Orbán and Trump are ‘extremely close’ allies, the Hungarian government believes

Hungary has never had such a strong and undisputable ally than Donald Trump who after being elected the next US president was to call Viktor Orbán first among European leaders on Wednesday, the communications director of the Fidesz-Christian Democrats said.

Trump and Orbán are extremely close allies

Donald Trump has become president of the United States, Menczer said, the man who referred to Orban as “a leader who defends his country” many times during his election campaign.

He noted on Facebook that the biggest-ever two diplomatic events in Hungary’s history were taking place in Budapest on Thursday and Friday, with the leaders of Europe discussing the issue of the continent’s security and ways of enhancing its competitiveness. “They are doing so aware of the fact that the new US president and the Hungarian prime minister are extremely close allies,” said Menczer, adding that the Ukrainian president, too, considered it important to travel to Budapest.

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Europe ‘more, bigger than EU’

Europe is “more and bigger than the European Union”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Budapest on Thursday, calling for closer cooperation on the continent.

Szijjártó held talks with his North Macedonian, Georgian, Monegasque, Armenian, San Marino and Turkish counterparts on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

He pointed out that they were all foreign ministers of non-EU countries, which meant that “Europe is more, Europe is bigger than the European Union.”

He said Europe’s security and competitiveness had declined in the recent period, and there was “more than one correct way” to improve the situation.

“One of these, no doubt, is that the European Union should be enlarged and should establish much closer and more coordinated cooperation with European countries that are not EU members,” Szijjarto said.

The key phrase is respectful cooperation

He said the EU was giving up significant growth potential by not admitting new members, not deepening ties with the Caucasus countries and by having failed to build “respectful cooperation” with Türkiye.

“And the European Union will continue to lose much more in the future as well unless it can become a real and full European integration,” he added.

“A policy of respect and openness is needed instead of a policy of closing ourselves off, getting offended and lecturing others,” the minister said.

Szijjártó said it was “unacceptable” that the Western Balkan countries have been waiting for the possibility of EU membership for an average of 15 years, and certain countries have been waiting 10 years to sign an association agreement. He said the EU should not apply “double standards” by rejecting countries in the east of Europe that elect “conservative, patriotic governments”.

“We hope this message will get through here at the European Political Community summit today,” he added.

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