Orban is against a common European asylum policy

In the debate on EU refugees, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban opposed a common European policy. "The immigration policy is not a common task of the EU, it is a national matter of every Member State, and since 2015 we tried to make this task a task common – and it failed, "Orban told Bild.

"The Hungarians have decided: they do not want immigration, women and children of our border obviously receive help, but we do not accept immigrants for economic reasons ", said Orban. When he represented the asylum policy of the German Chancellor in Hungary, "then people would kick me out of the office the same day," says Orban.

It was not his job to evaluate the work of the German Chancellor, but Merkel was not responsible for the question of who could live in Hungary. "I would not allow myself to decide who lives in Germany and who does not, and we say it politely." He also expressed this point of view at the last EU summit in June in Merkel, but nevertheless expressed his willingness to negotiate at the Chancellor's request.

"My rule is this: if the German Chancellor wants to negotiate, then Hungary says yes, or even better: yes." Orban stressed the importance of the 2019 parliamentary elections. "Above all, the Germans should be vigilant." There is a French concept that provides for French leadership of the EU paid for by German money, said the Prime Minister of the beneficiary country of Eastern Europe.

"I reject that, we do not want a European Union led by France, and we do not want to live on the money of others." Important decisions within the EU should not be taken before the elections to the European Parliament, Orban said.

The Prime Minister was in favor of serious consideration of the concerns of Eastern countries vis-à-vis Russia: "For some countries of the EU, Putin is a real geopolitical threat , countries like Poland or the Baltic countries and the EU, that must be given to them, so for years I have been campaigning for a common European army, "said Orban. Hungary or Western Europe, he does not see this danger.He responded to the criticism of his campaign against the Soros Foundation that the accusation of anti-Semitism was "a German contemplation: I see in Soros an old Hungarian speculator, representing casino capitalism, who spends his money to promote immigration. "

Anti-Semitism has been" pushed back into Central Europe "in the past. West, however, anti-Semitism, which manifests itself in action, becomes of stronger and stronger in a way related to immigration, and we watch this with concern, "says Orban.