Hungary on EU dispute: We'll be "unrelenting" | DW English
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- No refugees, new regulations and more sovereignty? How long will Viktor Orban’s government keep playing the bad boy in Brussels? Tim Sebastian meets Zoltan Kovacs, international government spokesman and secretary of state for public diplomacy,
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Hungary please keep on defending Europe and others will follow suit!
Your prediction was correct. Italy is following suite.
We support you Hungary. USA
Hear, hear!
EU hack
No body is falling for this anymore.
Has anyone here been following John Mark & Kurt Dolittle ???
I admire Zoltan Kovacs's intelligence and level-headedness in such a hostile interview.
he is very level headed and cool, this is why he was chosen as PM spokesman, kudos to this guy, we need more level headed, and honest leaders like him
EFBensonFan well done Hungary the e u should not dictate to the people of Hungary they have made such a mess of Europe and Hungary should do what is best for their country
Tim is great --its his job to put the guy on the spot and the fact he didn't come close, makes Zoltan look that much better. I thought Peter the FM was impressive, but so is this guy.
Certainly Well put, EFBensonFan!
Yes, he is brilliant!
Wow, Zoltan Kovacs is an intelligent and self controlled man. God bless Hungary!
Hungary remember NO SURRENDER , the EU is finished , stand fast, UK is with you.
@Ophelia Wow, look at the bots roll out...
Yes, it is amazing that Kovacs did not take out a stick and beat this 'reporter'...
Hungarian officials should not even waste time to talk to them
Maximum effort to at least spread the truth.
I think helping these liberal cryturds to hand them more rope to hang themselves with is always worth the effort
No, there should always be open discourse. That is part of what Hungary is fighting for.
This is unbelievable, how angry is that reporter is, how amateur that reporter is, it feels like he has been paid for this, really unbelievable.
The fact is the old fart thought he is all that......and Mr. Kovacs proved it otherwise!
It's not a reporter, it's a prostitute.
No different than the press in the USA
Hungary remember NO SURRENDER , the EU is finished , stand fast, UK is with you.
@@alanaadams7440 //:: JIM ACOSTA comes to mind!! Hey HUNGARY!!! KHGA!!! (Keep HUNGARY Great ALWAYS!!! F**K MERKLE and the rest of the globalists!!!
i wish the interviewer would shut his trap for a second and let us listen to the spokesman.
Hungary is right. Hungary didn't create the refugee crisis, and is not obliged to adhere to Merkel's unilateral decisions.
De Chalon u talked as if Dr Merkel was wrong in lifting the valve and take in those refugees all around that were building up in eastern European fronts..She saved the onslaught of refugees that poorer country like Hungary was unable to handle...
Jentul Jay why you give the old lard arse a get out of jail card her handling in 2015 crisis was woeful.
The US foreign policy largely lobbied by you know who, is responsible for the immigration crisis.
by islamic jihadist barrack obama.
@@talijah007 She did wrong!!
One needs to get past Tim Sebastian's combative style to try and understand what the interviewee is trying to say. Hungarian is right to defend its sovereignty, population, culture and religion.
Brisbaneman and they should leave the EU. They do not like the new rules so good bye. Plain and simple.
Roberto Ramirez All will leave EU step by step. EU does not represent anymore Europeans!
This communist STATE will fall and Europeans will be finally FREE!
Dont be silly. HU it self said they will not leave EU, no matter what. They will just do as they please just like all other states. And thats the beauty of EU, we cant enforce anything on other states, we can only influence them.
This immigration stuff is just a trend, people are fighting back, it will pass, we will learn from it and do better next time.
Better try to improve and fix EU than disband, because read history. Its only war previously, we never had such a long peace period in EU 2000 years old history.
Dude, are you SJW or smth? People are acting dumb all the time, I called you dumb, cos the stuff you write there was pretty dumb, i just called you out on that.
You most likely do 10 dumb things or more in a day, that's called being human, why the hurt feelings?
plain and simple,... Bolshevism is no longer in practice. Scientist like to disagree over facts of nature... think about it..
