Viktor Orban 2020 State of the Nation

Viktor Orban 2020 State of the Nation
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PM Orbán in State of the Nation address:
The last decade has been the most successful in Hungary’s last 100 years

Viktor Orban Proclaims ‘Hungary First’ in State-of-the-Nation Speech

Ironically, it was a government of former communists that made Hungary go bust with their liberal politics. “The liberal is nothing other than a communist with a diploma,” the PM noted.

Building a nation’s stature, said Prime Minister Orbán, begins with “the strengthening of self-respect.” While Hungarians have grown distant from the idea that “we can look at ourselves as a successful people,” it is time that we say it out loud: “The last ten years have been the most successful in the last 100 years of Hungarian history.”

Delivering his 22nd State of the Nation address this afternoon, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talked about Hungarians’ need to finally think of themselves as a successful nation, the country’s recent economic growth, the 100-year anniversary of the Treaty of Trianon, family and climate policy, and the upcoming two years of “building up the country.”

Here are some highlights from the prime minister’s speech:

“It’s fortunate that I did not have to deliver a State of the Nation speech 100 years ago because this year the Trianon peace treaty will be 100 years old,” PM Orbán said at the outset of his remarks. While the “judgment was clearly a death sentence,” he added, “history has not recorded a nation that has survived such a loss of blood.” Asking how we have been capable of enduring these 100 years, the PM said that the answer is a short sentence, one that has helped us over the last ten years as well: “I believe in one homeland.”

According to Prime Minister Orbán, every success begins with the strengthening of self-respect. While in 2010 Hungary was at a crossroads, now, ten years later, we can safely say that “we did it”: We brought about a national constitution, sent the IMF packing and repaid its loans early, created 850,000 jobs, tackled freeloading, put our finances in order and recognized families appropriately.

Orbán said his government had “sent the IMF home”, managed to pay back the loans early, created 850,000 jobs, put the country’s finances in order and launched schemes to help “a reunification of the nation”, and reconnected Hungarian communities beyond the borders with Hungary.

“The last ten years have been the most successful in the last 100 years of Hungarian history,” PM Orbán said, citing an average 2.8 percent annual GDP growth rate since 2010 (and an average of 3.4 percent since 2013), tax reductions and a record-high foreign investment influx last year that foresees investments valued at 1.7 trillion forints. “The debate has been going on for ten years as to how they should evaluate our economic and social model,” PM Orbán said, adding that “one cannot even say in the liberal, Brussels euroblabla language what is happening in Hungary.”

Ironically, it was a government of former communists that made Hungary go bust with their liberal politics. “The liberal is nothing other than a communist with a diploma,” the PM noted.

Speaking about George Soros’s three attempts to plunder Hungary over the course of the last 30 years, Prime Minister Orbán said that the first time was in the early 1990s when Soros wanted to buy up all of Hungary’s state debt. “Gratitude and recognition to József Antall, who prevented that,” PM Orbán said.

Soros tried to rob Hungary yet again in 1994 when he tried to acquire the National Savings Bank, or OTP, which would have meant that essentially every Hungarian’s money would have been in one hand – but thanks and recognition go to Gyula Horn, who did not allow this.

“In 2015,” Orbán continued, “human trafficking groups disguised as human rights organizations allowed waves of migrants into Europe.” They were, of course, financed by George Soros.

Touching upon climate policy, a topic that has recently become “fashionable,” PM Orbán said that if we are “really concerned for the Earth, then it’s time we replace words with action.” Hungary, for example, will eradicate illegal dumping of waste beginning in July, prohibit the use of single-use plastics and protect our rivers from plastics flowing in from other countries. Also, PM Orbán announced that “with every new birth, we will plant ten trees.”

