The Patriots have a plan for how they want to grow.
The European Union must change its current war strategy and switch to a peace strategy instead. Ceasefire, peace negotiations - announced Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Brussels on Thursday when he arrived at the meeting of the Patriots for Europe party group before the EU summit.
Viktor Orbán, enumerating the topics of the EU summit starting later in the day, declared: "we will have a very difficult day, there are three battles" on the agenda.
Among them, he first mentioned the war in Ukraine. He said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will present his victory plan. Although "we don't know him officially yet, we heard what he said yesterday in the Ukrainian parliament. It is more than terrifying," he said.
He emphasized: sometimes he alone urges the European Union to change its current war strategy, because "we are losing this war right now". The European Union entered this war with a poorly planned, poorly executed, poorly calculated strategy, for which the president of the EU committee is primarily responsible, because she was the flag bearer, he declared.
This does not work - the Prime Minister stated, and then drew attention to the fact that "it is completely obvious that we are losing" on the front line.
"So we have to change. I wasn't thinking about more wars, more dangerous weapons, and long-range weapons, but that we should switch to a strategy of peace instead of a war strategy. Cease fire, peace negotiations," he said.
What the Ukrainian president said in the Ukrainian parliament on Wednesday points in the exact opposite direction - said Viktor Orbán, and then announced that he therefore urges German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron to start negotiating with the Russians on behalf of the entire European Union as soon as possible in order to "find a way out of this situation".
He emphasized: the "migration battle" will also be significant, because "many of us want to change the migration rules." The fact that Hungary is being punished for protecting the borders of the union is unacceptable, he stated. More and more countries are saying that there is a migration crisis and that changes must be made, he pointed out.
The prime minister announced that at the EU summit, during the "afternoon battle", the EU wants to adopt the economic measures that would "bring Hungarian families to the ground". A tax increase, the abolition of utility reduction, the transformation of the pension system, the abolition of the 13th monthly pension - he listed.
I have to reject this and protect the most important elements of the current economic policy that protect families, he said.
According to his information, the meeting of the Patriots on Thursday morning, although it takes place in the context of preparations for the EU summit, focuses on the organization of the party family.
We went through the baptism of fire, which was the presentation of the Hungarian EU presidency program in the European Parliament, he said. It turned out that the faction of the Patriots works excellently - the Prime Minister pointed out, and then highlighted: "we stood up for each other, they helped me defend Hungary".
The Patriots have a plan on how they want to grow, this is what Thursday's meeting is about, Viktor Orbán added.
MTI
Cover photo: In the photo published by the Prime Minister's Press Office, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (front, b), Bálint Ódor, Head of the Permanent Mission of Hungary to the European Union (k) and Bertalan Havasi, the Prime Minister's Press Officer (j) arrive at the EU summit in Brussels on October 17, 2024. -I.
Source: MTI/Prime Minister's Press Office/Zoltán Fischer