Keep fighting Hungary, don't give in and don't give up!
Mary Stacey; I consent to Mr Orban,s plan of democracy,it makes economic sense...
Mary Stacy ..Hungary has said NO !!! LIve with it.
don't worry, they will never give up. 2/3 of Hungarian territory lost because they unable to behavior like a civilized county. And now, they want more fight with their neighbors. As i know, a lots of slavic nations thinks huns should deport back to innner asia, and there some truth in it....
@@alternativemovietitle370 Slavs love to take territories with already built infrastucture and economy, but can't keep it that way.
Nobody should fight Hungary.
God Bless you Hungary and Poland!
And italy, czech, austria and slovakia!
@@markuskalmi2745 Austria not so much....maybe to some degree but not so much.
@Morpheus that's a shame. What The V4 meant to these people?! What? then....
@@michaelmorgan6576 i agree but those 2 countries have pretty similar views in this context. Happy to see a fellow conservative with right wing believes i assume?
which god?
Why on earth is this poor Hungarian man putting up with this aggressive and abusive interviewer! He must have a tolerence level off the scale.
Sharon Blairs it is amazing
Bravo a man with cojones being harassed by a liberal goosestepping toady, a nauseating spineless pseudointellectual fool. Anybody else reminded of the Neville Chamberlain school of wimpiness?;
Elizabeth Houser you warm my heart!
@@tonyromano6220 LOL well this disgusting display from Sebastian warmed me all over hot blazing anger
In Hungary there is a type of candy called "I don't care tablet(actually the original name is a slang for not caring) ". It's a joke but I think he took quiet few of them.
This guy Tim Sebastian is one terrible host!
Mr. Kovac made toast of the hostile host.
Ralf S - indeed he is
The host a trickster. He also behaves as a traitor ...the type of person who would rather pretend there is no issue when a lady is being assaulted nearby. Makes you wonder if he ever contemplates on whether that lady could be one from his family, neighborhood or a circle of friends. Kjoln, Rotherham, Stockholm - to him the stories appear irrelevant to the subject matter.
Kovac is cool - very intelligent and confident.
If Tim Sebastian was BBC trained, then that explains everything.
@@Lennythewinner Exactly, completely typical bbc belly crawling paid shill
Im liking Hungary.
I'm loving Hungary!!
F the E U 100% , BREXIT is the only answer . I wish l could wrap that e u flag around the neck of the fake critic .
thx i live there
An European man telling another European man he will be fined for not accepting non-Europeans. Is that European solidarity?
That's where it's going. As Nigel Farage said last week to Orban "Thank God you're here!"
Leftist elitarian agenda.. Self-hating priks busy destroying worlds oldest democracies.
If only they headed for Saudi Arabia or Turkey living their self destructive multiculti dream.
Hungary is fed up of being swamped. They are defending themselves. Let us all defend ourselves. No to Global Monopolism the only game in town!
Hungary remember NO SURRENDER , the EU is finished , stand fast, UK is with you.
Isochest Absolutely God bless them and protect them in the name of Jesus!✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
@@SALZOPYRIN Eu has to reform, or it will fail. and corona well be the test. i am for eu if it well reform so it's only trade and basic rights.
HUNGARY and POLAND are RIGHT.
These migrants were throwing their own babies over the fence and the Hungarians were horrified. Tim Sebastian failed to mention this.
Can you back up this statement with some evidence? \ rs
Dw, your fall has already begun. The people will not conform to your corporate bought and paid for watering down of culture. The people have a voice. Do not forget about us Americans either. We do not fear you.
@@dwnews Since when did you political correct LinksGrüne airheads start caring for the truth or even facts??
They only positiv is commenting isn't disabled..
Am sure DW will soon disable the comment section of this video.
@haiku2222 The lying DW News did not expect you to show this hahahaha. What a shambles for them. They must be so angry because nobody believes the lies they tell hahahahahhahhhhaha. Very good to see.
That journalists is a clear joke and a pawn......
