Eugen Tomac (Romanian MEP): The government to officially tell Viktor Orban that he is no longer welcome in Romania [translation in comments]

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  1. > Viktor Orban’s speech in Băile Tușnad is purely Nazi style, says MEP Eugen Tomac, president of the PMP. He calls on the government in Bucharest to officially tell the Hungarian Prime Minister that he is no longer welcome in Romania unless he is invited.

    > Viktor Orban once again scandalised European chancelleries and a large part of public opinion after speaking at the weekend at the summer school in Băile Tușnad about the purity of the Hungarian race and attacked the European Union for its support for Ukraine in the war with Russia.

    > Eugen Tomac criticises the Hungarian Prime Minister’s rhetoric: “Viktor Orban’s speech gave me chills (…). I didn’t think I could hear in our century a speech that Hitler used. This is unacceptable. It is unacceptable that a politician, no matter what position he holds, can afford to come to Romania and speak in such terms.”

    > The PMP leader says that “the Romanian authorities, the Prime Minister, have an obligation to explain to Orban that he is no longer welcome on Romanian territory, unless he is invited, because this exercise in the name of solidarity with the Hungarian community produces situations in which our country is ultimately put in. You can’t come to Romania at any time and send messages that I’m simply convinced that as they become known around the world, they will produce reactions”.

    > Asked how the Prime Minister of a friendly neighbouring country can be banned from entering Romania, Eugen Tomac replied, “We are facing an extremely dangerous precedent and here we have an obligation to be extremely firm, and the Romanian authorities can tell Viktor Orban, following this absolutely reprehensible and unacceptable incident, that he is no longer welcome unless the Romanian authorities give their consent, because Romania cannot be turned into a showroom of bad taste where Orban appears whenever he feels like it, to say all sorts of enormities. So from this point of view, following this slip-up, I see no problem in officially informing Viktor Orban that his presence on Romanian territory in the name of this constant concern for the Hungarian minority is no longer welcome (…). This was a purely Nazi-style expression and this must be condemned and sanctioned”.

  2. *Blut und boden* …but somehow even dumber.

    I mean, aren’t ethnic Hungarians a syncretic population from the Carpathians and Eurasian steppe — where Magyars, Turks, Slavs and Germans formed a discrete ethnicity based upon the consolidation of groups?

    Seems kind of hard to double-down on ethnic purity, when by your own racist reckoning, you’re a “mongrel society.”

  4. I don’t understand Orban’s endgame. At least PiS has a fixation on finding friends in Europe and even goes out of their way to avoid conflicts (like with the Polish language in Lithuania or Bandera in Ukraine.) Meanwhile Orban is just isolating everyone from Hungary, including Poland.

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