Hungarians believe that the upcoming European Parliament elections will be about war and peace, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with public radio on Friday. „And of course also about migration and the protection of traditional families, but the question of war now comes before all other important issues,” he added. The prime minister said that in the future this European election „could easily be regarded as the one in which the question of war and peace was decided”. Beyond all the suffering, the war also generates profits for the military industry and arms dealers, he said. People with insider information about the war, those involved in speculation and not in production, in other words venture capital speculators, were among those supporting war, including US financier George Soros, he added.
„Some politicians can be bought, such as those on the Hungarian left, who are financed by the pro-war financiers,” he said. It was no surprise, Orbán added, that the Hungarian left was pro-war „despite the will of left wing voters”. The prime minister said it was unclear to him why the leaders of big European countries had a pro-war stance. The root cause of Europe’s most serious problems such as a demographic decline and migration was war, he said, adding that every war fought in Europe in the past 100-150 years „caused losses to everyone involved”.
He said „the last resort” in efforts „to compete against the pro-war circles of interest” were the people, the voters, „because Europe, after all, is a democracy”. Orbán said he anticipated that a growing number of people supporting peace would cast their ballots in next month’s EP elections, adding that „I would be satisfied if at least the people could stop the process of drifting into the war with their votes”. „But with that only half of the job would be done … because the other half would have to be done later, in the United States,” he said, making reference to the presidential elections in November.
On another subject, Orbán said that the European Court had made „an outrageous decision” obliging Hungary to pay a daily fine worth around 6 million forints (EUR 15,000) to Brussels just because it refused to accept migrants. Orbán said it was more than shocking and „absolute nonsense” that while Hungary was protecting Europe, spending several billion euros on border protection, it was „shot in the back from Brussels”. „The only answer to that is that we must send away the European leaders who make such decisions,” Orbán said.