For many years, Fidesz has cultivated the image as a party that upholds traditional and religious principles while simultaneously strengthening ties with Hungarians in neighbouring states.
Regardless of the electoral result this weekend in Hungary whether Orbán stays or goes, Poland will as of now stand apart remaking the Central European dynamics. The divergence over Russia’s war on Ukraine is only part of the answer.
The Polish government intends to do nothing on issues where it could do something, despite the fact that at the same time 73 per cent of respondents of a Social Changes poll for the pro-government website wPolityce are in favour of limiting oil and gas imports even at the expense of price increases.
‘Whose side are you on?’ Ukraine’s president Zelenskyy asked Viktor Orbán as he dialled into the EU-US summit in Brussels on Thursday. Vladimir Putin’s was the implication after Hungary once again refused to allow its territory to be used to supply weapons to Ukraine.