Immigration security

Islam was 'never part of Europe': Hungary's Orban

Speaking to Germany's Focus news weekly about the record migrant influx, he said "the language of the European elite is ideological and dogmatic".

"Islam has never been part of Europe, it came to us," Orban told Focus in an interview to be published in full Saturday.

He conceded that Germany's Turkish migrants, who arrived in their tens of thousands from the 1960s for work, now "belong to German history and therefore Europe's too".

"But spiritually, Islam was never part of Europe. It's the rulebook of another world," said Orban.