At the same time, inflation remains and state debt is high, while unemployment, public assets and public order have become worse, he added. The commemorative events mark the 25th anniversary of the Pan- European Picnic in Sopronpuszta.

Here, several hundred East Germans escaped to Austria on August 19, 1989 with the silent consent of Hungarian authorities under the auspices of the picnic organised by opposition groups during the last year of Communist rule. In the second half of the eighties it was a given idea that the “ragged East” should take over the western model, but by now it is clear that western Europe’s economy is extremely vulnerable, too, Orbán said.

“Today we must think about what is good for Hungarians here and now, and not where things are done better (...),” he said. Orbán said that because of cultural differences Hungary cannot borrow from Chinese, Russian, Japanese or South Korean models, but it cannot join a western European track either which is clearly losing its reserves, and perhaps it has already depleted them.

Source www.hungarymatters.hu

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