“Africa wants to kick down our door, and Brussels is not defending us,” Orbán told the crowds gathered outside the Hungarian parliament building in drizzling rain. “Europe is under invasion already, and they are watching with their hands in the air.”Orbán devoted all of his 25-minute speech to the issue of migration and offered no political programme or vision for the country except for shutting out migrants. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty ImagesMarchers waved Hungarian flags and placards supporting Fidesz, Orbán’s party. Many were bussed in from towns across Hungary, and several thousand conservative Poles travelled to Budapest to back the Hungarian leader. Orbán attacked Soros using language that critics have said contains antisemitic undertones: “We are fighting an enemy that is different from us.

Source: The Guardian March 15, 2018 17:58 UTC