The Hungarian prime minister said the EU Commission’s call for people to prepare a 72-hour emergency kit was scary. “What’s on these people’s minds? Are they up to something?” the politician lamented, speaking on public radio.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was the first national leader to react to the EU Commission’s advice for people to prepare a 72-hour survival kit for emergency situations.
The EU wants every member state to develop a 72-hour survival kit for citizens to face any new crisis that might emerge as part of its Preparedness Union Strategy which also calls for more stockpiling of essential supplies and for improved civilian-military cooperation.
Viktor Orbán denounced those plans in his weekly address on national radio.
“Let’s try to understand why they are doing this. I see that Brussels is preparing for war. So this must be taken seriously,” he said.
Orbán said he does not think that Europe is threatened by war from outside, and the fighting in Ukraine would not reach Budapest, Warsaw or the Baltic states, as no one would attack a NATO country.
“Now this seems funny, that Brussels then sends a message to all European families to keep enough food with them for 72 hours, but if you look behind it, you are rather horrified to see what is on these people’s minds. Are they preparing for something?” he asked.
The prime minister added that if someone is making war preparations, that means they are preparing for war actions.
Brussels wants to continue the current war by supporting Ukraine, according to Orbán and the the emergency kits proposal is preparation for a deeper involvement in the war, he said. Orbán recalled that Hungary did not deliver any weapons to Ukraine and will not send any troops in the future.
The strategy unveiled on Wednesday by the European Commission includes a list of 30 concrete actions it says EU member states need to take to boost their preparedness against potential future crises ranging from natural disasters and industrial accidents to attacks by malicious actors in the cyber or military domains.
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