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<ul class=""><li><p>"[H]alf any given year's
total migrants arrive by the start of October. The other half arrives
between October and the end of December... If these tendencies remain
relevant, we should expect the very opposite of a winter break, and
should prepare instead for an increasing flood of people." -- Viktor
Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, September 21, 2015.</p></li><li><p>The UN High Commission for Refugees announced on Nov. 2 that the
number of people who illegally migrated to Europe in October alone
(218,394) nearly outstripped the number of those who entered throughout
the whole of 2014 (219,000).</p></li><li><p>The reality at Hungary's central railway station in Budapest had
to be seen to be believed. Hungarians were easily outnumbered 200 to 1
by predominantly young Muslim males. These newcomers engaged in sporadic
violence, rioted at the sight of camera crews, and left the station
littered with human excrement.</p></li><li><p>According to Björn Höcke, of the populist Alternative for Germany
Party (AfD), by the end of 2016 there will be as many Muslim males of
military age in Germany (5.5 million), as there are young German men of
that age.</p></li><li><p>On Nov. 2, Libya threatened to send to Europe millions of
migrants from Africa, unless the EU recognizes its self-declared
(Islamist) government.</p></li></ul>
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<p>Earlier this year, Hungary's ferociously <a href="https://youtu.be/acl35Uy6_XE?t=11m40s">articulate</a> Prime Minister Viktor Orbán became the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/06/the-guardian-view-on-hungaryand-the-refugee-crisis-orban-the-awful">bête noir</a> of European politics. Since then, Orbán has transitioned from being <a href="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/europe/2015-09-20/europes-hungary-problem">castigated</a> as a threat to European values, into the most recognized <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/24/orban-multiculturalism-endangers-christian-europe-leads-parallel-societies/">defender</a> of his continent's Christian identity.</p>
<p>In a Europe whose central policy-makers seem <a href="http://www.euc.illinois.edu/eucdw2011/documents/Huysmans_EUSecuritizationMigration.pdf">in thrall</a> to multiculturalism, Hungarians, after centuries of invasions and attempted invasions, appear unapologetically <a href="http://www.politics.hu/20150227/quotable-viktor-orban-on-hungarians-political-correctness-and-common-sense/">immune</a> to political correctness. Even in their language, the colloquial phrase for communicating with the bluntest possible candor is <i>magyarul mondva</i>, literally "speaking in Hungarian."</p>
<p>As <a href="http://news.sky.com/story/1570418/hungary-to-seal-off-border-with-croatia">over</a> 400,000 predominantly Muslim migrants <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34131911">crossed</a> illegally into Hungary before the completion of a border fence -- which ground such incursions to <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/10/29/hold-hungarian-border-fence-so-effective-illegal-immigrants-are-now-at-pre-migrant-crisis-levels/">an effective halt</a>
by the end of October -- there has been a sanctimonious effort in the
world's press either to mischaracterize realities on the ground, or omit
them altogether.</p>
<p>The concealment of sobering truths, openly reported in Hungary – ironically a nation whose press freedom has been <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/12/15/news-euronews-speaks-to-council-of-europe-about-human-rights-report-on-hungary/">criticized</a> under Orbán's leadership – can only have serious long-term consequences, in migrant-friendly countries such as <a href="http://www.7sur7.be/7s7/fr/34762/Crise-des-refugies/article/detail/2462801/2015/09/21/Accueillir-des-refugies-Preservatifs-gratuits-et-un-chauffage-a-22.dhtml">Belgium</a>, <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6697/sweden-collapse">Sweden</a> and <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6793/germany-20-million-muslims">Germany</a>, especially the scale.</p>
<p>The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/02/uk-europe-migrants-un-idUKKCN0SR14X20151102">announced</a>
on November 2 that the number of people who illegally migrated to
Europe in October alone (218,394) nearly outstripped the number of those
who entered throughout the whole of 2014 (219,000).</p>
