Orban: Brussels has attacked Hungary

"Brussels has attacked Hungary," Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in his regular interview on public radio on Friday, adding that was why a referendum concerning child protection was necessary. Orban insisted that in a document sent to the Hungarian government the European Commission demanded that Hungary change its child protection laws. Although family and child protection laws are a national competency, Brussels has "put enormous pressure on us", Orban said. "They will blackmail, threaten, and launch infringement procedures, delay payments, but we cannot give in because the future of our children is at stake," he said.