Orbán cabinet: Europe ‘should stop marching down a dead end’

Last week’s summit of European leaders in London was about “thwarting the United States’ peace efforts”, the prime minister’s political director said on Tuesday, adding that this had made the meeting a “pro-war gathering based on the logic of continuing the previous unsuccessful Western strategy”.

Is Europe ‘marching down a dead end’?

Speaking to public current affairs channel M1, Balázs Orbán said it was good that Hungary had not been invited to the meeting, saying it meant that everyone was aware of the country’s “consistently pro-peace position that Europe should stop marching down a dead end”.

Hungary, he said, recommended aligning the European strategy with that of the US and initiating direct talks with Russia “to try to end the bloodshed”.

He noted that Hungary had recommended that Europe change course on multiple occasions, saying it was clear that “the world order is changing” and would favour countries that were capable of shaping and defending their own sovereign strategies.

Orbán said the “problem with the EU” was that its “liberal left-wing globalist leadership has navigated it into an untenable situation in recent years, making it an isolated political actor”. He insisted that the EU had ended its cooperation with Russia on energy, entered into a trade war with Russia and was close to falling out with the new US administration for ideological and geopolitical reasons.