{"id":3493,"date":"2016-12-03T07:24:41","date_gmt":"2016-12-03T07:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/?p=3493"},"modified":"2025-06-04T07:27:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T06:27:06","slug":"according-to-viktor-orban-central-europe-has-never-had-as-big-influence-on-european-matters-as-it-has-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/2016\/12\/03\/according-to-viktor-orban-central-europe-has-never-had-as-big-influence-on-european-matters-as-it-has-today\/","title":{"rendered":"According to Viktor Orb\u00e1n, Central Europe has never had as big influence on European matters as it has today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hungary \u2013 The era of political correctness is about to end\u00a0in the United States but there is still much to do in Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n said at the meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Referring to his recent\u00a0phone conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump, Orb\u00e1n said\u00a0\u201cwe can finally return the age of free discourse, when one should not be afraid anymore of being excluded for\u00a0conservative thoughts\u201d, he said. \u201cWhen we talked about human existence, we were labelled medieval and clerical; when we talked about family, we were labelled sexist and homophobic\u201d. While previously we were forced to engage in a \u201cdiscourse of\u00a0human rights\u201d, in the future we can finally focus on\u00a0humans, not rights. \u201cWe are now returning from liberal non-democracy to freedom\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1100 years ago our ancestors chose this \u201cdraughty\u201d place, which has always been at the crossroads of history, the Prime Minister told the Hungarian Diaspora Council. There were only very few shocks in European history that did not ravage Hungary, therefore our instinct about potential sources of danger is not exaggeration, he insisted. In the last two decades the numbers of dangers decreased a lot due to the EU and NATO accessions. \u201cHowever, we did not join these alliances alone but as a part of Central Europe, Orb\u00e1n said. Central Europe has never had as big influence on European matters as it has today. At least not since the age of King Matthias\u201d, he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Brexit and US presidential election have opened a new era, which brings a new world order as well, according to the Hungarian Premier. In the coming centuries four of the five major economic centers of the globe\u00a0will be located in the Pacific area, which will probably lead to\u00a0the\u00a0fall of the Atlantic domination. It has\u00a0serious consequences for Europe\u2019s future, Orb\u00e1n argued. However, Hungary\u2019s economy will continue to perform very well in the coming years and\u00a0together with our Visegrad partners, we have a good chance for becoming the growth engine of the European economy, Orb\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n<p>Article from\u00a0Hungary Today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary \u2013 The era of political correctness is about to end\u00a0in the United States but there is still much to do in Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n said at the meeting of the Hungarian Diaspora Council on Wednesday.\u00a0 Referring to his recent\u00a0phone conversation with US President-elect Donald Trump, Orb\u00e1n said\u00a0\u201cwe can finally return the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3494,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}