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Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received members of the European Conservatives Group and Democratic Alliance (EC/DA) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe at his office at the Carmelite Monastery on Friday.
The representatives gathered in Hungary for a seminar organized by the group in Budapest. This is the first time the group has organized an official event abroad since the end of Covid-19, and the fact that Budapest was the venue was an important sign.
The event was held over two days, with cultural programs and panel discussions on topics such as the challenges facing traditional European families, the future of Europe and conservative parties, and migration.
On Friday, the Hungarian Prime Minister also held a meeting with Santiago Abascal, president of the Spanish Vox party, at the Carmelite monastery. Viktor Orbán stressed after the talks that European politics needs people who still have energy, commitment, and passion.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (R) and Spanish politician Santiago Abascal. Photo: MTI/Miniszterelnöki Sajtóiroda/Benko Vivien Cher
According to the prime minister, European politics is increasingly just meaningless talk, repeating things that “we do not even know what they mean any more,” and in the end come to “no action.” Meanwhile, Europe continues to lose competitiveness. He added that
like-minded people should work together, and indicated that in the meeting with Santiago Abascal they had reaffirmed their commitment to cooperation between Hungarian governing party Fidesz and Vox.
“We would like to see a turn to the right in Europe,” the prime minister emphasized.
¡Köszönöm Viktor! https://t.co/hsRoEjAZUv
— Santiago Abascal (@Santi_ABASCAL) June 2, 2023
Orbán described Vox as a party that loves its country and wants to stand by it, and which values traditional values, family, and history, on which they can build the future.
After the meeting, Abascal reaffirmed the need to work with those who are fighting for a much stronger Europe. He stressed his deep condemnation of the persecution and blackmail that Brussels is carrying out against Hungary. According to him, ideological discrimination is the real threat to European unity, and it could set a precedent. Today it is the turn of Hungary and Poland, but at any moment other countries could be put in the spotlight by Brussels bureaucrats, he said.
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