In an Italian television interview that was aired on Sunday, Juncker stated that he dislikes the immigration policy of Viktor Orbán. According to him, Orbán’s policies lead to „exaggerated nationalism”.

„He won’t accept these miserable people. I oppose all form of xenophobia.”

He also professed his ideas that nationalism inevitably leads to wars and that the identity of Europe must come before national identity. Though he did not elaborate as to what this European identity actually entails.

But the Hungarian PM did not come up short regarding a response. As Viktor Orbán put it,

Jean-Claude Juncker received heavy criticism from across the globe after he gave a speech during the ceremony that marked the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx’s birth.

It is astounding in the first place that Juncker commemorated a communist philosopher who was a raging anti-Semite. As known, in his 1843 writing „On the Jewish Question”, Marx writes the following:

„Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man […] The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world.”

Or we can also turn to his „masterpiece”, Das Kapital:

„The capitalist knows that all commodities, however scurvy they may look, or however badly they may smell, are in faith and in truth money, inwardly circumcised Jews, and what is more, a wonderful means whereby out of money to make more money.”

Not only that, but Marx also despised Christianity. After all, one of the most paraphrased statements of the communist philosopher is

„Religion is the opium of the people.”

Knowing this, it is quite absurd for Jean-Claude Juncker, who in theory is a conservative politician, to commemorate Marx. What’s more, the Eurocrat from Luxemburg was the leader of the Christian Social People’s Party from 1990 to 1995.

It would seem however, that for Juncker, Christianity means nothing more, than an exploitable political product.