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by Soeren Kern
• October 9, 2016 at 5:00 am
- The Czech
Republic, Poland and Slovakia, all former Communist countries, also
oppose the EU plan to relocate 160,000 "asylum seekers,"
which they say is an "EU diktat" that infringes on
national sovereignty.
- "One of
the principals underpinning the system is the primacy of EU
law." — Margaritis Schinas, chief spokesperson for European
Commission.
- "In the
early autumn of 2015 we erected a fence on the external green border
of the European Union and the Schengen Area. This was to protect the
European Union's greatest achievement: free movement within the
common area of the internal market.... We do not want to distribute
the migration burdens falling on Europe, but we want to eliminate
them: to put an end to them." — Hungarian President Viktor
Orbán, July 11, 2016.
- "We do not
like the consequences of having a large number of Muslim communities
that we see in other countries... That is a historical experience
for us." — Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, September 3, 2015.
- "We lose
our European values and identity the way frogs are cooked in
slowly-heating water. Quite simply, slowly there will be more and
more Muslims, and we will no longer recognize Europe." —
Hungarian President Viktor Orbán, September 30, 2016.
Migrants protest at Budapest Keleti railway station,
September 4, 2015. (Image source: Mstyslav Chernov/Wikimedia Commons)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has proposed amending the
Constitution to prevent the European Union from settling migrants in
Hungary without the approval of Parliament.
In a speech on October 4, Orbán said the amendment would be
presented to Parliament on October 10, and, if approved, it would come
into effect on November 8.
Hungarian voters overwhelmingly rejected the European Union's
mandatory migrant relocation plan in a referendum on October 2, but
failed to turn out in sufficient numbers to make the referendum legally
binding.
More than 97% of those who voted in the referendum answered 'no' to
the question: "Do you want the European Union to be entitled to
prescribe the mandatory settlement of non-Hungarian citizens in Hungary
without the consent of the National Assembly?"
Voter turnout was only 40%, however, far short of the 50%
participation required to make the referendum valid under Hungarian law.
by Giulio Meotti
• October 9, 2016 at 4:00 am
- Russia is one
of the few countries in the Western world in which religion is
becoming increasingly important and not less.
- To establish his
authority on the Russian society, President Vladimir Putin has
shaped a doctrine mobilizing the entire Russian society against a
perceived Western "decadence". He has declared that
Russian traditional family values are a bulwark against the West's
"so-called tolerance -- genderless and infertile."
- The first Cold
War was a clash between Western democracy and the Soviet
dictatorship of the proletariat. The new Cold War is a one between
Western liberalism and Russian conservatism.
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Patriarch
Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church, May 24, 2015. (Image source: The
Kremlin)
During the Cold War, American conservatives used to label the Soviet
Union "the godless nation" on the verge of collapse because it
had purged religion from the Russian society. Two decades later, the
Kremlin is occupied by a former officer of the KGB, secretly baptized,
who launches the same accusation of atheism at the United States and the
West.
Welcome to "Putin's covert war on Western decadence", as The
Spectator defined it:
"Putin's Russia is fast becoming a very puritan place. Ever
since returning to the presidency in 2012, Putin has pursued an
increasingly religious-conservative ideology both at home and abroad,
defining Russia as a moral fortress against sexual licence and decadence,
porn and gay rights".
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