Yes, and he is a smartass old fart.
what journalist he s nothing else than a tool of bulshit
Peter Stark absolutely😡
97% of them are jokes, given a script to follow
What a terrible interviewer. He is so disrespectful!
EU hack
A communist
The Hungarian held his own (in his second language no less) against a prepared ambush set by this activist in his first language. The "interviewer" had clear malevolence in his eyes and spoke aggressively and spitefully the entire time. I feel like anyone who is actually unbiased and uninformed about European politics would immediately notice the clear and hostile bias by the media here. It is undeniable. This is not how a genuinely curious media outlet conducts an interview of a government official.
@@SonoftheAllfather Tim Sebastion does't come to ask question you like.
Yes, he acts like he is scolding a naughty child.
our governments can learn from Hungary, people of our countries first.
Charity starts at home
- The Bible
Good for you Hungry!!!! Don’t let them bully you.
HUNGARY is the only country in the EU with balls!!!! Well done!!!!
@Robert Szuflada too many people forget about V4
ODP Bothma Poland
ODP Bothma what about Poland, Italia etc . at least they have the balls to vote for the protection of their culture.
@Toodie You are right! I´m from Brazil and I helped elect Jair Bolsonaro as our first right-wing President in the history. Viktor Orban called him to congratulate on his victory.
russia
Hungary signed up for the values that was - not the values as they have become!!! They are right to pushback against Germany's Merkel!!!
before Germany wanted blue eyes and blonde hair.....now, black hair and black skin.
This Hungarian spokesman has handled very well the difficult questions that the EU agenda journalist put him up to.
And he took no BS from him.
Can i slap the interviewer? You gotta admire the interviewee
Yes
Absolutely give Him a good slap and then a kick.
Couldn't keep watching; the interviewer is too pushy, presumptuous, choosing just the wrong words. Fire him.
Thanks, but no thanks. ;)
You're right DW English, that is a great idea to keep this journalist! Since you are an international German news media organization, it makes perfect sense to keep such an obviously biased and unprofessionally emotional journalist with incessant interruptions over Zoltan Kovacs to argue with the trouble makers in the future (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, and more recently, even Germany's southern neighbor Austria), and anyone in the European Union that don't bow their heads in obedience to the whims of Germany and Brussels when they dictate migration quotas. Anyone with half a brain should see the angle your organization had with this interviewer supporting Germany and the EU 100%, but what you in the media establishment and the political establishment fail to realize still even after Brexit and Trump's election is that people can smell the BS agendas' from the "objective" journalists and "most trusted news" sources. Your own government in Germany can't even form a coalition because the honeymoon with Merkel has since long faded away, and even Germans have grown in supporting anti-establishment views as shown with the AfD's election results. So, you are hardly in a position to verbally jumped down the throats of individuals like Zoltan Kovacs anymore since your own population is steadily sharing the same view on migration. Because of that, thanks but no thanks for your journalistic bias ; ) Tschüss!
You are not representing German opinion DW. Only yours and up yours. Thank you.
@@dwnews yeah, keep him. Believe that he is all that.
@ilk d we and all other English speaking foreigners speak American English. The English people (especially English politicians) talk like they just swallowed a dictionary.
The interviewer is incredibly aggressive.
hostile
A style!
@Toodie Britain as a country with history.
and very cocky puffed up smartass try to control Mr.Kovacs who is very professional and calm.
Agreed but I prefer it this way cause it shows if a person is true to his actions or not
who is that awful biased rude English man? never lets his questions be fully answered and cant wait to throw out one unsubstantiated accusation after another
Kate Bolger. Sounds like a regular media person to me unfortunately
When you Interview someone you DO NOT INTERRUPT THEM!!!
Let him finish answering your question at least ONCE!!!
Who ever sent this interviewer they think he is smart, and he is only smartass.....that's all.
