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Anita Orbán unveils radical overhaul of Hungary’s foreign policy if Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party triumphs in April – video
In a chummy interview-style video, Péter Magyar, leader of the surging Tisza Party, sat down with Anita Orbán to sketch a vision for Hungary’s place in the world should Tisza seize power in the April general election. As Telex notes, Anita Orbán, once a fixture in Fidesz’s pro-Euroatlantic wing under figures like parliamentary foreign affairs committee chairman Zsolt Németh and ex-foreign minister János Martonyi (1998-2002, 2010-2014), echoes the opposition-era Viktor Orbán of the 2000s. Listening to her may remind us how far the prime minister has pivoted.
Anchoring Hungary firmly in the West
The duo’s amiable chat paints a clear picture: Anita Orbán, Hungary’s would-be top diplomat, stuck with the government only until Viktor Orbán ditched energy diversification for a cosy deal with Russia—the infamous Paks II nuclear plant, sealed in 2014 with a vast Russian loan. She jumped ship in 2015.
- Missed our piece on Anita Orbán’s career? Click and read the details.
“It’s good to be Hungarian,” Anita Orbán, unrelated to the premier Viktor Orbán, beamed, defining Central European spirit as a thirst for knowledge, unyielding resolve, and iron will. Her pitch? Ditch the current “shuttlecock” foreign policy—ping-ponging between East and West—for an idealistic commitment to the West. Top priority: resurrect Polish-Hungarian friendship and turbocharge Visegrád Four cooperation.
(For the record, those ties went off the rails thanks to Budapest’s Putin cosiness and meddling in Warsaw’s domestic rows. And, of course, without its strongest member, the Visegrád Four cannot be the same as it used to be)
No more friendly ties with Russia
The election, she insists, is also a referendum on Hungary’s EU membership. A Tisza government would unlock frozen EU funds, crippled by Orbán-era corruption. In Brussels, Hungary should swap vetoes for “win-win” deals that charm every partner.
On Ukraine? Ditch the pro-Russian tilt over the invasion. No weapons or troops from Budapest—but staunch defence for the at least 80,000-strong Hungarian community in Ukraine’s Transcarpathia region.
Sorting the Beneš Decrees—and beyond
Anita Orbán flags the thorny Beneš Decrees as job one: urgent talks with Slovakia’s foreign ministry to safeguard rights for the near-half-million indigenous Hungarians there. Péter Magyar weighed in, saying the new prime minister’s first stops should be Warsaw, Vienna and Brussels.
Fidesz fires back: ‘Lobbyist and puppet’
Not so fast, say Orbán loyalists. Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó accuses her of schmoozing for Western energy firms, urging him to snub cheap Russian gas. Fidesz parliamentary leader Máté Kocsis brands her an “agent” from the court of ex-liberal PM Gordon Bajnai (2009-10)—ideal for a Brussels puppet regime.
Relic of Fidesz’s vanished Euroatlantic wing
Telex recalls Anita Orbán as a envoy-at-large in PM Orbán’s second and third governments (2010-15), tied to pro-Western stalwarts like ex-foreign minister György Martonyi and Németh. She quit when Paks II scuppered her diversification crusade—a fight she’d waged since the 2000s.
Elevating her signals Tisza’s maturity: no longer Péter Magyar’s one man show, but a credible governing machine.
Listeners can tune in below to the riveting exchange between Magyar and Orbán on Hungary’s foreign policy horizon—with English subtitles:
Tiszas center-right stance and willingness to co-operate with EU and Visegrad sounds like a great step forward after Fidesz has turned Hungary into an anti-EU regime preferring government close oligarchs and dragging our living standards down while going along with Russian narratives.
I do agree, that resorting to Russian designed nuclear power is a huge mistake – history has already proven this.
And what does Fidesz leaders have to counter her ideas? Just the usual slogans: “Western agent” and “Brussels Puppet”.
Sometimes even opinionated old goats like me are lost for words. All I can come up with is, “Wow!”. This story is a very brief glimpse of something that I would welcome hearing more about.
Yawn.
We all know that Tisza and Magyar mean not Anita but Ursula, Soros, Zelensky, W.E.F., and all the rest of them. Globalism first, Hungary last.
No, thanks.
‘Globalism first, Hungary last’
Exactly right, Michael.
The only Hungarians who would prefer this are the Leftist in Budapest; they who believe that their own people are so badly flawed that the only solution can be to give Hungary away to the first aliens who can fund the bullet-less conquest of Hungary.
Say hello to the real shadow- government – not Dobrev Klara, but, Blackrock – it, conveniently, located right there in Budapest.
The trick
Another example of AI-created content. We all know that she is not Viktor’s daughter. This is a hallucination. Please correct these issues now.
“In a chummy interview-style video, Péter Magyar, leader of the surging Tisza Party, sat down with Anita Orbán—the prime minister’s own daughter, no less—to sketch a vision for Hungary’s place in the world…”
“the prime minister’s own daughter, no less”
Is this statement true?
The Foreign policy ideals presented by Anita Orban are the complete opposite of the current regime’s goals. That is a fact. Whether readers agree or not is what is debatable. However you guys read it, is it not possible that a breath of fresh air might just be the way to go? How can a new approach be any worse than being owned, lock stock and barrel, by Putin and cronies……and by Sergey Lavrov and his good conduct medals?
Shouldn’t we be debating the obvious error in this article about Anita being Viktor’s daughter instead. Was that intended or a journalist’s mistake?
Some confusion by publisher. I did not even pay attention to that as I was focusing on the issues mentioned in the article.
Daughter or not, issues are still there. I hope she can help Tisza bring Hungary back to part of Europe instead of Russia.
A translation of her intents?
Every anti-national and anti-Hungarian policy, that you could shake a stick at, will be pursued and enforced, in a manner exactly as Bruxelles would prefer.
With Miss Anita in charge, you might as well have Ursula van der Leyen, for they both believe in the same things, starting with a neverending and ruinous war with Russia..
Fortunately, Orbán Anita will never see power in Hungary, because Rural and Smalltown Hungarians are not going to vote for this, anymore than they will vote for an economic policy led by, Kápitány István – a Globalist technocrat.
Most Hungarians have little idea that this woman’s educational background, in Boston, means that she holds all the values that will lead to their replacement and enslavement.
That she looks like a lovely lady, with whom to have pastry at a local coffeehouse, is beside the point.
What a nice little rant, filled with insults, you had there dear Mouton. But do you have anything to say about the actual issues mentioned in the article and the video. You know: Russian nuclear energy dependency, restoring Visegrad co-operation for mutual benefit, restoring EU co-operation to unlock funds and protecting Hungarian diaspora? Go on; craft a good prompt to your favorite AI to create a nice informed opinion. Maybe prompt the AI to have a little less rant and insults this time.