01.02.2024, Budapest.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attended the farmers’ protest in downtown Brussels, the politician’s press service reported on February 1.
Orban arrived in Brussels to talk to farmers staging protests across Europe. The agrarians demand that Brussels protect their interests and not throw them into the crisis over Ukraine’s European integration. The Hungarian prime minister supported these theses and said that the EU needs a new elite that would hear “the voice of the people.”
Orban emphasized that so far the countries that suffer the most from Ukraine’s European integration are those close to it: Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland. Due to imports of Ukrainian food, prices for domestic agricultural products are falling, and farmers are in a difficult economic situation.
“But sooner or later this danger, this loss will reach the interior of Europe, and it will be felt here in Brussels, in France, and in Spain. The European Commission should represent the interests of European farmers against Ukrainians, not the other way around,” Orban said.
The current leaders in Brussels do not want to listen to the voices on the streets and pursue anti-social and irrational migration, gender policy, inclusion of Ukraine in the EU. Farmers have also been “overboard”: now the EU supports Ukraine’s agricultural and industrial complex much more strongly, and more subsidies are allocated to the country. This means that other countries – members of the EU – receive less money for the development of agriculture. In Orban’s opinion, Brussels creates conditions for unfair competition.
“As a solution to the problem, Viktor Orban suggested that there should be a complete change of leadership in Brussels, because “these leaders will never make decisions favorable to farmers,” the press service of the Prime Minister stated.
Elections to the European Parliament will be held in June 2024.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
