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PM Orbán year-end interview about the migration pact and joining Europe’s war
In his year-end interview with public news channel M1, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that in the 2026 general election, he would seek a mandate from Hungarians “to keep Hungary out of Europe’s war”.
Keep Hungary outside the “war alliance”
“I ask the people for authorisation to strengthen me in keeping Hungary outside the European war alliance,” he declared, emphasising that the coming vote must clarify whether Hungary joined the “coalition of the willing” supporting war or remained neutral.
He said a another world “is taking shape before our eyes”, and people want to forge a path that led them to the most secure future.
“If we stay out, we can maintain a peace-time economy; the alternative is a war economy,” he warned, arguing that the latter would mean “our money sent to Brussels, then to Ukraine, and impoverishment for Hungary.”
“I have always been an optimist, and I am one now,” he added.
2 pillars: work-based economy, family-centred society
“We know what we are asking for, what we will do with the power entrusted to us,” he said, calling the choice “existential”. Hungary’s stability, he insisted, rested on the dual pillars of a work-based economic system and a family-centred society, both of which he said were distinct from Brussels’ model.
Likening the government ot a “mother ship”, he declared: “No drones will replace this”, and he rejected calls for radical shifts in governance. “Hungary stands for sovereignty, family policy, and merit-based economics, not migration, gender ideology, or subordination to Brussels.”
Addressing criticism of ruling party Fidesz’s adaptability, he dismissed the idea of “paralysis” following the rise of opposition Tisza Party leader Peter Magyar, arguing that governing parties must focus on governance, not opposition manoeuvres.
“Campaigns have their time; so does governing,” he said.
Constant renewal
Regarding internal party dynamics, he acknowledged the inevitability of opportunists but added that Fidesz’s leadership remained self-reflective and reform-minded. “Every cabinet needs improvement,” he said, “but the ship will always have a few stowaways bridge– just don’t let them near the wheel.”
The prime minister underscored his optimism, citing Hungary’s “action-capable” government as its greatest asset. He cautioned against “partisan decisions”, pointing to the presidential pardon scandal as a lesson in the risks of unchecked individual judgement. “Politics demands constant renewal,” he said. “Those who don’t learn, don’t adapt, and will fail.”
Puppet government?
The prime minister dismissed the opposition’s recent reshuffle as mere ‘personnel changes’, arguing that its core remained the same: “forces determined to implement Brussels’ directives by accepting migration pacts, joining Europe’s war, adopting gender regulations, and shifting to a war economy.”Orbán said his priority was not to campaign but ensure Hungary could “avoid the threats of war and war-time economics”.
He said the 2026 election would be a decisive referendum: would Hungary continue its policy of neutrality, or align with Brussels? The past year, 2025, marked a historic watershed, he argued. Referring to Ukraine, he said that for the first time the US and Europe had split on a strategic issue, with Washington pushing for peace while Europe doubled down on war. “The Europeans rejected peace and chose war, forcing us to recalibrate,” Orbán said.
Hungary stands by peace
Hungary’s response was clear: “We stood by the US peace initiative, resisted Brussels’ war agenda, and bore the consequences.” Orbán said Hungary had built its plans 2025 being a breakthrough year, moving from war to peace, and the Hungarian economy would regain its momentum. “This is not what happened…” he added.
In western Europe, he said, economic policy centred on austerity on the back of a war economy, with rising taxes, a higher cost of living, and mounting debt. Recalling 2024, when both Washington and Brussels pressured Europe to join the anti-Russia coalition, Orbán emphasised Hungary’s success in maintaining neutrality through “sovereignty, decisive leadership, and broad public support”. Though 2025 saw US-EU tensions ease with President Donald Trump’s election, Europe’s refusal to end the war dashed hopes of economic recovery.
Peace-time economy
“We had to ask: How do we sustain a peace-time economy while Europe rearms?” The answer, he suggested, lay in January’s tax cuts, family benefits, and pension bonuses—policies anchoring Hungary’s “peace-time economy”. This, he added, included doubling the tax credit for children, lifelong tax exemption for mothers, the 14th month pension, an 11 percent minimum wage increase, and tax cuts for small entrepreneurs. He said that establishing a peace economy took 6-7 months, but the work had now started, and most of the measures would come into effect from Jan 1.
Acknowledging risks such as Germany’s shift to a war-footing and Hungary’s dependence EU markets, Orbán outlined Hungary’s strategy on “economic neutrality” to continue diversifying trade beyond Europe. “If we fail to find new markets, our growth will stall,” he warned. “But we’ve begun the work.”
The prime minister noted that Western unity once allowed countries to be “ostracised for political or ideological reasons”, but this era, he declared, was over.
