Taking up masses of non-registered immigrants from the Middle East into also means importing terrorism, criminalism anti-Semitism and homophobia - Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Bild in an interview, a day after a the cabinet called a referendum for rejecting compulsory settlement quotas.
”We cannot decide disregarding the people in case of decisions that strongly change their life and also determinate upcoming generations. Also, the quota is reframing the ethnic, cultural and religious profile of Hungary and Europe. I have not decided this way against Europe, but for protecting European democracy”, he said.
When asked if Germany's effort was to be blamed for the refugee disaster in Europe, Orban said a definite no adding that the wave of migrants was caused by the chaos in the Middle East, in Syria and Iraq. The German Chancellor has merely reacted to that and has welcomed migrants, he said. .
"We do not have to imitate everything the Germans are doing, he noted, but there is an alternative for German migration policy – but I can see no alternative for Chancellor Merkel."
When asked if Hugnary would comply with EU decision to on the distribution of some 160,000 migrants across the continent he said, the decision is not legal, it contradicts EU law and it is nonsensense "We, like the Slovaks, are filing a suit against it”, he said.
The plan to take up hundreds of thousands of migrants from Turkey into Europe and to distribute them is an illusion, Mr. Orbán said. No EU country can, nor wants to implement this plan. Symbolically speaking, here in Budapest people would lynch me if I agreed to that.
Mr. Orbán was confident there would be no sanctions implemented against Hugnary for going against the EU rules on quotas. "That is nothing but an attempt of scaremongering. The next EU budget will be decided in 2020. Than, in several years, sanctions would require the votes of all member states. That will not happen", he stressed.
