Politics Country January 22, 2025

Orban Predicts Political Shift in Europe Due to Trump

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stated that Donald Trump's presidency will ignite a second wave of right-wing political changes across Europe, aiming to 'occupy' Brussels.


Orban Predicts Political Shift in Europe Due to Trump

Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, stated on Monday that Donald Trump's presidency in the United States will trigger a wave of far-right political movements in Europe.

Orban said yesterday that Donald Trump's presidency in the USA will initiate a wave of far-right political movements in Europe, calling this incursion "found under the authority of" Brussels. Orban delivered a speech at a conference where he said: "In a few hours, the sun will rise in Brussels, and a new US president, a major faction of nationalists in Brussels, will be in great admiration." "This might just start a major onslaught, and in this way the second stage of the offensive, directed at the discovery under the authority of Brussels, will be launched."

Reactions in Europe to the second term of American leader Donald Trump were varied. At the time, French Prime Minister François Piyer suggested that France and the Eurozone could be "destroyed" due to Trump's declared policies unless preventive actions are taken, the Prime Minister of Hungary stated that Trump's presidency in the United States will allow for the initiation of a wave of far-right political movements in Europe, declaring the incursion "found under the authority of" Brussels. Piyer added that "the United States has decided to advance with a policy of hegemonic non-reciprocal means through the dollar, through industrial policy, through the seizure of all research and investments." "If we do nothing,..."