Meloni and Eurosceptics Want to Enlist Orban — for a Price

Fidesz could join European Conservatives and Reformists group
Meloni met with the Hungarian leader on sidelines of EU summit

Giorgia Meloni and Viktor Orban at an EU summit on March 23, 2023. Photographer: Valeria Mongelli/Bloomberg

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By Chiara Albanese, Zoltan Simon, and Natalia Ojewska

February 10, 2024 at 7:00 AM UTC

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February 10, 2024 at 12:05 PM UTC

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Some of the continent’s top right-wing politicians including Italy’s Giorgia Meloni are seeking to bring Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban into their political family, in a bid to reshape their pan-European party into a legitimate force in Brussels.