While the European Parliament rejected VOX’s proposal to introduce the principle of national preference in the allocation of EU funding, the initiative has elevated the issue to the European level.
Conservative and sovereignist leaders from across Europe gathered in Budapest to call for a shift away from EU centralisation and towards national sovereignty.
With CPAC Hungary set for Saturday and the Patriots’ Grand Assembly in Budapest on Monday, the patriotic bloc is presenting itself as one of the main European centres of political gravity.
Benjamin Netanyahu said the world needs more leaders like the Hungarian prime minister, while Javier Milei said Viktor Orbán has made Hungary a bastion of the Western world in a Europe that is being engulfed by darkness.
