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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivered his annual State of the Nation address to Parliament on Sunday (February 10th). REUTERS / Bernadett Szabo

Three months before the European elections, Viktor Orban delivered this Sunday his annual speech on the state of the nation, in front of the Parliament in Budapest. An offensive speech in which the Hungarian Prime Minister placed his campaign for the May Europeans under the banner of the defense of " Christian nations " against immigration, which he associated with violence.

With our correspondent in Budapest , Guillaume Carré

This speech, which is made every year before Hungary's return to parliament, must also be seen as the launch, for Viktor Orban, of the campaign for the European elections.

As is often the case, the Hungarian Prime Minister used a rather anxious rhetoric. After a long presentation of the undeniable economic successes of the country under his rule, Viktor Orban has returned to his obsession, the billionaire of Hungarian Jewish origin, George Soros, his pet peeve, and immigration.

According to Orban, the challenge of this European election is nothing less than the survival of Christian civilization against Brussels, which he believes has a whole plan to attract millions of immigrants to Europe, thus creating multicultural societies, leading in his view at the end of Christian civilization.

Against this threat, Viktor Orban enumerated in front of a room acquired to his cause a series of extremely ambitious pro-natalist measures.