According to the parliamentary and strategic state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, Fidesz won the People’s Party battle, and a good compromise was reached which helps the European People’s Party (EPP).

Balázs Orbán said on the Friday programme of the public service television news channel M1 that the EPP’s “pro-immigration branch” and left-wing parties supported by George Soros were unable to have Fidesz expelled, and as a result the People’s Party managed to preserve its unity.

They finally accepted Fidesz’s proposal, based on which an investigative committee will be set up, and the Hungarian government party will abstain from exercising its membership rights in the People’s Party on a voluntary basis, he added.

“As far as I see, from a Hungarian point of view party membership in the European Parliament is never a goal in itself, regardless of which party’s membership it is, but a means through which the government parties and the government are able to represent Hungary’s interests in the European Parliament,” he said.

Consequently, the outcome of the debate depends on the arrangement that best suits Hungary in terms of the representation of its interests in the long run, and for finding allies with a view to the causes of protecting European Christian values and stopping migration, he added.

Regarding the migration conference to start on Friday in the Castle Garden Bazaar, the state secretary highlighted on Kossuth Radio’s programme ‘Good morning, Hungary’ that Hungary has not yet hosted an event on such a scale, and it is a rare occurrence even by European standards.

Hungarian migration policy has some “intellectual force of gravity”, meaning that it is a reference point. For those who are concerned about illegal migration, who would like to focus on the protection of the borders and the survival of nation states – be those politicians or experts – Hungary has become a good reference point; they have been invited to this conference, he added.

(Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister/MTI)