Orban's Victory Hailed in Some Unlikely Places as Warning for EU
- Horst Seehofer raps EU’s ‘policy of arrogance and paternalism’
- Merkel offers to move forward on European, bilateral agenda
Orban's Hungary Win Seen Compounding Global Uncertainty
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A German cabinet minister and Italy’s would-be prime minister were among those to hail Hungarian premier Viktor Orban’s massive election win as a welcome shot across the bows of what they said was an arrogant European Union.
“I’m pleased with the election victory, it’s once again a very clear win for Viktor Orban,” Horst Seehofer, German federal interior minister, told reporters in Munich. He fired a volley at the EU to stop lecturing the Hungarian government over its shift to the right, adding: “I’ve always thought that this policy of arrogance and paternalism with respect to other member states is wrong.”