“We are continuously under significant attack”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s Minister of State for Communication Tamás Menczer said on Hungarian M1 television’s Friday evening current affairs program in reaction to the request from the Venice Commission.

The Venice Commission called on Hungary to withdraw certain provisions of the “Stop Soros” legislative package because in its view they severely hinder the activities of legally operating non-governmental organisations.

Mr. Menczer pointed out that prior to the adoption of the “Stop Soros” package and the 7th amendment to the Constitution the Venice Commission had already declared that it does not want Hungary’s Parliament to adopt these regulations. He noted that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had also “declared war on Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian Government simply for wanting to protect the security of the Hungarian people”. The High Commissioner also strongly criticised the Stop Soros package, the Minister of State recalled. “In addition, we are also well aware of Brussels’ pro-immigration politics”, he added, explaining that this all means that “George Soros’s unified front in support of immigration has been established”.

In addition, Mr. Menczer said it was surprising that a few days ago the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini stated that immigration is “vital for Europe”. The Hungarian Government believes exactly the opposite: stopping immigration is vitally important. With relation to this, the Minister of State pointed out that an EU representative should speak for EU unity and not declare things with which several member states do not agree.

Mr. Menczer pointed out that the list of countries that are fighting against immigration includes the Visegrád Group (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia), as well as Austria and now also Italy.

This is why Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó has called for the agenda of the first foreign ministers’ meeting of the Austrian EU presidency to include a debate on “what Brussels really wants”, adding that Brussels may view migration as vitally important to Europe, but there are conflicts that are difficult or rather impossible to resolve.

(MTI)