<p>The figures, which even <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3300037/The-Latest-Afghanistan-accept-deportees-Germany.html">shocked</a>
members of the UNCHR, constitute the greatest monthly entry of illegal
migrants into the European Union to date. Many had apparently felt that
the legal <a href="http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-tries-to-unblock-refugee-migrants-relocation-deal-crisis/">imposition</a>
of quotas, initiated on September 22, and aimed at relocating migrants
across EU member states, would have at least begun to tackle the EU's
migrant problem.</p>
<p>The quota scheme, which pivoted on <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34331126">forcing</a> non-consenting member states to accept illegal migrants, has, in fact, been an abject failure. Only <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/world/europe/italy-sends-eritreans-to-sweden-as-eu-migrant-relocations-begin.html">Sweden</a> has participated directly.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, crossings from Turkey to nearby islands in Greece, the first step in the so-called <a href="http://frontex.europa.eu/assets/Publications/Risk_Analysis/WB_ARA_2015.pdf">Western Balkan route</a> -- the dominant corridor for illegal migrants at present -- have far from peaked, and are accelerating. As <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/octobers-migrant-flow-matched-whole-of-2014-no-sign-of-winter-decline/">winter seas</a> make Mediterranean conditions more difficult, the journey is apparently being offered at a discount.</p>
<p>To observers who speak Hungarian, however, the UNHCR's figures probably come as no surprise.</p>
<p>Addressing his nation's parliament, on September 21, and <a href="https://youtu.be/MQ9lLUuU6i4?t=8m11s">calling</a> this year's mass migration to Europe an "invasion," Viktor Orbán <a href="https://youtu.be/r2qplCO_yuc?t=12m29s">declared</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>There will be no such thing as a winter hiatus with
respect to the illegal immigration issue ... If one looks at the tables,
graphs and statistics -- often available in the public domain -- which
show the month-by-month influx of illegal immigrants to date, what one
sees largely is that half any given year's total migrants arrive by the
start of October. The other half arrives between October and the end of
December.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Unlike his European partners, Orbán sees this year's events not as an unprecedented "crisis," but the result of a <a href="http://dailynewshungary.com/strasbourg-court-rules-against-hungarian-state-in-somali-asylum-seekers-case/">steady</a> and entirely <a href="http://www.ekathimerini.com/202999/article/ekathimerini/comment/refugee-crisis-was-not-unexpected-top-un-official-says">predictable</a>
escalation, centered on the unwillingness of member states to defend
the union's external frontiers from human smuggling, which is an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wReCIsWXQ9c">obligation</a> under the EU's freedom-of-movement Schengen Treaty.</p>
<p>Orbán's analysis led him to <a href="https://youtu.be/r2qplCO_yuc?t=13m">conclude</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>There will be no let up; we should expect escalating
pressure. There is no reason for us to think that people-smugglers will
arrange their affairs and the routes they exploit any differently this
year than they have in previous years. If these tendencies remain
relevant, we should expect the very opposite of a winter break, and
should prepare instead for an increasing flood of people.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>As Hungary constructed its southern border fence, in line with its Prime Minister's calculations and <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/hungary-bulgaria-ask-israel-about-barrier-to-keep-out-migrants/">in consultation</a> with Israel, <a href="http://video.aljazeera.com/channels/eng/videos/hungary%3A-building-fences,-deterring-migrants%3F/4319512797001;jsessionid=B01577C1FE1D093234BC8253D0C582BE">experts worldwide</a> called the move both pointless and counter-productive.</p>
<p>Currently, as Germany is <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/world/europe/german-village-of-102-braces-for-750-asylum-seekers.html?_r=0">opening</a> new migrant reception centers weekly, Hungary is <a href="http://www.dehir.hu/debrecen/igy-nez-ki-a-szinte-teljesen-kiuritett-debreceni-menekulttabor-videoval/2015/11/02/">winding up</a> its own.</p>
