Hungary’s foremost foreign policy priority will be to restore trust, rebuilding the country’s standing within both the European Union and NATO, Anita Orbán, the foreign minister-designate, told Parliament’s Committee on European Affairs at her pre-appointment hearing on Monday. She talked about how the new Tisza government would like to unlock frozen EU funds, tackle migration issues, what the EU demands, and whether Hungarian troops could be deployed to Ukraine under the EU’s flag.
Securing the release of frozen EU funds is paramount
The Tisza Party politician stressed that one of Hungary’s most pressing national concerns is the recovery of withheld European Union funds. The task, she said, is to regain lost confidence and meet the necessary conditions to unlock resources rightfully due to Hungarians.
She noted that the EU expects Hungary to achieve objectives that voters themselves endorsed on 12 April. These include ensuring an independent judiciary, maintaining transparent and verifiable public procurement processes, preventing corruption cases from being dismissed on political grounds, guaranteeing the transparent use of EU funds, and ensuring that public money retains its public character.
Hungary will not be an obstacle
Echoing a phrase once favoured by the former prime minister—that Hungary could act as a “spoke in the wheel” of the European Union when opposing what Viktor Orbán deemed harmful processes—Orbán outlined a new foreign policy direction in which Hungary would instead seek to become a driving force within the bloc. The use of veto power as a blunt instrument, she indicated, would cease. Should Prime Minister Péter Magyar resort to it, it would be for sound reason.
She argued that cooperation with the European Union is not detrimental, nor does Brussels demand that Hungary bow unprincipled to external dictates. Rather, she said, the EU has asked only for the following in exchange for releasing frozen funds: an independent judiciary; clean and verifiable public procurement; transparent use of EU resources; and the safeguarding of the public nature of state funds.
According to Orbán, voters have granted a historic mandate to implement these measures and thereby secure the funds owed to Hungary.
Migration and the war in Ukraine
Responding to questions, Orbán said that the daily €1 million fine imposed on Hungary over migration must be brought to an end. This, she suggested, would require allowing asylum seekers arriving at Hungary’s borders to submit applications for refugee status. She added that the EU’s migration pact does not entail mass immigration into Hungary, but rather mutual assistance among member states facing significant migratory pressure—whether through accepting a limited number of migrants or offering financial or logistical support.
What we know so far about Anita Orbán
In response to opposition MPs, she made clear there is no intention for Hungarian troops to set foot on Ukrainian soil under any circumstances.
On the EU’s SAFE loan facility for development projects in Hungary, she said the European Commission is still assessing the Hungarian proposal, which the Tisza leadership has yet to review.
Committee backs Anita Orbán
Orbán appeared before the Committee on European Union Affairs, which subsequently voted on her suitability for ministerial office. Six members supported her, while two abstained.
Last Thursday, Orbán travelled to Rome alongside Péter Magyar to attend talks with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. Magyar has previously stated that, as prime minister, his first official visit would be to Warsaw, followed by Vienna, and then Brussels. He has held office officially since last Saturday.
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In other words, it’s going to be a case of Brussels says “jump!,” and Tisza asks “how high and when do you want me to come back down?”
Our money will go to Ukraine for the, ahem, “war” “efforts,” while our streets will go to third-world garbage, rapists, terrorists, and parasites.
Way to go, voters. Good bye, Hungary. It’s been real.
Steiner at least the propaganda apparatus of Fidesz will now be dismantled so that you have a chance to return to reality. What I can tell you with complete certainty and remember this – Fidesz will never form a government again in Hungary.
Hungary bids you bon voyage too. We hope you find a place to live that offers you what you’re looking for for it’s clear that Hungary no longer does.
Definitely a good policy change. We need EU. We need the support money from other EU countries to develop our country into an economically successful society. Maybe then one day, several years from now, we could become contributors to EU. So far we have just received other EU countries taxpayers´ money.
Everything that EU is asking for should be self-evident in a normal democratic society. Only during Orban era authoritarian ruling these were not possible as transparency would have jeopardized the widespread corruption that was prevalent in Orban era.
“EU has asked only for the following in exchange for releasing frozen funds: an independent judiciary; clean and verifiable public procurement; transparent use of EU resources; and the safeguarding of the public nature of state funds.”
You do not understand how muslim immigration is destroying most of Europe. I am a Norwegian living in Budapest, because my home country is destroyed by muslims and EU. You do not know what you wish for.
“She added that the EU’s migration pact does not entail mass immigration into Hungary” – See this is where they get you. They do not look at illegals as illegals. They look at them as “refugees”, avoiding calling them illegal migrants, which is what they are.
How low Fidesz brought Hungary that the incoming foreign minister actually had to say that “cooperation with the EU is not detrimental”. Meanwhile Fidesz would say that “cooperation with Russia is not detrimental”. The positive change in Hungary will be enormous. Fidesz will be so discredited that chances are it may fold as a political party before the next election in four years time. If it chose to run again it would get even less seats than it got now and perhaps none.
If I had to look into my crystal ball it’s touch and go whether they’re going to pass the 5% threshold at the next election. Mi Hazank will cream off the most radical Fidesz voters, the most moderate already joined Tisza before the election and as the taxpayer funded propaganda machine hits the buffers, ever greater numbers of erstwhile Fidesz voters will realise that a Tisza government is rather similar to Fidesz on the political spectrum but executed properly. Fidesz has nowhere left to go but down the drain, pinched on both sides by Mi Hazank and Tisza.
I should clarify my comment about Tisza and Fidesz similarities. The governing party is similar to Fidesz circa 2010, not in 2026. The most recent Fidesz incarnation was distateful and resoundingly rejected by voters in Hungary for this reason. I’m explicitly exluding the party list votes from neighbouring countries which will immediately transfer to Tisza when they see evidence that money continues to flow to support ethnic Hungarian communities. They have little interest in domestic Hungarian matters being naturally more concerned with the performance of their own national governments to whom they pay taxes and expect services in return.
They promised to refuse the EU’s migration quota. Are they trying to backtrack here? That would be a massive disappointment.
The Hungarian voters have been thoroughly deceived!Magyar Péter got the role of waving the Hungarian flag, while Orbán Anita and Kapitány István carry out the globalist turnaround. This is not submission to Brussels — it is treason committed for the decision-makers of the City of London.Let’s not fool ourselves: during the campaign, Magyar Péter shouted loudly that he would not dismantle the southern border fence. He doesn’t even need to. By abolishing the legal border closure, if an illegal migrant can submit their asylum application from within Hungarian territory, Hungary will become completely defenseless!The next step in Brussels’ legal harmonization will be the establishment of open reception centers.Unfortunately, the average Hungarian voter is an idiot…
Exactly István! The same agenda as they used in Western Europe.