they wanted a change of government in Hungary and were financing the opposition with all the means of political corruption.

„If you read the constitutions of European countries, you will see that the ‘I’ is at the center of those documents, while the ‘we’ is at the center of the Hungarian constitution,” Mr Orban said. Peace, family, justice and freedom cannot be achieved alone, he said. The common things in the life of the individual are expressed in terms of attachment, while liberal constitutions are not written on the basis of attachment but detachment, he stressed. „We made the right decision when we created the Hungarian, national, Christian constitution in 2011,” the prime minister said, adding that the migration crisis and the LGBTQ campaign could not be fought back on liberal grounds.

He said that the continent had collided with two meteors in three years, the first being Covid in 2020, which we dodged, but the war of 2022 knocked us off course. „The government is fighting to get us back on course, which will take us to 2030. The earliest we can get back on track is around July 2024,” the premier predicted.

The hard part is over and that inflation could be in single digits by the end of the year, the prime minister said. If all goes well, he will be able to talk about the plans for 2030-2040 at the 2024 camp in Baile Tusnad, he added.

Orban concluded his speech by saying that „we must keep our wits about us when it comes to great world affairs, we must build connections in the world economy, we must fight in EU disputes, we must persevere in intellectual matters, and we must remain steadfast in national unification.”