Brussels (The Brussels Morning Newspaper) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated that the European Union was gliding toward oblivion in a lengthy speech in which he cautioned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order” while tossing his support for Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential recommendation.
What Is Orbán’s View on the New World Order?
He contended that “Europe has given up safeguarding its interests”. “All Europe is doing today is tracking the U.S.’s pro-Democrat foreign policy unconditionally … even at the cost of self-destruction.” “A change is coming that has not been seen for 500 years. What we are encountering is a world order change,” he added, citing China, India, Pakistan and Indonesia as becoming the “dominant centre” of the world.
What Allegations Did Orbán Make About the Nord Stream Attack?
Viktor Orbán also alleged that the U.S. was after the 2022 explosions that harmed the Nord Stream gas pipelines constructed to carry gas from Russia to Germany, naming it “an act of terrorism carried out at the apparent direction of the Americans.”
How Does Orbán’s Stance on Ukraine Differ from Other EU Leaders?
On Ukraine, Orbán cast suspicion on the war-torn land becoming either a part of NATO or the EU. “We Europeans do not have the capital for it. Ukraine will revert to the function of a buffer state,” he stated, adding that international security guarantees “will be glorified in an agreement between the US and Russia.”
Orbán has broken with other EU heads by refusing to provide Kyiv with weapons to protect against Russian forces and has routinely postponed, watered down, or blocked steps to send financial aid to Kyiv and impose sanctions on Moscow.
Orbán utilises the annual Tusvanyos Summer University forum in Romania to indicate the ideological orientation of his national government and to criticise the standards of the EU bloc, which Hungary joined in 2004.
Why Is Orbán Supporting Donald Trump’s Presidential Bid?
Orbán stated that Trump’s bid for re-election desires “to pull the American people back from a post-nationalist liberal state to a nation-state” and rehashed a slew of conservative tropes that Trump is being penalized unfairly to prevent his electoral bid.
“That is why they want to put him in prison. That’s why they want to take away his assets. And if that doesn’t work, that’s why they want to kill him,” Orbán stated, referring to an assassination endeavour on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally this month.
In 2014, Orban announced for the first time his choice to build an “illiberal state” in Hungary, and in 2022, he flashed international outrage after he railed against Europe becoming a “mixed race” society. “There can be no question of a shrinking population supplemented by migration,” he said in his Saturday address. “The Western experience is that if there are more guests than owners, then home is no longer home. This is a risk that should not be taken.”
