The Hungarian government’s responsibility is to inform citizens of Brussels’ migration plans, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday in response to criticism of his campaign against European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker.

The government this week launched a taxpayer-funded campaign, including street billboards, newspaper ads, and videos, attacking Juncker and Hungarian-American businessman George Soros. The campaign has reignited an intense debate within the center-right European People’s Party (EPP) over the membership of Orbán’s Fidesz party in the political group.

Brussels is under the control of a “pro-migration majority,”Orbán said in his weekly interview on state-owned Kossuth Rádio, accusing Juncker directly of advocating for the legalization of migration to Europe.

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Accusing the “Brussels elite” of not being used to criticism, Orbán drew a comparison with the Habsburg Empire, telling listeners that “it is not possible to go into a campaign like we’re in the end of the 19th century at the time of Franz Joseph and say that everything is really nice, everything is very good, I’m happy with everything, while one of the world’s biggest economies left the European Union, and in the meanwhile millions of migrants entered the European Union.”

“For this somebody has to bear responsibility, and the truth is that the responsibility lies with the leaders of the European institutions,” Orbán said, adding that “it was in the Soviet times when it was not possible to speak about what the situation is like. The situation is bad,” he said.

EU decision-makers “all want to increase migration,” he said, warning that migration means Europe would no longer belong to Europeans. Brussels is “not even arguing with us” about the veracity of the campaign’s concrete points, he noted — though the European Commission earlier this week released a point-by-point rebuttal of the campaigns’ claims on migration policy.

Asked about an expected meeting of the EPP next week, Orbán said “we are prepared” to argue over the points of the campaign. He did not address the issue of his ruling Fidesz party’s membership in the group.