Peace with Russia even without Europe
Orbán argued that if the US reached a detente with Russia and lifted sanctions, Hungary could expand trade and energy purchases in the Russian market.
“The key question for 2026 is whether the US will pursue peace with Russia, even without Europe,” he said, reaffirming Hungary’s ability to remain neutral “even against the entire Western world or Brussels if necessary”.
While Europe, he insisted, had “chosen war”, with EU Council meetings now resembling “war councils”, Hungary’s goal was not detachment from the West but “rational decision-making in Brussels and NATO”.
“We don’t want to leave the Western alliance; instead, we want it to be led by common sense,” he said. The challenge, Orbán added, was to ensure “pro-peace forces gain the upper hand in Brussels”, a struggle that motivated the creation of the Patriots in Europe.
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“The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” – V. Putin 2005. “He never had any illusions about peace and co-operation with the West, while Western leaders convinced themselves that they were building productive relationships with Russia. Mr. Putin was always engaged in an adversarial quest, to restore Soviet power and remake the global order, to revive the existential conflict of the Cold War. Except this time, Russia would win. Putin was confirmed in his belief that he could act with impunity on the global stage, carrying out acts of mass violence and destruction in pursuit of his agenda. As long as he could manipulate streams of money, he could secure the political outcomes he wanted. Both individuals (former German chancellor Gerhard Schröder and former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, to name but two) and extreme political parties on the right and left (the National Front in France, the Left Party in Germany), were readily available for purchase, and purchased they were. Corruption, not oil or gas, has always been Russia’s most profitable export under Mr. Putin.” Garry Kasparov.
This applies 100% to Hungary and Fidesz.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-moment-that-set-the-vector-for-vladimir-putins-presidency-going/
If Putin always wanted to restore the Sovijet Union, why did he wait for America to orchestrate a coup’deta in Ukraine to install a puppet government to strike?
A non-aligned Ukraine without Western support would’ve been an easier target.
Also, if Putin wants the USSR back, why did his troops leave Kazahstan, after he helped to put out the other USA orchestrated coup there?
Wouldn’t it be easier to grab Kazahstan, if his forces are already there, and a coup is already ongoing?
Your arguments have more holes in them then a sieve.
And everyone who has at least minimal information about current geopolitics finds them glaringly obvious.
““The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century.” – V. Putin 2005.
I agree with Vladimir Putin that is was a catastrophe – as untold tens of millions suffered in the 1990s.
It also it, in part, why we have a war today – in the Ukraine – because The Western Elite think they can just beat Russia up any old time they want.
I respectfully disagree with President Putin that it was the worst catastrophe – as that has to belong to either Stalinist Russia or Maoist China – both of which are directly responsible for the incalculable repression and bloody murder of tens of millions of their own citizens.
Your account of Vladimir Putin, Dear Larry, is so heavily edited and skewed that the casual reader might come up with the idea that Putin is a bloodthirsty dictator whom Russians hate.
To be clear, 15-18% of Russian do hate Putin, because they want Russia to be a nation like the current Germany and France.
However, ‘V. Putin’ allows people whatever faith they wish and sexual pleasures they desire – BUT … there is no secularization of Orthodox Russia, nor is the LGBTQ allowed to sexualize children.
That said, St. Petersburg is regarded by gays, along with Tel Aviv, as the premier gay town in the world.
Before the war, however, Putin maintained a steady 53-58% approval rating. Since the war, it has been in the 77-82% range.
Why do so many Russians like him?
Because Russia was seized in the 1990s by the Rothschild Conglomerate, with the help of Russian Jews, like Boris Berezov. With Rothschild & Gang running the Russian economy in the 1990s, and pirating out so much money, untold millions of Russians were left to starve and freeze in their apartment flats.
Grandmothers were peddling their wares on the street and selling cocaine. The Military was unpaid. Public transportation came to a halt.
The country was an unmitigated disaster.
Putin, appointed by President Bill Clinton, on the recommendation of then Russian president Boris Yeltsin (a CIA puppet) immediately confiscated those assets stolen by Rothschild, and put on trial those oligarch which had aided the destruction or Russia.
‘V. Putin’, as you like to say, is the modern day George Washington-Arpad of his country.
Oh, and yes, Putin rebuilt Christendom in Russia – the number of functioning churches, when he took power being a few thousand. Today that number is over 30,000!
‘V. Putin’, as you like to say, is the better leader of any country, at this time in history.
I Wish we had him in the U.S.
I wouldn’t hear such spportive points of Putin from someone but Russian spy or robot.
well done Mouton. Show yourself more and more.
The media never asks the hard questions….how all his friends and son in law became billionairs? how could he build such a mention to himself with his paycheck as PM?
Why is a KM of road costs 3 times more then in germany?
And meny more questions like these.