“The Hungarian government’s stunt was inspired by Verhofstadt himself. Last month, the MEP used a billboard mounted on a truck to criticise Orban, saying: ‘First he took our money, now he wants to destroy Europe.'”
But to the grim authoritarian Verhofstadt, turnabout is not fair play.
“Hungary accuses Brussels of censorship after ‘police action against controversial billboard,'” by Rita Palfi and Alice Tidey, EuroNews, December 7, 2018:
Hungary’s government accused the Belgian capital of trying to censor it on Thursday after a van it commisioned to drive through Brussels with a billboard linking migration to terrorist attacks was stopped by police.
Zoltan Kovacs, Hungarian secretary of state for international Communications and relations, made the accusation in a video posted on Facebook. He said the truck had been stopped by police on December 5 and that the driver had been arrested.
Kovacs said the intervention was unacceptable, arguing that nothing illegal had been done and that the Hungarian government had the right to express its opinion.
Police in Brussels confirmed to Euronews that they had intervened and that an official report had been drawn up against the driver but did not disclose on what grounds.
The mobile billboard featured pictures of two terror attacks on European soil, which took place in 2016 — at Brussels’ Zaventem airport and in the French coastal city of Nice.
It also displayed a picture of MEP Guy Verhofstadt, leader of the liberal ALDE group in Parliament and a fervent critic of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
It said: “Hundreds have died in terrorist attacks since 2015 but Guy Verhfstadt says: “We don’t have a migration crisis”. This is insane!” suggesting there is a link between immigration and terror attacks.
The Hungarian government’s stunt was inspired by Verhofstadt himself. Last month, the MEP used a billboard mounted on a truck to criticise Orban, saying: “First he took our money, now he wants to destroy Europe.”…
A Hungarian government spokesperson told Euronews: “The Government recently commissioned a van displaying a billboard which warns of the consequences of pro-immigration policies. This was stopped by police in the streets of Brussels and the driver was told to remove the image of Guy Verhofstadt. The case shows that there is greater vitality in Central and Eastern European democracy than in its Western European variant.”
Keith says
Well you can’t exactly expect the EU and Western European governments to admit that there is any link between high muslim immigration and terror attacks in Europe because if they did that they would be admitting that they had made Europe and the citizens of Europe unsafe through their own immigration stance.
The fact that many European citizens can now see the problem and many more are starting to realise all the time is a problem for all European Governments and the European Union.
The only answer they have got is to tighten up the hate speech laws and import more Islamists just to rub the noses of their own people in the problems those governments have created.
John says
Islam is the cause of terror attacks . No wonder fart right groups are emerging . Killers come from Islam no one else does this sort of heinous crime. Or blows them self up.
John says
Far
John says
Far rights groups
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
The text on this Hungarian-government-hired billboard truck driving around a French- and Dutch-speaking city is in English. Why? “Last month, the MEP [Guy Verhofstadt] used a billboard mounted on a truck to criticise Orban.” What language was his billboard printed in? Hungarian?
Keys says
Maybe printed in Arabic so more people in the city could understand it and vote accordingly. (sarcastic smirk).
Indiana Tom says
Truth in advertising.
Michael Copeland says
Verhofstadt in European Parliament:
“….there is such a problem in this crisis because member states are reluctant to transfer new sovereignty and powers to the European Union, and we all know that the ONLY way out of this crisis is a new transfer of powers to the European Union….”
That is the “Europe” that Verhofstadt means when he complains that Orban “wants to destroy Europe.”
video: “The week BREXIT all went to sh*t”: youtube at 1.16
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FYI says
Verhofstadt …always looks like he’s just escaped from an asylum and for some reason reminds me of Frankenstein{maybe its the inane grin,the moronic mumblings,the weird haircut,the absolutely disgraceful dentition..}
Verhofstadt: Surely an inmate of the Coudenhove-Kalergi multicult asylum..
And he’s on the loose!
Phil Copson says
“….reminds me of Frankenstein{maybe its the inane grin,the moronic mumblings,the weird haircut,the absolutely disgraceful dentition..}…”
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Mmm – to be picky here – you mean “Frankenstein’s monster” not Frankenstein himself.
