GB News interview
⚠️ In today’s European environment, the deepest civilizational fault line is not economic, but one of security and culture. Migration, demographic decline, and war-related tensions are not isolated phenomena; they are mutually reinforcing processes that are reshaping the continent’s strategic position.
🇭🇺 Hungary confronted this reality as early as 2015, when it became clear that liberal legal frameworks were effectively rewarding illegal border crossings, while instability and rapid population growth in Sub-Saharan Africa were setting millions on the path toward Europe. ➡️ This is why we overhauled our entire border protection and asylum system to defend Hungary and the EU’s external borders — a decision for which Brussels is now fining our country one million euros per day.
‼️ In Western Europe, there is still a widespread belief that the consequences of these challenges can be managed without addressing their root causes. The migration crisis is still approached through the lens of spending millions of euros on integration, demographic decline is masked by large-scale labor inflows, and war is explained away with idealistic slogans. Our own history, however, has taught us that reality cannot be replaced by rhetoric. For this reason, Hungary is simultaneously building a work-based society, pursuing a firm family policy, and conducting a sovereignty-based foreign policy — grounded in faith, national interest, and responsibility.
🇪🇺 At a time when geopolitical uncertainty is once again intensifying across Europe, we continue to stand on the side of peace. In the case of the Russia–Ukraine war, we fully support peace initiatives aimed at ending the conflict, because we clearly see the devastation that results when ideology replaces strategic thinking in decision-making.
🗣🇬🇧 I discussed these issues on the sidelines of the MCC Brussels conference “The Fight for the Soul of Europe” with Miriam Cates, former British Member of Parliament and current reporter for GB News, the United Kingdom’s most-watched news channel. The stakes of today’s European debates are nothing less than whether we can preserve the identity of our communities and avoid the traps of escalation. We are convinced that national interest and realism are the only reliable compass in today’s world.
