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30 I Central Europe bne September 2020
Hungarian PM says that Western Europe has given up on Christian roots, unlike CEE countries.
Hungary's illiberal leader says the West has lost its appeal
Tamas Szilagyi in Budapest
Central European nations should unite to preserve their Christian roots as Western Europe experiments with same-sex families, immigration and atheism, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on August 20.
As in other speeches delivered during national holidays, Orban blasted the EU and its leaders for not being up to the task of reinventing the continent’s politics and economy, and for its pro- migration and anti-Christian policies.
Orban said Western Europe had given up on the vitality that lay behind the greatness and success it enjoyed for
the past thousand years, the "spiritual depth of life", the happiness afforded by
marriage and having offspring and the "spiritual energy of national cultures".
In other words, Western Europe has given up on Christian Europe. Instead, it’s experimenting with a godless cosmos, with rainbow families, with migration, and with open societies, he noted.
The domestic political connotation of his speech is that recently a radical
rightist politician removed the rainbow pride flag from the Budapest City Hall. A couple of days earlier a football fan did the same thing with the flag flying in the local district of Hungary's
most popular football team. The perpetrators were fined but big name pro-government media workers offered to help them out. The US embassy in
a statement condemned the attacks on the rainbow flags.
“Western Europe has given up on Christian Europe. Instead, it’s experimenting with a godless cosmos, with rainbow families, with migration, and with open societies”