Small Demo Held In Budapest Against PM’s Immigration Remarks
- 20 Jan 2015 3:00 AM
Around 150 demonstrators gathered in central Budapest on Monday to protest against recent remarks about economic migrants made by Hungary’s prime minister. One activist, Margit Barna of the Solidarity for Migrants group, spoke up for a Hungary “where immigrants can also feel good, not just Orbán’s people”.
Speakers at the demonstration referred to remarks made by Viktor Orbán, who said that economic migration was a “bad thing” in the European Union.
They condemned Orbán’s “antiforeigner statements” and called on him to apologise.
Philosopher Miklós Tamás Gáspár told the gathering that conquering Magyars and escapees following the 1956 revolution were “immigrants, weren’t they?”
“Aren’t the half a million Hungarians searching for prosperity in western Europe really economic migrants?” he asked.
Source www.hungarymatters.hu
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