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The government launches a large-scale billboard campaign against immigrants in support of the National Consultation on Immigration and Terrorism and holds a questionnaire campaign linking migrants with terrorism.
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At a Brussels news conference PM Orbán invokes Hungary’s 150 years under Ottoman rule as a reason why “Hungarians don’t want to live with Muslims again”
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The footage of Hungarian camerawoman Petra László tripping a refugee with child at the Serbian border causes global outrage and brings up the refugee/Islam-debate in Hungary.
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In a joint interview with Die Presse, Die Welt, The Times and Le Monde, PM Orbán deems Muslims “impossible to integrate” and his determination to avoid the “emergence of parallel societies and Muslim demographic booms as happening in the West”.
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The Paris massacre is heavily condemned by all major parties and is used as justification for their conservative Islamophobic stances.
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A Hungarian member of the European Parliament has been criticised for suggesting pigs' heads could be put on border fences to deter refugees.