Similarly, Merkel is plainly demented, but it is her runaway “Merkel’s Monster” in the form of mass Third World migration that will destroy Europe.
On a lighter note – returning to the endlessly-fascinating subject of Verhofstadt’s teeth – maybe from now on, he should be known as “Franken-stain’s Monster” ?
Michael Copeland says
What law is it that the truck driver has broken?
We need to know.
Kilauea says
The message on the side of the van wasn’t approved by the Ministry of Truth.
James Pierce says
He was guilty of wrongthink. That’s the worst crime imaginable these days
gravenimage says
Yes–how was this illegal in Belgium?
dunroamin says
Don’t know about Belgium but in the UK they would call it hate speech and everyone knows that is a heinous crime, even worse than racism.
Michael Copeland says
See the photograph of Verhofstadt in front of his anti-Orban poster:
https://www.hln.be/nieuws/buitenland/hongarije-lanceert-lastercampagne-tegen-guy-verhofstadt~a1d5022f/?referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.co.uk%2F
Orban looks satisfied. Verhofstadt seems to be growling.
James Pierce says
It’s amazing how all the thinking in Europe these days that makes even an ounce of sense is coming from the places that used to be behind the iron curtain. Imagine the reactions you would have gotten if, 30 years ago, you suggested that that would be the case.
Michael Copeland says
Citizens of Brussels, download the picture, print it and display it in your car window, or anywhere else it can go. Spread the word.
A_M_Swallow says
If this is not settled quickly Hungary will have to do some drastic like expelling the Belgium Ambassador and possibly some representative of the EU.
Lydia Church says
Verhofstadt is the one who wanted to take our money and then destroy Europe… by letting the migrants in!
The taxes go to support them and then they do terrorism and Europe is destroyed.
That is exactly what Orban is against! Like…. DUH!
Like what does Verhofstadt think? He can just say the opposite of the truth and everyone will believe it blindly?!
The folly knows no bounds… !
By the way….
Hurray for the yellow vest protests that are spreading… they have had their fill of betrayal from their traitorous government leaders!
SB says
Bomb Mecca!
Ren says
Brussels is a dhimmi territory.
Greg Murphy says
Why is it in english?
gravenimage says
Many–perhaps most–Belgians speak English.
English has become something of a “Lingua Franca” in many places.
Phil Copson says
“….English has become something of a “Lingua Franca” in many places…..”
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“Has become” you say, GI – “Has become” ??? – t’was ever thus, surely ? You can’t have failed to have noticed that whenever Dr Who/Captain Kirk etc lands/materialises/teleports etc into another dimension/solar system/pan-dimensional alternative universe etc, the inhabitants invariably converse in English?
The English language be our gift to this world – (and it definitely came in handy for singing “Land of Hope and Glory” and “Rule Britannia” in Whitehall yesterday afternoon, in the hopes that those b*st*rds round the corner in Downing Street could hear us….) – but I do think that it’s high time that the rest of the cosmos started paying us some licence-fees….. In fact, never mind all this jihad nonsense – if those small green furry creatures on Alpha Centauri don’t cough-up some hard-cash soon for using my language without permission, I may be popping round there with my sonic screw-driver and they’ll find that the polarity of their fluid-link has mysteriously been reversed – that’ll show ’em……
Phil Copson says
typo alert – should read “may be our gift”….
gravenimage says
Hungarian govt runs van in Brussels with billboard opposing mass Muslim migration, cops stop it and arrest driver
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Is freedom of speech being completely crushed in Belgium?
ronyvo says
Hungary is leading the revolution against Islam. Victor Orban (Trump of Hungary) is a strong leader because THE PEOPLE are supporting him. The Hungarians are smart people and they determine to stop the invasion at their doors regardless of any opposition. God (not alla) bless them.
Michael Copeland says
The Hungarian people’s message:
We have not got them.
We do not need them.
We do not want them.
We shall not have them.
sidney penny says
Speaking English in Brussels?
Billboard in English