PM Orbán warns of ‘extra dangerous time’ for Hungary – Here’s why

Hungarians’ interest lies in making friends and maintaining good relations with the major global powers, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview with PragerU published on Wednesday.

Orbán said the two reasons why Hungary was living in an “extra dangerous time” were the war between Russia and Ukraine and Brussels’s aspirations of building “a United States of Europe”.

“Now in Brussels, they would like to build up a United States of Europe. A kind of empire,” Orbán said. “Some countries love it, some countries don’t. We belong to the sovereigntists, we don’t like it. We don’t like the Brusselian centralised bureaucracy … which defines how we have to live here in Hungary. So we are sovereigntists and freedom fighters.”

The prime minister said the war was not being fought just between Ukraine and Russia, but was a “proxy war of the West with Russia”, noting that Hungary is part of the West.

He emphasised that he had a good relationship with US President Donald Trump, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I serve the interests of the country. I would not like to join one bloc of countries,” he said. “I would like to maintain the sovereign room for manoeuvring of our foreign policy and to maintain the national sovereignty of this country.”

Criticising the current state of the European Union and its aspirations, Orbán said the EU should be serving its member states because “the European Union is not about Brussels and the European institutions. The European Union is about the member states, the sovereign member states.”