<p>On November 3, Hungary's parliament voted <a href="http://en.apa.az/news/234480">overwhelmingly</a> to reject the imposition of mandatory quotas, paving the way for <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3305816/Hungarian-PM-says-Europe-build-future-immigration-instead-families-says-leaders-make-easier-parents-children-survival-civilization.html">legal action</a> against the EU, <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/sections/justice-home-affairs/slovakia-pushes-ahead-legal-action-over-eu-migrant-quotas-318139">in concert</a> with the left-wing government of Slovakia led by Robert Fico. Poland is <a href="http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2015/10/27/what-does-law-and-justices-election-victory-in-poland-mean-for-europe/">very likely</a> to follow suit.</p>
<p>Many political analysts have <a href="http://hungarianspectrum.org/2015/06/26/viktor-orbans-redefinition-of-the-refugee-crisis/">concurred</a> that Orbán has cynically <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/hungary-shamed-viktor-orban-refugee-hungarian-serbian">exploited</a>
the migration issue to shore up waning domestic popularity. This could
not be more wrong. Although Orbán's poll numbers certainly took a slide
in 2014, analysts similarly agreed in April that his <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5109b6f6-ee8c-11e4-88e3-00144feab7de.html#axzz3qZrF1TZd">national consultation</a> on migration constituted a catastrophic <a href="http://www.politics.hu/20150521/demonstration-against-orbans-national-consultation-on-immigration-and-terrorism-in-budapest/">miscalculation</a>.</p>
<p>It is easy to see why. Hungarians, after the 1956 uprising against
the Soviet Union, are extremely conscious of their own historic status
as genuine refugees. Some national billboards accompanying the
nationwide survey <a href="http://index.hu/belfold/2015/06/07/szabalysertesi_eljaras_indult_a_plakatrongalok_ellen/">were even defaced</a>, as the consultation had posed <a href="http://hungarianspectrum.org/2015/04/25/viktor-orban-will-take-care-of-hungarys-unwanted-immigrants/">robust questions</a>
on the likely consequences of mass Muslim immigration, which most
Hungarians had yet to witness, and which some found discomfiting.</p>
<p>But public opinion swung firmly in Orbán's favor, with the effective <a href="https://youtu.be/a45Dt74rsWc?t=1m19s">occupation</a> of Budapest's central railway station (<i>Keleti pályaudvar</i>).</p>
<p>The realities on the ground at Hungary's international railway terminus <a href="https://youtu.be/HwRrSKzqtHY?t=3m43s">had to be seen</a> to be believed. Hungarians were easily outnumbered 200 to 1 by predominantly young Muslim males. These newcomers engaged in <a href="https://youtu.be/Ny2DwXEuxPo?t=7s">sporadic</a> violence; <a href="https://youtu.be/DpYCHmZYOEA?t=9m25s">rioted</a> at the sight of passing camera crews, and left the station <a href="http://hvg.hu/itthon/20150805_Kocsis_Mate_a_migransokrol_szemetelnek_or">littered</a> with human excrement.</p>
<p>Migrants refusing to cooperate with authorities who wanted to take
them to reception centers, to participate in the EU's compulsory <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/sections/justice-home-affairs/eurodac-fingerprint-database-under-fire-human-rights-activists-316311">EURODAC</a> asylum registration process, <a href="https://youtu.be/JY-qvC-9UPM?t=38s">chanted</a> "no fingerprint" in unison. Frustrated, many charged down <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3223021/March-migrants-thousands-desperate-refugees-begin-100-mile-walk-freedom-ROBERT-HARDMAN-witnesses-frenzied-attempts-Hungary-Austria.html">motorways</a> towards Austria, a move that led to the closure of major transport arteries.</p>
<p>Unlike the domestic Hungarian media, the international press reported
little of the full gravity of events in Hungary. The international
press failed to warn nations from <a href="https://youtu.be/3t7wypDW0jY?t=1m40s">Austria</a> to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKRI4SjHV8k">Finland</a> of what was headed their way. Journalists concentrated <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/fleeing-children-pictured-screaming-crying-6372058">instead</a> on the handful of <a href="https://youtu.be/f0CF9c8B_3M?t=7m53s">children</a> present, to sell a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/reporters-notebook/migrants/budapest-s-keleti-train-station-has-become-a-de-facto-refugee-camp">sob story</a>.</p>
