BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The real threat facing Hungary is not Russia but the European Union, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a speech to supporters on Saturday, as his nationalist party ramps up an anti-EU campaign ahead of national elections.

  • CAVOK@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    A city guide I met in Budapest a few years back gave me a brief history lesson about Hungary.

    “If there’s a right and a wrong choice, Hungary will chose wrong.”

    History backs her up.

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      12 hours ago

      I once heard “they will eventually do the right thing … after trying all the wrong options”. I think it was about the US or EU though.

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        8 hours ago

        It’s a famous quote of Churchill about USA during WW2. Unfortunately he never actually said that, but he said something similar.