PM Orbán talked to the French TF1 TV channel about Jacques Delors

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary was grateful to Jacques Delors “for what he did for us”, after attending the funeral service of the former European Commission president in Paris on Friday.

Orbán was invited to attend the ceremony by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Speaking to French television TF1 on Friday evening, Orbán noted that Delors had paid a visit to communist Hungary in 1989.

He said Hungary had been preparing for a democratic transition and “I was active working in the anti-communist opposition movement; and he [Delors] had the courage to come and visit the country before the first free elections”.

“Therefore we in Hungary remember him as a European leader who fought, or at least tried to do something for the freedom and sovereignty of central European countries under Soviet occupation.”

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Farewell from Jacques Delors, Orbán wrote below his relevant post:

In a video posted on his social media site, he called Delors Hungary’s friend: