Hungary’s Sovereignty Renaissance: The Europe That Refused to Fall

The American Spectator ^ | November 13, 2025, 10:04 PM | Kevin Cohen

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Hungary’s closed borders have proven to be the right course.

On Nov. 7, 2025, as Europe once again hid behind euphemisms about migration, Donald Trump sat opposite Viktor Orbán and delivered a truth now too indecent for Brussels: “Hungary keeps crime down because it keeps its borders closed.” A simple line, painfully obvious, and therefore unutterable in polite European society. Yet it captured Europe’s new reality: the only EU state still behaving like a state is Hungary. (RELATED: Europe’s Urban Decline Exposed)

Hungary’s resistance is not a policy dispute. It is a renaissance — not artistic, but civilizational. A reawakening of the basic instinct that borders matter, identity is inherited, and sovereignty is not a lifestyle accessory. This is Europe before the abstractions, before the bureaucratic hypnosis, before the continent talked itself into believing that asylum is unlimited and culture negotiable. (RELATED: The Business of Borders: The Economy of Virtue)

The data — the kind European officials prefer buried — exposes the depth of Hungary’s divergence. In 2024, Hungary registered 29 asylum applications, according to the European Commission’s own reporting. Germany processed over 237,000. Across the EU, asylum claims exceeded one million, roughly 2,200 per million inhabitants. (RELATED: Asylum to Austerity: Germany Leads Europe’s Retreat From Open-Ended Migration)

Hungary’s rate per million inhabitants? Functionally zero.

Not by luck. By design.

Hungary’s asylum system now operates outside its borders. A person seeking protection must file a “declaration of intent” at a Hungarian embassy, typically Belgrade or Kyiv, and await approval. Almost no one is approved, according to the AIDA 2024 country report.

Inside Hungary, asylum is not an option. At the southern border, a fortified barrier — steel, razor wire, heat sensors, and armed patrols — forms a perimeter Western European countries abandoned years ago. Under Hungary’s still-active “state of...”

[SkyDancer]

And being of Hungarian heritage myself .....

[ConservativeMind]

Hungary's asylum system now operates outside its borders. A person seeking protection must file a “declaration of intent” at a Hungarian embassy, typically Belgrade or Kyiv, and await approval. Almost no one is approved, according to the AIDA 2024 country report.

This is exactly how the US used to do it.

A UN agreement even states you have to go to a country immediately bordering your country, which would basically be Canada or Mexico citizens, only, requesting asylum.

[FLT-bird]

Es ezert, otven ev a jovore Magyarorszag meg Magyar lesz. Hala Istennek!

And because of this, 50 years in the future Hungary will still be Hungarian. THANK GOD!

[Red6]

I want asylum in:

Monaco
Lichentsein
Luxembourg
I might even be willing to settle with: Switzerland

No nation with a per capital income of less than $100,000 need apply.

My special skills: I have been a Muezzin and everyone should have the privilege to hear the morning call to prayer. I am good at rewiring garage door openers and cellphones.

Also, I have a wife (one which I will admit to), and 9 children, 4 of which are named Mohamed.