Europe
Orban Bets on Trump Return to Supercharge EU Disruptor Role
- Hungary’s Orban holds rotating EU presidency through December
- Premier has upset EU allies with self-styled ‘peace mission’
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban offered a vision of a new world order, with backing from China and Donald Trump’s potential return to the White House amplifying his role as a renegade within the European Union. He even teased options outside the bloc.
Addressing supporters at an annual retreat in Baile Tusnad in central Romania on Saturday, Orban touched on familiar tropes about a weak EU core favoring LGBTQ rights and immigration. He compared it with Vladimir Putin’s “rational,” strongly led Russia, an ascendant Asia, and nation states on the EU’s own eastern flank pursuing independent policies.