The five-hundred-year era of dominance of Western civilization has ended, the strategy of Westernization of the whole world has collapsed, and the center of the world economy has moved to the East, and the next century will be the century of Eurasia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said.
"The liberal progressive hegemony of the Western world is over. The idea that the whole world should be organized according to the Western model, and that the chosen peoples should be ready to do it, has failed," Orbán said in a speech at the Eurasia Forum in Budapest.
According to him, the new reality is that the states of Asia "have become stronger and have proven themselves capable of rising, existing and surviving as independent centers of economic and political power", as a result of which "the world economy has shifted eastwards, and the eastern economies have quadrupled are growing faster than Western ones.''
Orbán believes that "the next century will be the century of Eurasia", as it is the largest continent, home to 70% of the world's population and more than 70% of the world's economy.
"If the European Union was a part of the USA, it would be the third poorest country, this shows that Europe is constantly losing. In the current processes, once defeated European countries are no longer among the top five of the world economy," he said.