HE ACHIEVED THE OPPOSITE: This journalist with his aggressive attitude (and the media empire supporting him) is one of the reasons why people in Europe are waking up, realising that there is a very strong agenda going on. So the fact that he is so aggressive and the fact that the mainstream media dismisses people's concerns is actually helpful because even more people will see through the game. You can foul people for a short while, but there is a point where your tactics backfire. Sad, really sad, because in theory I would really love to see a working, healthy European Union - made up of independent, friendly countries - but I wouldn't support a union that has a hidden game, aiming to steal power from independent nations in a hidden, very evil manner. The fact that the European Union is failing is partly the fault of these kind people and their supporting media.
Is this a journalist? An activist?
It's my observation that ALL MSM "Journalists" are SJWs
Greg Grimer- Then I suggest you get a better prescription from your Optometrist,because we(those not blind and deaf)just watched his OPEN BIAS in THIS interview.💁🤦♀️
@@ravenzyblack There is no open bias in this. Not even close. I think you most be this reporters personal technician or his lover to make such an obviously tendentious statement in this comment section. Well, if you are not blind and deaf, then open your eyes and ears - so that you can see and hear reality.
Just a total tool.
Neutral jurnalist? He didn't listen the answers. He has come with his homework done before the interview. Since when the media, and its financing network is the one who makes the rules, and the decisions? No one vote them to do that...
This interviewer is openly very hostile.
This is a hostile Left-wing activist not an interviewer. He presumes to tell another sovereign country what to do - he's a mouthpiece for EU Globalists. He's horrible.
The interviewer has such a strong agenda, he should be edited out so we can make sense of what Zoltan Kovacs is trying to convey.
I can't even bear to hear it till the end...
I love how Mr. Kovacs ignores the rudeness of the interviewer and plows through anyway. My favourite quip was: "You can say that but let's talk serious..."
Zoltan Kovacs is absolutely brilliant in this interview (as usual). I am very proud of him.
Stay strong Hungary!
well played Hungary!!.....don't give in to the undemocratic, bloated, out of touch EU :-)
Why would the EU be undemocratic?
Undemocratic.... Catalonia ring a bell? Germany back in January making it so Bavaria would not be able to become its own nation again..... Hate Speech Laws..... and so on..... Freedom is dying in the EUSSR!
Because the EU is forcing countries like Hungary to take in refugees?
DW English is not able to recognize that?
Ever heard of USSR before?
Hungary and Poland don't stand a chance. Poland already lost 3 cases within a month.
And none of these countries can afford to leave the EU.
Shame I really like Viktor Orban.
Pippie go and live in Paris & it might open your eyes or your legs !
That interviewer is just an EU stooge. The minister does not have to justify his country's actions to him! And I think the minister should tell him where to get off, frankly!
Hungary should have the right to decide its own immigration policy for itself and totally ignore the EU dictatorship. What the hell has it got to do with them? Hungary probably really wishes it hadn't joined. If something seems too good to be true, it usually is!
Fire the reporter.
Are you kidding? His handlers no doubt think he's a brilliant journalist LOL. Actually judging by the comments here I hope they turn little toad loose. Winning arguments for conservatives
LOL
The truth is that the EU does no longer recognise the sovereignty or needs of individual disparate member states. The club has changed and its their way or the highway. This is the time for countries to now call the EU's inflated hand and protect their national interests as wanted by their people/population. Look after your own people's interests Hungary, because the EU is now on a march to full federal US of E. It's make your make mind up time just like in the UK.
Other free states like the UK will respect Hungarian sovereignty and will be glad to trade with you.
Lot of respect for the Hungarian ministers restraint and doggedness in how he answers Tim Sebastian's childish jibes.
Tim Sebastian cannot handle any other ideas and values other than his blinkered own, ergo he is a bigot, and a rude one at that!
Of course the eu has been changed to destroy independent nations so a politburo controls everyones lives
It is funny to rewatch this interview in July 2018. "You are bad losers... you are bad losers." It's a hoot after the latest EU summit where most of what Hungary and Poland have been preaching for years now, have been accepted. If this is losing, I never want to win. :)
this government are looking after the people pf thier country. power to them ! a real government .