<p>Such reporting led Croatia to <a href="http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/09/29/431257/Croatia-Hungry-refugee-crisis-Zoran-Milanovic-Janos-Ader">charge</a> Hungary with the "inhumane" treatment of "refugees," while Austria <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/13/us-europe-migrants-idUSKCN0RC0GL20150913">claimed</a>, astonishingly, that Hungary's behavior was reminiscent of the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/world/treatment-of-migrants-evokes-memories-of-europes-darkest-hour.html">Holocaust</a>. As migrants arrived in those nations, however, both countries rapidly backtracked.</p>
<p>While Hungary was being <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/07/opinion/hungarys-xenophobic-response.html">castigated</a> for supposed <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/10/xenophobia-eastern-europe-refugees/410800/">xenophobia</a>
and for Orbán's rhetoric, no one seemed to have considered that perhaps
the most historically-invaded country in Europe knew what an invasion <a href="https://youtu.be/TD60lDlnLQM?t=52s">actually</a> looked like, better than most.</p>
<p>Nor did many of the people <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/hungary-shamed-viktor-orban-refugee-hungarian-serbian">criticizing Hungary</a>
stop to think that maybe, with such a prominent awareness of once being
refugees themselves, Hungarians might be more cognizant of the
gratitude, relief and forbearance that marks the conduct of a genuine
refugee.</p>
<p>Instead, Hungary was confronted by <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3227436/Syrian-refugees-turned-Lesbos-war-zone-residents-claim-migrants-chant-f-Hungarian-police-amid-fears-ISIS-using-crisis-enter-Europe.html">aggressive</a> economic migrants in numbers so huge that the authorities were "<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/video-shows-hungarian-police-throwing-food-refugees-camp/story?id=33670156">all but submerged</a>." As the migrants <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3217584/Angela-Merkel-hints-bringing-border-checks-Syrian-refugees-boarding-trains-Hungary-chant-Germany-come.html">demanded</a> transit to welfare states they had paid handsomely to reach, they <a href="https://youtu.be/SRhI0Xqv5Rc?t=55s">threw food and water</a> back at the same Hungarian officials being <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/hungary/11831379/Hungary-accused-of-treating-refugees-inhumanely-as-migration-crisis-worsens.html">pilloried</a> by the world's media for their own efforts to cope.</p>
<p>The nadir of the global press coverage of Hungary came with a defensive <a href="https://youtu.be/w4E4qlmSg-I?t=4m17s">action</a> involving tear gas and water cannons, when, on September 16, its frontier post at Röszke was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3BxLMq5lvY">closed</a> to illegal entry. The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0CF9c8B_3M">false</a> story <a href="https://youtu.be/OEeW0-gFHKI">sold</a> by the world's media led the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/hungary-refugees-ban-ki-moon-eu-serbia">condemn</a> Hungary.</p>
<p>No mention was made outside the country of how Hungary's police had
reacted solely with non-lethal crowd control tactics -- resorting to
these only after a <a href="https://youtu.be/zoqV1YMBZyA?t=1h14m14s">three hour standoff</a> that <a href="http://mandiner.hu/cikk/20150916_konnygazt_vetettek_be_a_horgos_2_atkelonel">injured</a> 20 police officers, who had resisted persistent <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt41uQshECc">violent</a> efforts to storm the country's border.</p>
<p>The most conspicuous press failure, however, concerns the key question: With the EU's border agency Frontex <a href="http://www.thelocal.de/20151104/800000-irregular-eu-entries-in-2015-frontex">confirming</a> on November 4 that 800,000 have illegally crossed into Europe so far in 2015, each likely paying <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3201855/We-paid-1-200-Tonight-ll-Syrian-migrant-tells-paying-people-smuggler-transport-family-sea-Turkey-Greece-souvenir-shops-sell-lifejackets-desperate-refugees.html">$1000</a> to <a href="http://ann.az/en/migrant-crisis-afghan-people-smuggler-talks-frankly/#.VjrKdbfhCUk">$5000</a> to a <a href="http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123247/king-shores-interview-syrian-refugee-smuggler">people-smuggler</a>,
how is this colossal total expenditure -- entirely outside the means of
