Balázs Orbán argues that liberal-controlled media fabricated a fascist narrative to obscure Hungary's sovereignty, a deception exposed by Donald Trump's rise. He highlights the irony of Budapest's political landscape and asserts that 80-90% of Hungarians support strict migration policies as civilizational necessities. Orbán condemns the EU for imposing one million euros daily in sanctions while pushing for war, describing Brussels as a globalist machinery targeting nation-states. Ultimately, he frames Hungary's resistance not as isolationism but as a vital defense against economic stagnation and the preservation of national independence against international pressure. [Automatically generated summary]
Okay, Balazsha Orban, political director for Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
Every time I've interviewed you, I have to point out you are not related unless something has happened in the last...
Still not married in the family yet.
You know, it's funny.
When I see you now, we've been doing this for a couple of years.
It seems like it's like seeing an old friend.
We've both put on beards over the years.
You've gone a little more rustic than me.
We chatted a bit last night, and one of the things that you mentioned that I think we're going to talk about on stage in a few minutes, and then again later tonight at the Danube Institute, Is how the country of Hungary is so misportrayed by the mainstream media.
And as you know, that's something that I really focus on from an American perspective.
And you guys played a montage, or CPAC played a montage at the beginning, just with some of the ways that Orban, Viktor Orban, and country are perceived.
And it's rather extraordinary, even though it's kind of old hat for us because we've been through this game.
I think, you know, when I think how the situation was looking like 10, 15 years ago, I remember that it was very hard to explain for us Hungarians who we are and what we are doing, because we have a very special language.
Only 12 million people on earth are speaking this kind of language, and you don't know the cultural and the linguistic.
Context, you have no idea what's going on in the country.
So it's very hard to explain to the foreigners what's going on.
And the mainstream media, which was back at the time also controlled by the liberals, they started a political campaign against us.
And they were portraying Hungary like fascist dictatorship type of country.
And no one else...
So no one was speaking against it.
And that was the liberal propaganda against Hungary everywhere.
But then with Donald Trump, the situation changed.
Because I think American people and many Western European people realized when the liberal media started to spread lies on Trump.
They realize that, oh, they are lying on this issue.
And then they realize that if they're lying about Trump, it's possible that they are lying about Viktor Orban in Hungary as well.
And they are lying about many things.
And people started to be curious about what's going on.
And this is why we are very happy to have so many Americans who are here and they have The media compilation they showed beforehand, I mean, the things they were saying about Hungary and about your prime minister, it's exactly the same stuff.
Interestingly, you mentioned at an event last night that we were at the Roger Scruton Cafe, which there are several out here, a great conservative thinker who unfortunately is no longer with us.
But you mentioned there that right next door was a communist and Marxist cafe in this place that we are told is authoritarian and has been...
Quite literally, next door, the Marxists have their own cafe.
But we try to convince them that it's the best decision to support the government.
But if you are not able to convince everyone, we still can convince the people that even if you dislike the government, there are some important civilizational issues which are not, which is not about party politics.
It's about...
So, the migration issue is a perfect example.
Now, I would say 80-90% of the society bags the Hungarian government on the migration policy.
They don't like us, but they support our migration policy.
And I think it's very important for every country to have, you know, like cultural, And it has nothing to do with party politics.
You can love, you can hate politicians, and you can do whatever you want.
You can say whatever you want.
But there are some basic things like leave alone our children, protect the borders, preserve the sovereignty, not to bring a country into a war and things like this.
That because you guys have done this right, as it pertains to the border, you're obviously at Oz, you're in Union, your economy basically is doing well, especially to the backdrop of what's happening in a lot of other Western European nations.
That, at some level, the electorate kind of doesn't realize that things could be significantly worse.
This is why it's very important for us to have the foreigners who are here in Hungary and they are explaining to the Hungarian public as well that, guys, this is unfortunately not the case in every country.
So politicians are persecuted.
People are persecuted based on their comments, their tweets, their political opinions.
The migrants are on the street and it can happen.
In Germany, there was no politician or in France who was saying, Back in the time, 20, 30 years ago, that guys, what's going on 30 years forward will change our country.
So we should rather stop it now.
No one was saying it in those big countries.
And people, I think, would love someone who is telling them the truth.
So since this is one of three events that we'll be doing together, I'll save the rest of the questions for later.
Let me ask you one other thing for now, which is, so when people look at a small country that has its borders under control, that has competent governance, what is the biggest external threat?
The things that you just mentioned, what is the biggest thing that you could be sanctioned by the European Union or that they can hamper your ability to trade?
And you know what is going on, what happened with the war in the last three years.
Prime Minister Orban was saying that there is no solution on the battlefield.
The sooner we get back to the diplomatic track, it will be better for everyone.
But the European leaders were pushing, pushing, pushing to another direction.
And it caused a massive destruction and the negative consequences.
That coincides on the field of energy, on the field of inflation, on the field of general stagnation, what you experience in Europe, are affecting the Hungarian people.
So the biggest challenge for us now is, as it was mentioned by the Prime Minister, how to deliberate Brussels.
How to regain the control?
Because now it's controlled by a globalist machinery and they are using everything what they have against the nation states and the national governments.
It's not democratic at all.
It's the opposite of democracy, what is going on there.
So if we want to preserve Hungarian sovereignty, then we have to...