Tim Sebastian has interrupted the speaker on several occasions in very derogatory ways and that. should be unacceptable !! !
He needs to get beat up really bad, so that he will be humble and more respectful.
He's unprofessional, ill-bred and childish,
We are fed up with the EU.
Respect Hungary. From the UK.
Thanks !
Thank you. We wish you all the best for after Brexit. (From a Hungarian)
UK has always been a special country and will always be.
I cringed listening to this rude interviewer who continually interrupted and undermined Hungry's Prime Minister. Respect for Hungry. Interviewers like this are an embarrassment to the UK and European Union.
Deborah Hamilton he reminds me of the directors and headmasters of schools and orphanages from Victorian era novels. Such smuggery and talking down from a high horse...
Pan Kovack’s your English is impeccable, if it wasn’t for you this man could not even have the opportunity to interview you. I salute you. 🇵🇱👍🏻
Don't be mislead by the name DW English. The Editor is Arwa Al Obaidi, you must make your own guess as to the nationality of this character.
Yes, but the lousy old baster who sold himself, he is.
lol Maybe German? Like the Al-Jazeera English, where the paid lie-factory of The Guardian acting.
Very imprest by mr Zoltan
I wish I spoke Hungarian and was still young. I would immigrate there and tell them: I am ready to fight for Hungary and for Europe.
I have a strong urge to visit Hungary just to shake this man's hand
That interviewer enraged me and sent my blood pressure through the roof!
Many of us experienced it.
What an articulate man and patient man being interviewed. EU does not over ride sovereign or domestic state law, it MAY be incorporated if it is right, well said Zoltan. BRAVO!
I have just seen this interview for the first time and I feel so cross I’m shaking with rage... believe me watching that horrible evil man makes me feel so ashamed that he could be one of my countryman... Zoltan Kovacs was amazing he kept his self control and remained very patient...God bless him and well done.... Tim Sebastian sums up just what the EU is all about...nothing more than a bullying dictatorship imo and the quicker we can get rid of them all the better... In the UK even though the majority voted to leave with Brexit we are still having to fight as imo many in our government are corrupt like the EU!...but the British people [thanks to Nigel Farage] now realise what’s going on and we will never stop fighting until we get free of these evil people. God Bless you Hungary stand firm and don’t give in...Please don’t think all the English are like him...we are not we also wish to rid ourselves of people like this bullying rude man!
That journalist is such an arrogant and attacking man ...Well done to Hungary..
I wonder why no one is seeing the problem being created the external force. Someone has an interest for this disturbing hoard of millions of migrants to come to Europe. Hungary and the EU had a good standing relation for the last few decades, cause they need each other. Now the relationship is worsens because of this migration problem. We can either fix the problem or let the relation brake. It's up to all of us in the west to see this external treat and tackle it, or we will all be paying a heavy price! Brexit is just the beginning, Eastern Europe will be next. Itally is growing in unhappiness. Ms Merkel and Junker better admit their mistakes and fix them, or there will be war again in Europe!
Long live sovereign Hungary.
Why western european journalists think, that they have to teach hungarian politicians? Why they not let finnish sentences? Why they are not courious of the answers and why they just wants to attack the partner?
Because this fool has NO interest in truth. He's trying to get under his skin and it's not working, this Hungarian patriot is head and shoulders above Sebastian. He's running circles around this jerk in his second language.
"pro-government media" ? Sheer hypocrisy from this interviewer.
Tim Sebastian is someone with an agenda. The Hungarian minister was spot on with his rebuttal to the accusations. The EU is showing itself not fit for purpose. We have seen its bullying behaviour at play consistently from the EU and incompetence from its leadership. Unfortunately the Liberal Left media is ignoring the facts about the migration crisis. It is not about race it is about culture. Migrants that embrace Western culture have never been a problem, the migrant invasion of Europe are not integrating and are empowered by the Left Marxists and Liberal radicals. Multiculturism is a total failure, We need to think Multiracialism with one common culture. If people are not willing to fully embrace that then they need not come.
