Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is facing backlash after a speech arguing that Europeans should not “become peoples of mixed race,” although the far-right leader is still slated to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas.
Orban’s views on immigration and multicultural societies were no secret: He said in 2015 that Muslims threaten Europe’s Christian identity, and in 2017 his government erected a border fenceBut his latest provocation appeared to have hit a nerve in a way it rarely did even at the height of the 2015 immigration influx into Europe.
A Hungarian government spokesman denied those accusations, accusing “the mainstream media elite” of “hyperventilating about a couple of tough lines about immigration and assimilation.” Orban’s remarks as “stupid and dangerous” and called on other E.U. leaders to “make it clear to the world that [a leader like] Mr. Orban has no future in Europe.”for a fourth consecutive term in April. But his government is increasingly isolated within the E.U., the bloc of 27 member states of which his country is a member.
“How long till we cut his funding and power?” Guy Verhofstadt, an influential Belgian member of the European Parliament, said in response to Orban’s speech.The foreign minister of Romania, home to a large Hungarian minority, also condemned Orban’s remarks, and European Commission Vice President— without naming the Hungarian leader — that “racism is a poisonous political invention.”
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