Orbán

With six weeks left before a parliamentary election, the outcome is an embarrassment for Orbán’s Fidesz party and Hódmezővásárhely native János Lázár, Orbán’s chief of staff, who had personally campaigned in favour of Hegedus.

A country can defend itself if its citizens love their homeland and are ready to defend it in trouble rather than fleeing from it, Orbán said in an interview.

All of Hungary’s gas imports go through Turkiye and “if he turns it off, there will be no gas, but if it is open, there will be gas”, Orbán said.

As in so much of right-wing politics, Hungary’s Orbán provides the role model.

Concerning Hungary’s staying away from a European Council vote on starting accession talks with Ukraine, Orbán said it had had to be avoided that the 26 other members “should force their will upon Hungary”.

Despite such dire predictions, European Commission spokesperson Eric Mamer said at a briefing on Monday that he trusted the intelligence of Hungarian voters to distinguish between the EU’s real aims and those claimed by Orbán.

Erdoğan had first lavished a Turkish-made electric vehicle on Orbán during the strongman love-in.

European leaders are frustrated about the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, in Beijing this week.

He said price caps were “not working” and that Orbán’s work-based society did not provide the security of a livelihood.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán appears to be courting Vladimir Putin, and turning his back on the EU.

In his Friday radio appearance, Orbán went on to accuse George Soros of acting as a “war speculator” and trying to stymie attempts from figures such as himself to peacefully negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.

It was, instead, Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán – sometimes Russia’s “Trojan horse in the EU” – who the transfer of €50 billion (£43 billion) in EU aid to Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Orbán said that the budget proposal put forward at the EU summit in Brussels was deemed to be “undeveloped and unfit” for serious negotiations.

Meanwhile, Orbán said there could be “no forgiveness” for paedophilia, adding that children were “sacred and inviolable”.

Orbán has put an authoritarian playbook in place that DeSantis appears to be following: it’s widely thought, for example, that Florida’s “don’t say gay” law was modeled on Hungary’s anti-LGBTQ+ laws.

Orbán said there was one more issue “which must be decided by all means” on Friday.

Orbán said Ukraine financially was “a non-existent country” as the EU, including Hungary, financed its operations.

Rather than promoting peace unanimously, the world is divided, Orbán said: Turkic and Arab states, China and African countries want a ceasefire and peace talks, he said.

Some opposition politicians in Hungary — who have argued for immediate approval of Sweden’s bid — believe that Orbán’s party is following Ankara’s timetable and will vote to approve once it seems clear that Turkey will imminently do the same.

The EU has accused populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of cracking down on LGBT rights and has openly challenged them.