“National democrats” oppose the makers of empires, who are in turn “opponents of democracy”, Viktor Orbán told a conference marking Hungarian Independence Day. Europe as a “cultural formation”, he said, was “fabulous” and “inimitable”. But the European Union, Orbán said, was a political body created by countries defending their economic and military interests after the second world war when the US and Soviet Union vied with each other on the continent. “The EU was created to ensure that Europeans once again decided Europe’s fate,” he said. Today, however, Europe was not actively improving or transforming itself, Orbán said. “It is we who must improve and transform it, and lead it back to its former successful path.” “Today we’re the same as we’ve always been: Europe’s last freedom fighters. The history of Europe did not simply change; we changed it.” Orbán insisted that Europe was in need of “freedom fighters of our own kind”.
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