PM Orbán: 2024 is the Year To ‘Make Europe Great Again’
EuropeanconservativeFeb 15
The Facts
During a national holiday speech in Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told the crowd that if they want "to preserve Hungary’s freedom and sovereignty," they have to "occupy Brussels" in this summer's EU elections.
Orban also contrasted Hungary and the "Western world," alleging that those in charge of the latter "start wars, destroy worlds, redraw countries’ borders, and graze on everything like locusts."
The Spin
Right narrative
Viktor Orban sees the political winds shifting in Europe and America, so he wants to capitalize on his country's six-month presidency at the EU Council — as well as the likely re-election of Donald Trump in the US — and 'make the West great again.' Europe last year was run by warmongers and climate alarmists who turned Europe into an anti-middle-class, anti-farmer, and anti-peace continent focused on flooding their respective countries with migrants as the quality of life of their current citizens deteriorated. Orban speaks for the regular people, not the elites in Brussels.
Left narrative
Orban is an autocrat who has put his self-interests above that of his own people and Europe as a whole. Throughout his career, he has accused Brussels of corruption while simultaneously gutting Hungary's press and political freedoms. Orban and his fellow European right-wing extremists certainly have a chance of gaining power this year, but they won't use that power for good. However optimistic he is for his side, though, Orban has virtually no allies in other European governments — especially now that Poland has voted its far-right regime out of office.
Nerd narrative
There's a 1% chance that the ECR coalition will hold the most seats after the 2024 European Parliament elections, according to the Metaculus prediction community.