genuine refugee camp residents in Turkey or Jordan -- being funded?</p>
<p>Georg Spöttle, an Arabic-speaking German national security expert
resident in Hungary, with unique access to the intelligence communities
in both countries, has been studying the sources of money used by
migrants to traverse Europe. He has frequently <a href="https://youtu.be/9VqBqo4tYjk?t=6m3s">identified</a> Gulf States, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as the true source of the funds.</p>
<p>Spöttle has also examined some of the thousands of pictures and
videos found on mobile phones discarded by migrants before entering
Hungary. <a href="http://youtu.be/bXcaNeiVlOk?t=1m7s">Many images</a>, in his view, are likely to be in the possession only "of those either sympathetic to terrorism or terrorists themselves."</p>
<p>For other observers, the most alarming evidence thrown up in central
Europe by this year's migrant influx lies in the nature of the identity
documents being discarded, at the last stop on the Western Balkan route,
before migrants head towards the EU's freedom-of-movement zone.</p>
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<td style="max-width:600px;border:1px solid black"><img src="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/pics/large/1340.jpg" border="0" height="330" width="600"><p style="font-size:82%;margin:4px 6px">Thousands of migrants cross illegally into Slovenia on foot, in this screenshot from YouTube video filmed in October 2015.</p></td>
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<p>In Serbia, the price of superglue has <a href="https://youtu.be/9VqBqo4tYjk?t=6m3s">increased 100-fold</a>,
given that, when spread across a person's fingertips, it temporarily
allows an imprint of bogus fingerprints on a biometric EURODAC scanner.</p>
<p>Many of the documents thrown away at the Hungarian border <a href="http://www.hirado.hu/2015/09/28/miert-dobaljak-el-az-irataikat-szir-migransok/">include</a>
genuine Syrian civilian and military identity papers that would
automatically entitle their holder to residence in Germany. The act
seems highly irregular: Serbian identity papers, valid Swedish residency
documents, papers confirming political refugee status from Jordan, and
European passports, <a href="http://www.hirado.hu/2015/09/28/jon-a-hideg-egyre-tobb-bevandorlo-szorul-orvosi-ellatasra-migranshelyzet-percrol-percre/">have all been found</a> strewn across the border.</p>
<p>The only conclusion that can be drawn from such evidence collected at
the EU's external frontier, argues Hungary's most notable security
analyst, is that it points to the behavior of individuals intent on
establishing jihadist <a href="https://youtu.be/fYbxbee2mb0?t=2m58s">sleeper cells</a>
in Europe. Or alternatively, that many Muslims with criminal records,
already resident in the EU, could be exploiting the migrant crisis to
establish entirely <a href="https://youtu.be/9VqBqo4tYjk?t=2m">new identities</a> for themselves before <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/refugees-vanish-from-german-centers/a-18821758">disappearing</a> across the continent.</p>
<p>The only solution to an ever increasing influx, first from the Middle East, and then, <a href="http://www.miniszterelnok.hu/in_english_article/speech_of_viktor_orban_at_the_epp_congress">in Orbán's view</a>,
of even greater numbers from Africa, is to intercept and safely return
migrant boats to their points of departure. On May 11, however, this
"pushback" policy was utterly repudiated by Federica Mogherini, the
European Commission's foreign policy chief. Her <a href="http://www.voanews.com/content/europe-calls-on-un-to-back-operation-to-tackle-migrant-flow/2763183.html">announcement</a> may well have acted as the spark for this year's unprecedented migrant figures.</p>
<p>Orbán's proposal, a combined European effort to police the narrow
stretch of water between Turkey and nearby islands of Greece, has been <a href="http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=8d5_1443062318">rejected</a> by the EU's leaders. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lesbos-mayor-spyridon-galinos-how-i-am-coping-with-up-to-7000-new-refugees-each-day-a6707696.html">are still</a> being allowed to enter the EU illegally, thanks to the newly <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34694420">strengthened</a>
Islamist government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. At the
moment, he is trying to bully Brussels into giving Turkey the features
