Hungarian PM Orban Victor apparently spoke pretty strongly about the EU yesterday… here are three reports.
Here are excerpts published in the Financial Times as provided by the Budapest government:
The political and intellectual program of 1848 was this: we will not be a colony! The program and the desire of Hungarians in 2012 goes like this: we will not be a colony!
Hungary could not have stood against the pressure and things dictated from abroad in the winter of 2011-2012 if it were not for those hundreds of thousands of people who stood up to show everyone that Hungarians will not live as foreigners dictate it, will not give up their independence or their freedom, therefore they will not give up their constitution either, which they finally managed to draft after twenty years. Thank you all!
Don’t be misled if tomorrow you will read in the international press that there were only a few hundred people here in the square and even those who were here, rallied against the government.
As things stand, we have not been as strong as we are today for long decades.
As things stand today we are enough in numbers and in our resolve to fight for a free Hungarian life also, after fighting for our liberties.
Freedom for us means that we are not inferior to anyone else. It means that we also deserve respect.
Freedom also means that we[sic] decide about the laws governing our own life, we decide what is important and what isn’t. From the Hungarian perspective, with a Hungarian mindset, following the rhythm of our Hungarian hearts.
Therefore we write our own constitutions. We do not need writing-lines, nor do we require the unsolicited assistance of foreigners wanting to guide our hands.
We are more than familiar with the character of unsolicited comradely assistance, even if it comes wearing a finely tailored suit and not a uniform with shoulder patches. We want Hungary to revolve around its own axis, therefore we are going to protect the constitution, which is the security for our future.
We have to ask and to respond to the biggest question. Will we submit ourselves to being at the mercy of others until death or will we rely on the virtues which make Hungarians Hungarians, which make sovereignty sovereignty and history history. Will we opt for the fate of a colony or for a Hungarian existence made up and made complete according to the best of our knowledge?
There is one thing that no one can question. Our freedom fights always meant a step forward for the world. They meant progress because we were right. We were right even if everyone denied this.
In ’48 we said that we should tear down the walls of feudalism and we were proven right. In ’56, we said we have to crack, we have to break the wheels of communism and we were proven right.
Today also, they look at us with suspicion. They looked at us like this in ’48-’49, when Europe became silent, silent again, but then the feudalist world disintegrated all around Europe and strong nations were born in its place.
They looked at us like this in ’56, but the communist tyranny, that we drove the first nail into, finally collapsed, allowing Europe to reunite again.
European bureaucrats look at us with distrust today because we said: we need new ways. We said we have to break out of the prison of debt and we also declared that Europe can only be made great again with the help of strong nations. You will see my dear friends that we will be proven right yet again.
It was not the feudalist vassals who caused the demise of feudalism, nor was communism destroyed by party secretaries. The rule of speculators will not be terminated by them or by bureaucrats, nor will they come help save the ditched carriage of Europe.
It is not going to be them, but instead it is going to be European citizens living off the fruits of their personal efforts. Because their world has to come. If it doesn’t[sic], then the days of Europe are over.
The Youth of March also saw, what many in Europe today refuse to see, that financial independence is a precondition for freedom. This is why they had to include the indispensable demand for a National Bank on their 12-point list.
Although the Youth of March were not board members or bankers, they fully understood the weight of the issue of a national bank. They knew that an independent national bank is not one that is independent from its nation. An independent national bank is one, which protects the national economy from foreign interests. They knew and we also know well that anyone with common sense will not entrust the neighbours with the keys to the pantry.
Our Lithuanian, Czech, Latvian, Slovenian and Romanian friends have all stood up for us. Not only did they stand up for us, they also came, our Lithuanian and Polish friends are here to celebrate with us.
Glory to Lithuania! God bless Poland!
We also have with us the silently abiding Europe of many tens of millions, who still insist on national sovereignty and still believe in the Christian virtues of courage, honour, fidelity and mercy, which one day made our continent great.
There are people, there are many people who still remember 56 and think that “you Hungarians were right”. We are capable of standing our ground against the injustice of stronger empires. This is why we are respected by those who respect us. This is why we are attacked by those who are against us.
We understand that Europe has a lot of problems. The clog wheels are creaking, muscles and tendons are flexing.
But as a thousand year old European nation we have one demand. We demand equal standards for Hungarians. As a European nation we demand equal treatment. We will not be second class European citizens. Our rightful demand is to have the same standards apply to us, which apply to other countries. We have learnt that the recovery of Europe and Hungary are inseparable from each other. Any time Europe found itself in distress, the fate of Hungary also took a turn for the worse.
We are not happy, but we understand that European unity is not a unity of saints, but we will not sit and watch idly, if any political or intellectual trend tries to force an unholy alliance on Europe.
Europe cannot surrender and give in; the feeling of belonging together may not weaken it any more. This would lead to the defeat and to the demise of Europe. This is why Europe cannot leave whole countries by the roadside.
If we don’t act in time, in the end, the whole of Europe can become a colony of the modern financial system.
The website European Voice reported there were hundreds of thousands present to hear the Fidez leader.
kingdom travelin' 
Oh yeah… People were taken there by Fidesz paid coaches organized by the county Fidesz administration – from tax payers’ money indeed as political parties are largely sponsored from the state budget by law in Hungary. And please note: there are hundreds of thousands in Hungary who do not agree better to say completely disagree with PM Orbán and the ruling coalition and who know: since 1989 Hungary has not been a colony.
thanks for weighing in Gabor!