Posted on 04/16/2024 7:29:47 PM PDT by marshmallow
BUDAPEST (Sputnik) - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday accused Brussels of violating freedom of speech after local authorities prevented a conference of right-wing European politicians from taking place in Belgium's capital.
Earlier on Tuesday, the mayor of Brussels' Saint-Josse-ten-Noode municipality, Emir Kir ordered the shutdown of the National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) "to guarantee public security." Orban was scheduled to participate.
"The Belgian police decided to shut down the [National Conservatism] conference in #Brussels, just two hours after it started. I guess they couldn't take free speech any longer. The last time they wanted to silence me with the police was when the Communists set them on me in [1988]. We didn’t give up then and we will not give up this time either! #NoMigration #NoGender #NoWar," Orban said on X.
Later in the day, the political director of Orban’s office, Balazs Orban, called for changes in Europe, pointing to the lack of freedoms in the region. "Brussels is not the capital of freedom anymore, but a tool for left-wing, progressive, liberal oppression, therefore changes are necessary. The elections to the European Parliament on June 9 can lead to such a shift. The national conservative forces are united by being fed up by Brussels' superstate, fed up with a failure policy of the Brussels leadership, which causes a collapse of Europe," Balazs Orban wrote on social media.
UK politician Nigel Farage, the founder of the Brexit Party, who was also attending NatCon, accused Brussels' Kir of being anti-democratic and "anti-free speech."
"What just happened in Brussels this afternoon was a disgrace. For the Mayor and police to shut down a peaceful political event makes me more convinced of Brexit than ever," Farage wrote on X.
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“...ordered the shutdown of the National Conservatism Conference ...”to guarantee public security...”
What would Hitler have done?? Answer: order the shutdown of the National Conservatism Conference to guarantee public security.
Donald Trump can invite the entire group to come to his place, instead, and continue taking, there!
They are called conservatives.
“Right-wing” is a pejorative term.
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