Hun­gary and Poland to set up a joint insti­tute for com­par­a­tive law

The for­eign min­is­ter said that the “patri­ot­ic” poli­cies of the two cab­i­nets, which he said were

“based on Chris­t­ian val­ues and pri­ori­tise nation­al inter­ests”, were often unac­cept­able to “the inter­na­tion­al lib­er­al main­stream… con­tin­u­al­ly attack­ing the two countries”

The for­eign min­is­ter has announced that Hun­gary and Poland will set up a joint insti­tute for com­par­a­tive law to help joint efforts against the “sup­pres­sion of opin­ions by lib­er­al ideology”.

After meet­ing Pol­ish coun­ter­part Zbig­niew Rau, Péter Szi­jjártó, Min­is­ter of For­eign Affairs and Trade, said that the “patri­ot­ic” poli­cies of the two cab­i­nets, which he said were “based on Chris­t­ian val­ues and pri­ori­tise nation­al inter­ests”, were often unac­cept­able to “the inter­na­tion­al lib­er­al main­stream… con­tin­u­al­ly attack­ing the two coun­tries”. The new insti­tute will “accu­mu­late the nec­es­sary legal cer­tain­ty, basis and knowl­edge against the sup­pres­sion of opin­ions by lib­er­al ide­ol­o­gy”, he added. Poland is not only a friend but also a broth­er-in-arms of Hun­gary and its clos­est ally in Europe, the min­is­ter said.

Hungary’s abil­i­ty to enforce the inter­ests of its for­eign pol­i­cy depends great­ly on the strength of the Viseg­rad Group as well as the strength of the Hun­gar­i­an-Pol­ish alliance, he said, adding that strength­en­ing those rela­tion­ships was there­fore always a key part of the country’s for­eign pol­i­cy. The V4 com­pris­ing the Czech Repub­lic, Hun­gary, Poland and Slo­va­kia is today the clos­est and most effec­tive alliance with­in the Euro­pean Union, Min­is­ter Szi­jjártó said.

Hun­gary and Poland reject the Euro­pean Commission’s new migra­tion pact, the min­is­ter said, argu­ing that it was a “pro-migra­tion” doc­u­ment that would encour­age more and more would-be migrants to set off for Europe and still con­tained a “rebrand­ed” migrant quota.

“That’s still a red line,” Min­is­ter Szi­jjártó said. 

“It’s com­plete­ly unac­cept­able for us.”

He added that the V4 would con­tin­ue to pur­sue the poli­cies that had so far been suc­cess­ful in stop­ping immigration.

Pho­to cred­it: Mandiner

Source: abouthun​gary​.hu