Orbán sees “good chances” in European elections – 2024-03-25 11:44:35

Conservatives among themselves

Written by Rainer Ackermann

“The ideal of an open society might not take root in Central Europe.” Viktor Orbán expressed this opinion on Wednesday evening at an awards ceremony in Brussels.

The Prime Minister awarded the Hunyadi Prize, newly donated by the Fidesz party foundation, PMA, to Polish MEP Prof. Ryszard Antoni Legutko from the opposition PiS. In his laudatory speech, Orbán spoke of “good chances” for the national-conservative, sovereigntist and Christian forces in Europe to set the tone in the EU following the June elections. In the directional dispute with the liberals, “neither the Soros empire nor the Brussels bureaucrats, but the nations will win.” The ideal of an open society has failed, “we will send them where they belong, to the rubbish heap of history, just as we once chased the communists away,” said Orbán, confident of victory.

Hunyadi Prize winner Prof. Ryszard Antoni Legutko warned that the left was leading the Central European region into slavery.

When “liberals” threaten freedom

When examining the functioning of the EU institutions, Prof. Legutko discovered early on critical signs of striving for political autocracy. The so-called progressive liberals are hostile to all those who think differently, he stated boldly and way ahead of his time back in the 1990s. In an effort to realize their utopian delusions, these liberals behave like communists once did, thereby threatening freedom.

Anti-Christian reflexes

Legutko spoke out in favor of protecting European values, saying democracy and freedom were under enormous pressure in the EU. Anti-Christian reflexes were one of the essential building blocks of public consciousness in the community today. The “European project” means delegating political power from the member states to the EU institutions. The supporters of integration deny the European cultural heritage and suppress dissenting opinions. The left has transformed the EU into the monopoly of a large political corporation. “For the countries in our region, this is the path to slavery,” said the philosophy professor.

The Hunyadi Prize, founded in 2023, is awarded by the Fidesz Foundation to personalities who are committed to the freedom and independence of European nations and who see Christian culture as a link between the peoples of the old continent.