Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban has told the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that his country has no wish to become a multicultural society. The comments emerged on the heels of a visit by German chancellor Angela Merkel in which she chastised the Hungarian PM’s rejection of the European model of liberal democracy. Orban, whos openly admires Vladimir Putin, refused to back down, saying the Hungarian model need not follow that of other countries. He said Hungary had no problem if Germany and France chose to go down the multicultural path, but that his country’s wishes should also be respected. Hungarian police report that 10,000 people crossed over its borders in January alone, many of them coming from Kosovo.
