Trump Victory May Be Best for EU, Maverick Hungarian Leader Says
- Orban says Europe has lost its way in huge migrant influx
- Hungarian leader has built a border fence to keep migrants out
Viktor Orban
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A Donald Trump presidency in the U.S. may be the best outcome for Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suggested, going further than any leader in the European Union to back the Republican nominee.
Orban, a maverick leader who has built a barrier on Hungary’s borders to keep migrants out, hailed Trump’s ideas to fight terrorism. Europe was “living in fear” after attacks in Nice, France, and in Munich, and had lost its way trying to cope with its biggest migrant wave since World War II, Orban told an ethnic Hungarian audience in Baile Tusnad, Romania on Saturday.