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Last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán met with his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, and Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s League, in Budapest to discuss closer cooperation between their parties. “Europe is at a crossroads; it has lost its roots, and we want to help it rebuild those roots”, said Morawiecki, on behalf of Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s Law and Justice (PiS) party.
All of them have good reasons to combine their powers. Orbán faces a parliamentary election next year against a mobilised opposition. He needs to be able to show that the recent departure of his party, Fidesz, from the European People’s Party (EPP) is a new opening – rather than the beginning of the end. Salvini would be happy to escape the embrace of Rassemblement National leader Marine Le Pen in the Identity and Democracy group, which is becoming particularly uncomfortable now that his party supports the government of Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi. And Kaczynski is keen not just
Christian Democrats are currently not properly represented in European politics “so we are making efforts to have their voices heard”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with Matteo Salvini, the head of Italy’s right-wing ruling party Lega, and Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Budapest on Thursday.
Orbán, who is also the head of ruling Fidesz, said that they had discussed the most important issues for their respective countries and concluded that there were no topics where a consensus could not be reached or where the interests of their nations conflicted.
Orbán said they had agreed to get involved in the debates about the future of Europe and prepare a programme to this effect in the next few weeks. “The debate will be a good opportunity to promote and strengthen our values in Europe,” he said.
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