(27 Jul 2024)
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Baile Tusnad, Romania – 27 July 2024
1. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán arriving on stage at Tusvanyos Summer University platform
2. Wide of crowds in front of stage
3. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“Europe’s own politics has collapsed, they only follow the wish of the Democrats of the US."
4. Mid shot of crowd
5. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“The West thinks that there is no need for nation-states, immigration helps them in this ideology, it’s absurdity."
6. Wide of crowds
7. SOUNDBITE (Hungarian) Viktor Orban, Hungarian Prime Minister:
“Donald Trump wants to rebuild the nation-state, that’s why they want to imprison him, take his wealth away, and that’s why they wanted even to murder him.”
8. Wide of crowds
9. Orban posing and leaving
STORYLINE:
Hungary’s nationalist prime minister on Saturday said the European Union was sliding toward oblivion in a rambling anti-Western speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order” and threw his backing behind Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential bid.
“Europe’s own politics has collapsed, they only follow the wish of the Democrats of the US,” Viktor Orban said in Baile Tusnad, a majority-ethnic Hungarian town in central Romania.
Orbán also alleged that the U.S. was behind the 2022 explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines built to carry gas from Russia to Germany. He didn’t offer any evidence to back up the claim.
The far-right leader’s remarks come amid growing criticism from his European partners after he embarked on rogue “peace mission” trips to Moscow and Beijing earlier this month aimed at brokering an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Orbán is widely considered to have the warmest relations with the Kremlin among all EU leaders.
Throughout Russia’s full-scale war in Ukraine, Orbán has broken with other EU leaders by refusing to provide Kyiv with weapons to defend against Russian forces and has routinely delayed, watered down, or blocked efforts to send financial aid to Kyiv and impose sanctions on Moscow.
Orbán typically uses the annual Tusvanyos Summer University platform in Romania to indicate the ideological direction of his national government and to deride the standards of the EU bloc, which Hungary joined in 2004.
Hungary currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, during which Orbán has made a Trumpian vow to “Make Europe Great Again” and has openly endorsed Trump’s candidacy in this year’s U.S. presidential election.
Orbán visited Trump twice this year at the former president’s beachside compound in Mar-a-Lago.
“Donald Trump wants to rebuild the nation-state, that’s why they want to imprison him, take his wealth away, and that’s why they wanted even to murder him," Orbán said, referring to an assassination attempt on Trump at a Pennsylvania rally this month.
The EU’s longest-serving leader, Orbán has become an icon to some conservative populists for his firm opposition to immigration and LGBTQ+ rights.
He has also cracked down on the press and judiciary in Hungary and been accused by the EU of violating rule-of-law and democracy standards.
AP video by Nicolae Dumitrache
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