Jewish community leaders 'voice alarm' after Hungarian leader spoke out against creating "people's of mixed race" .
Holocaust Survivors Slam Race Remarks By Hungary's Orban ![]()
Jewish community representatives on Tuesday voiced alarm after Hungarian leader Viktor Orban spoke out against creating "peoples of mixed-race".
In a speech in Romania's Transylvania region, which has a large Hungarian community, the 59-year-old ultra-conservative prime minister criticised mixing with "non-Europeans". Terming Orban's speech "stupid and dangerous", the International Auschwitz Committee called on the EU to continue to distance itself from "Orban's racist undertones and to make it clear to the world that a Mr. Orban has no future in Europe."
The speech reminds Holocaust survivors "of the dark times of their own exclusion and persecution," the organisation's vice-president Christoph Heubner said in a statement sent to AFP. Heubner called specifically on Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer to make a stand when he hosts Orban on an official visit to Vienna on Thursday. "We do not want to become peoples of mixed-race," Orban said on Saturday.