Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that as soon as the European Parliament’s left wing had announced that they had made agreement at an informal EU summit this week, the European People’s Party, „which calls itself right-wing but moves towards the left with every alliance”, joined them, agreeing on a programme „that isn’t good for Hungary and differs from the way Hungarians think.” „This is a pro-war coalition that has banded together to speed up Europe’s slide into the war,” he said, adding that Germany was undergoing a level of militarisation unprecedented since the second world war. Another programme of the coalition „is pro-migration; they are the ones implementing the Soros-plan”, he said, adding that American financier George Soros had said in 2015 that one million migrants should be brought into Europe every year, and that he would be happy to bankroll the project. Orbán warned that Europe’s population was being replaced, with the number of white Christian Europeans dwindling as the number of Muslims was growing radically.
Regarding competitiveness, including issues such as boosting industry, creating more jobs, higher wages and better living standards, the European left-wing coalition „is on the side of tax rises, so it isn’t market-friendly, which isn’t good for the European economy”, he said. The coalition created „is pro-war, pro-migration and anti-economy”, he said. Orbán said that rather than representing traditional, moderate, conservative and Christian democracy, the EPP was moving leftwards, hence a left-wing majority had formed in Europe.
Orbán said the EPP had won the votes of moderate, right-wing voters in elections over the years but had gone on to form coalitions on the left, and so it was „pushing away” right-wing voters and „stealing” votes on the left, which he called „dishonorable”. Even though the balance of public opinion had shifted to the right, this was not currently reflected in the power dynamics in Brussels, he said, adding however that „indirect measures” such as forming alliances and agreements on the right would make it „ever stronger”. Orbán said the last few elections had presented a challenge to right-leaning Europeans, as many were reluctant to vote for the „robust and strengthening” right wing formed by Italian, French and Hungarian parties, among others. More moderate Christian Democratic voters tended to vote for the EPP, he said. The EP elections were conducted in nation states, he said, and had brought about a weakening of almost all non-right-wing governments, he added, pointing to the French and Belgian results as examples. The shift to the right „has happened” but did not lead to a change in power because the EPP „always takes its voters towards left, leading to a left-wing rather than a right-wing majority in Europe”, he said.