EU leaders have gone against own people on migrant issue: Hungarian PM

The European Union's leaders have gone against their own people on the migrant issue and have to revisit their policies, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on national public radio Kossuth on Friday.

Orban was referring to what he says is the EU leadership's policy of accepting asylum seekers despite protests from residents.

Orban also called on Europe's leaders to rethink their foreign policy. He noted that in recent years Europe had intervened in three countries -- Iraq, Syria, and Libya -- and all three have collapsed, resulting in chaos and millions of refugees.

He called this "democracy export" madness, pointing out that the attempt to introduce European cultural concepts and methods to improve the civilizations and culture of peoples who think differently had been a failure.

"The chaos of the Middle East and its painful consequences have proven that democracy cannot be exported, either with weapons or peacefully," Orban said.

All people must be allowed to build their own politico-economic systems in keeping with their own cultures, he added.

As far as Libya was concerned, he said, Europe had two alternatives. One was to fully support the Libyan government and allow it to arm itself. The other was to receive an international mandate for European armed forces to land in Libya and set up huge refugee camps there to hold the people trying to cross into Europe as well as those who have already crossed into Europe illegally. Enditem