The ‘illiberal’ prime minister, ally Trump has endorsed this week, will welcome US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday.
Published on February 14, 2026
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says his country should be feared European Union What seems more than Russia when promising to clean away the “repressive mechanism” of the European Union before the parliamentary elections will take place.
In his annual State of the Nation address on Saturday, Orbán vowed to push out “foreign influence that limits our sovereignty with its agents” as the opposition Tisza party maintained an 8 to 12 percentage point lead over Orbán’s ruling Fidesz party eight weeks after the April 12 election.
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“Those who fear (Russian President Vladimir) Putin are primitive and uncaring. BrusselsHowever, it is a clear reality and a source of imminent danger,” said the 62-year-old leader, who likened the European Union to the repressive Soviet regime that dominated Hungary for decades in the last century.
Since coming to power for a second term in 2010, Orbán has launched a campaign against “pseudo-civil unions”, “bought journalists”, judges and politicians in what he calls the “liberal state”.
His crackdown on immigration has provided a blueprint for right-wing leaders like United States President Donald Trump.
‘War or Peace’?
In a speech on Saturday, Orbán signaled that his task of wiping out liberal forces from the country was only “half done”, saying that Trump, who backed him to win the upcoming vote, “rebelled against the global business, media and political network of liberals, which also improved our chances”.
Trump posted a new one on Friday Support Orbán said on his Truth social platform that he is “a truly strong and powerful leader with a proven track record of delivering extraordinary results”.
The US President’s comments come as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio prepares to visit Hungary on Sunday. Rubio will leave the Munich Security Conference in Germany, stopping in Slovakia to hold talks with nationalist Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Orban, who has farmed Warm relationship Putin’s current term in power, which this week cast April elections as a stark choice between “war or peace”, warned in a Facebook post that Peter Magyar’s Tisza party would drag the country into the next domestic conflict. Ukraine.
The Prime Minister has doubled down on his policy of portraying Magyar as a “Brussels puppet” and “for money for Ukraine!” There are billboards saying “yes” to this demand. From Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission.