(26 Feb 2019) The Hungarian government on Tuesday stepped up its campaign against the leadership of the European Union, repeating its accusations that the EU seeks to promote mass immigration into the continent.
Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said citizens would receive a letter from Prime Minister Viktor Orban explaining what he casts as the EU's pro-immigration efforts.
In the letter, Orban said he wants to inform Hungarians "about the worrying developments of the immigration crisis."
Included with Orban's one-page note is a sheet with seven alleged EU policies he claims encourage migration, such as weakening member states' rights to border protection; giving more funds to "political activist groups" which support migration; cutting financial assistance for countries opposing migration; and giving migrants prepaid bank cards.
"We want to defend our security and our Christian culture," Orban said, while "to attain their objective, the Brussels bureaucrats want to break the resistance of countries opposed to immigration."
EU leaders and European politicians, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, have rejected Hungary's campaign, launched last week with billboards and television and print ads.
The campaign is also getting some domestic pushback.
Opposition party Momentum has launched a "reality campaign" of placing stickers on some government posters to substitute the accusations against the EU with slogans highlighting problems at home.
They include: "Every sixth Hungarian child is born abroad" - a reference to the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians who have emigrated in recent years - or "There are no family doctors in over 400 districts" and "Over 4,000 teachers are missing from schools."
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