PM Orbán warns: war in Europe is “expected” – only Fidesz can keep Hungary out of the coming storm

In a chilling late-night interview on commercial broadcaster TV2 on Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned that Hungary’s 2026 parliamentary election might be the final vote before an “expected” war erupts. He slammed the opposition Tisza party as pro-war puppets of the European People’s Party (EPP), which he claims is hell-bent on gearing Europe up for conflict with Russia by 2030. Only his Fidesz party, Orbán insisted, stands firmly for peace. Come election day, Hungary faces a stark choice: war or peace.

Orbán: Threat of war not over

“While we will have a Christmas free of war, the threat is not over,” Orbán said. He added that though the European Union had refrained from using frozen Russian assets “the directions in Brussels have not changed”. The EU, with the exception of Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia, is still “moving towards war,” he said referring to the EU’s majority decision of taking out a loan and granting Ukraine 90 billion euros for the next two years.

Dubious loan

“We know that the money we are lending to Ukraine will never return,” the prime minister said, and suggested that in the end EU member states would have to repay the debt. “The question was who would guarantee repayment … that was when the Slovaks, Czechs and Hungarians said that they would not participate,” he said.

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“We will not use a single tax forint of our taxpayers for such a dubious loan transaction … we will stay out, while the others are in trouble,” Orbán said, adding that the “Brussels manoeuvre” would have cost Hungarian families 400 billion forints”.

Orbán: We want Hungary to be great and rich

“We want Hungary to be great and to have a reason for self-esteem and glory; we are a respectable, great nation and it should be made clear for the whole world,” Orbán said in an interview to commercial TV2 late on Monday.

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The prime minister said economic success was a goal which would also make Hungarian families richer. “Hungarian families should be well-off,” he said, adding that it was his commitment.

Working to meet that goal, the government “had to remove a number of taboos” and introduce a new tax system focusing on families, “send the International Monetary Fund home”, and redistribute the public burden involving international companies, Orban said, but added that “still there is a lot to do before we can say that the Hungarian nation is made up of well-to-do families.”

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