of an actual European Union membership <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-defense-of-christendom-1445296794">step-by-step</a>.</p>
<p>Hungary, perhaps to demonstrate how a combined border-protection
initiative could work, is already using a joint cooperation force to
defend its own EU frontier, with local <a href="http://www.visegradgroup.eu/calendar/2015/joint-statement-of-the-150904">partners</a> from <a href="http://www.bumm.sk/kulfold/2015/10/31/v4-es-hatarorok-megkezdtek-a-szolgalatot-a-cseh-rendorok-a-magyar-szerb-hataron">Slovakia</a>, the <a href="http://www.metropol.hu/itthon/cikk/1369343-cseh-es-lengyel-segitseg-magyarorszagnak">Czech Republic</a> and <a href="http://www.hirado.hu/2015/11/04/lengyel-hatarorok-jonnek-magyarorszagra/">Poland</a>.</p>
<p>The presence and power of Mogherini, whose fondness for political Islam has already been <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6188/iran-deal-mogherini">analyzed</a> at the Gatestone Institute, is a damning indictment of the European Union's claim to democratic legitimacy.</p>
<p>Thanks to what many felt was a profound <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10855876/European-elections-2014-EU-citizens-vote-against-immigrants-austerity-and-establishment.html">dissatisfaction</a> with mass migration into the EU, Europe experienced a <a href="http://www.euronews.com/2014/05/26/juncker-claims-centre-right-win-in-european-elections/">marked</a> turn to the political right in the 2014 European parliamentary elections.</p>
<p>A conservative European Commission was "<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/eu-elections-2014-schulz-vs-juncker-the-battle-to-become-president-of-the-european-commission-that-9372425.html">elected</a>" in turn -- but it nevertheless appointed Mogherini, a former Italian <a href="http://www.euractiv.com/sections/global-europe/profile-federica-mogherini-next-eu-foreign-affairs-chief-308102">Communist</a>, to the most senior border-protection role in Europe. No matter how its people vote, the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29731120">commitment</a> of the EU's institutions to a borderless Europe, both internally and externally, appears to remain undaunted.</p>
<p>It is clear, however, from remarks delivered in his nation's capital
on October 31, that Viktor Orbán's patience with the EU has finally been
exhausted. "Europe is being betrayed," he told a <a href="http://mno.hu/politika/orban-europat-elarultak-es-el-fogjak-tolunk-venni-1311593">Christian conference</a> in Budapest. "It is being taken from us."</p>
<p>Thousands of migrants <a href="https://youtu.be/lkDa71iz868?t=8s">shipped</a> to the EU daily, Orbán <a href="http://magyaridok.hu/belfold/orban-viktor-teljes-beszede-az-idok-jelei-vitairat-bemutatasakor-87373/">argued</a>, are "not a result of indecisiveness," but the product of a conscious "left-wing" <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-migrant-crisis-national-borders-are-the-obstacle/">conspiracy</a> to curb the relevance of Europe's sovereign nation states by undermining their ethnic foundations.</p>
<p>With the EU having no perceptible mandate, this effort amounts to "treason," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OF0MKYhMkA">he said</a>,
which must be countered by national democracies turning to their
people. If not, he said, these people risk losing the ownership of their
continent unless a Europe-wide consultation on mass migration
immediately takes place.</p>
<p>The next migrant wave (50,000) is scheduled to arrive at the Austrian
border next week. A ferry strike in Greece has caused a backlog, which
is now moving its way through the Balkans.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjlKO6hCRoc&feature=youtu.be&t=9m30s">According to Björn Höcke</a>,
of the populist Alternative for Germany Party (AfD), by the end of 2016
there will be as many Muslim males of military age in Germany (5.5
million), as there are young German men of that age.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, on November 2, Libya <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/11970313/Libya-warns-it-could-flood-Europe-with-migrants-if-EU-does-not-recognise-new-Islamist-government.html">threatened</a> to send to Europe millions of migrants from Africa, unless the EU recognizes its self-declared (Islamist) government.</p>
<blockquote><p><i>George Igler is a political analyst in the City of London and the Director of the Discourse Institute.</i></p>
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