The Vatican Secretary of State and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed diverging views on immigration at the Bled Strategic Forum this week ahead of the pope’s trip to Budapest. Cardinal Pietro Parolin and Orbán sat on the same stage in Slovenia on Sept. 1 to speak at a panel that included prime ministers from Greece, Slovakia, Croatia, and the Czech Republic, responding to questions about the European Union and migration. “I think that we are well aware of the difficult issue of migration,” the Vatican’s top diplomat said at the panel. “It’s not an easy task, but I think that we share the view that migration is a common problem … and should be tackled together. No nation and no state, no government, should be left alone to face this problem, but it has to be a common policy of the European Union,” he said. Parolin’s call for a common EU policy on migration contrasted sharply with Orbán’s comments on the same panel. Orbán said that the only way to prevent the dispute on migration from destroying the unity of the EU was “to give all the rights back to the nation states in relation to migration.”
Cardinal Parolin and Viktor Orban talk migration ahead of papal trip to Hungary – Catholic World Report
Cardinal Parolin and Viktor Orban talk migration ahead of papal trip to Hungary – Catholic World Report
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