On the outcome of Hungary’s family protection action plan, PM Orbán said that according to Google Analytics, loans for families expecting babies (“babaváró hitel” in Hungarian) became the tenth most popular search term in Hungary. More than 100,000 have taken advantage of the loan. Meanwhile, the subsidized purchase of large, seven-seater family cars is up, ten new preschool places are created every working day and personal income tax exemptions for mothers with four children have already eased the burden on 40,000 families.

“The number of marriages is at a peak; the number of divorces has never been so low,” the prime minister stated, adding that the number of abortions is falling, too.

In conclusion, Prime Minister Orbán looked to the future saying that the next two years will be about “continuing to build up the country.” The achievements belong to the nation, he said, while the responsibility must be assumed by the government. “If the nation achieves, then the glory goes to the nation. If the nation achieves poorly, then we governed poorly.”

“Hungary before everything. The good Lord above everything. Go Hungary! Go Hungarians!” Prime Minister Orbán said in closing.

Hungary's Viktor Orban vows to plant 10 trees for every new child.

The success story of every emerging nation begins with the reinforcement of their self-esteem, while the citizens of every troubled country can only regain their personal self-esteem with the return of their own nation’s self-esteem, Viktor Orbán said in his traditional state-of-the-nation address. Orbán said that in 2010 the objective of his government taking office had been “to prove to ourselves and to the world that we are still somebody”. “We figured that we would either find a path or create one for ourselves,” he said, adding that the only option left for his government had been the latter since “the path set by Brussels and Washington was unacceptable for us.” Orbán said that looking back after ten years he could say “with due modesty” that “we figured out what to do and we did it”. Orbán said his government had “sent the IMF home”, managed to pay back the loans early, created 850,000 jobs, put the country’s finances in order and launched schemes to help “a reunification of the nation”, and reconnected Hungarian communities beyond the borders with Hungary. He said that in economic reports released in Brussels this week “the whole of Europe may read that in 2019 the Hungarian economy registered the highest growth rate on the whole continent”.


Orbán said Hungary was now finding common ground with neighbouring Slovakia, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia, and was in a position to engage in broad cooperation and form alliances with them. “History has again given central European peoples a chance to build a new alliance based on their own national interests, allowing us to defend ourselves against threats from both the east and the west,” Orbán said.

One hundred years after the “death sentence” that was the WWI Trianon Peace Treaty, “we’re alive and Hungary is still here”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his traditional state-of-the-nation address on Sunday. “Not only are we alive but we have also freed ourselves from the clutches of a hostile ring of countries,” the prime minister told a crowd at Budapest’s Várkert Bazár.


“Over the past ten years we also learned that Europe is not in Brussels,” the prime minister said. “Europe is us and we don’t have to please the tired Brussels elites. In the past we used to think that Europe was our future but today we know that we are the future of Europe.” Orbán said the Carpathian Basin today was a source of strength that stemmed from the recognition that “being Hungarian is promising and uplifting”. “Our nation knows that Hungary comes first,” he said.

“The facts show that the last ten years were the most successful ten years in Hungary’s last 100 years,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his state-of-the-nation address on Sunday.

Detailing Hungary’s achievements over the past ten years, Orbán said that in no other decade over the past century had the country been both externally and internally balanced while maintaining sustainable growth. Hungary achieved all this while keeping wealth inequality at a moderate level according to European standards, he said, adding that this meant that Hungary’s broader society had benefited from the country’s growth. Vulnerable social groups like young people, people aged older than 50, mothers and low-skilled workers have all been able to find jobs, he said. Wages are on the rise and the minimum wage for both skilled and unskilled workers has been doubled. Investments in Hungary and exports both hit record highs last year, Orbán said, noting that Hungary ranks 94th in the world in population size and 34th in terms of the size of its export volume. Orbán said those who were critical of Hungarian teachers, the education sector and vocational training should hold back on their criticism, arguing that workers, experts and engineers “who run the world’s most modern factories here in Hungary all graduated from our schools and universities”.

Read more at: https://dailynewshungary.com/orban-hungarys-last-ten-years-most-successful-decade-of-past-century/
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