"Let's talk serious" absolutely right, its about time people started talking serious. Mr Kovacs handled this git with amazing patience.
Hungary has my highest respect...
As a Hungarian, I have a message to the EU. Leave Hungary and Eastern Europe alone!
Bet this interviewer lives in a gated community or equivalent.
Lots To Learn no hes a man getting a paycheck
N Shell : ... with a mortgage to pay while fearful he'll lose his current "equity" in that property.
As all the eu dons and remoaner bastards in london do
good for them - wish our lot had some spine!
go go Hungary
Dig in Hungary .Resist German Chauvanism.
Go Hungary, be strong, don't back down
I can't stand Tim Sebastian & journalists like him who look down their nose and talk down to interviewees like they have some moral high ground wrapped with self-entitlement 👎
Zoltan Kovacs I love when someone smart can stand their ground. Congratulations, you are class all the way.
Well Done Hungary...stay strong for your people. Tell the EU to get lost.
Tim WHO???
Zoltan Kovacs: respect to you. Wow, the interviewer is so unreasonably confrontational, he just stands against Kovacs's wisdom and sense.
A proper interview by a interviewer who asks searching questions which should be asked so don't blame him. Mr Kovscs answers very articulately , a good politician.
The way he is keeping his head cool in front of this bully 😲 We all have so much to learn from this kind of attitude
Hungarian officials are always attacked like this. They always eloquently defend themselves. Long live Viktor, and congrats on the EU elections this May 2019
Yes! If Europe has a future, it is on the Hungarian Model - and that is exactly what the people of Europe expected: a strong and united Europe for Europeans. If the current model prevails, then the EU will be disolved within 2 years, it's that simple. Personally, I believed and still believe in a united Europe - along the lines of the Hungarian model as so beautifully explained by the excellent Mr. Kovaks. But I'm being vague, so I'll be clear: there is only one hope for a united Europe and it's mutual respect for the member states as per the Hungarian model.
Cheers / Saluts
Very similar to the channel 4 interview between Cathy Newman and Jordan Peterson ! " So what you're saying is " ! GOTCHA ,
Hungary is CORRECT. EXCELLENT BRILLIANT TESTIMONY FOR UNITY OF YOUR TRUTH IN LOVING OF CHRISTIANITY!! GREAT LEADER!!
Anything that angers the EU works for me. Keep up the good work Hungary.
interviewer isn't interviewing, he's arguing, he"s lost his professionalism
Keep being strong Hungary! 👍
Tim Sebastion should be retired. He is well past interviews like this. I support Hungary in this.
I adore Hungary and Poland and their people! Strong, passionate and steadfast! 💖
Socialist or communist, hard to figure what the interviewer is!
God Bless Hungary. Stand firm against those who would dictate.
Just to add,well done Zoltan who performed well under provocation.
Even the interviewers background is red... finally we got some rolemodels who dare to fight against communism. THANK YOU HUNGARY AND POLAND
with Hungry values ruling the EU, Brexit would never have happened
I respect Hungary very much!
Greetings from Brazil!
He argues very well, speaks superb English and gives a very positive image to Hungary.
Britain and Hungary are on the same page. Well done.! Down with the EU.!
A+ for Kovacs and hungarian goverment
Love for Hungary from USA
i might start flying a Hungarian flag on my flag pole now and then . great respect from England.
Thanks, David ! We in Hungary are sad that Britain leaves the EU. And we stay here with these crazy Brusseles burocrats.
Thumbs up for Hungary.
Thanks, Simon !
This tells you ALL you need to know about the EU! the people of Hungary said an emphatic NO (I think even 92% in a referendum) to sharing their country with Syrian migrants, but that doesn't matter because the EU said yes! In other words how dare the people think that they are sovereign. I hate the EU - well done Hungary I'm glad you're standing firm. long live Hungary! Love from England.
Tim, you are "bad boy" interrupting people more intelligent than you!
Stand with Hungary
God bless Hungary 🇭🇺