Outrage as Orban bashes Europe for 'mixing with non-Europeans'

Hungary's prime minister caused outrage Saturday after he bashed western European countries for "mixing" European and non-European populations in a keynote speech. 

Viktor Orban claimed "the west is split in two", arguing that countries where European and non-European people intermingle "are no longer nations". 

The ultra-nationalist conservative leader idealised an "unmixed Hungarian race", during his annual address at the Tusvanyos Summer University in Romania.

“We [Hungarians] are not a mixed race … and we do not want to become a mixed race,” he said, which prompted a huge public outcry. 

Ethnic Hungarians are a mix of Finno-Ugric Magyars and various assimilated Turkic, Slavic, and Germanic peoples, according to Encyclopedia Britannica.

Katalin Cseh, an MEP from Hungary's opposition Momentum party, criticised Orban's speech.

 “His statements recall a time I think we would all like to forget," she said. "They really show the true colours of the regime,” she said. 

Orban alleged that the West, Brussels, and the "troops" of long-time Fidesz enemy George Soros were trying to "force migrants" on Central Europe. 

The Romanian MEP Alin Mituța also responded angrily to Orban’s comments.

 “Speaking about race or ethnic ‘purity’, especially in such a mixed region such as central and eastern Europe, is purely delusional and dangerous. And so is Mr Orban,” he wrote on Twitter.

The Fidesz leader predicted the coming decade will be defined by uncertainty and war on the final day of the event in Romania, where he typically sets out his party's views and direction for the years ahead.

This year the Oxford-educated politician chose to further his controversial views on immigration, gender and geopolitics in front of thousands of spectators.

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