Balázs Orbán critiques the EU as "Prussian bureaucracy" prioritizing migrants over locals and enforcing destructive green policies, while accusing Ukraine of blackmailing Hungary by halting an oil pipeline despite rising prices. He asserts 80% of Hungarians oppose the war and migration, framing the choice between patriotic sovereignty and liberal "Brussels" control, which he claims uses digital censorship to suppress dissent. Orbán argues Western Europe faces economic collapse, aligns with Trump's vision for American leadership, and seeks cooperation with specific French, German, and Dutch politicians to resist Brussels' overreach while focusing on saving Hungary rather than serving as a continental role model. [Automatically generated summary]
All right, my friend Balash Orban, political director for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as I say every time I interview you, no relation unless there's been a marriage in the family somehow.
First of all, everybody who wasn't here yet should visit the wonderful place, Hungary and Safe.
Exactly, exactly.
And then they can see everything and they can decide themselves.
But what we are doing now is like, so the situation here in Europe is, it's quite hard.
We have a Prussian bureaucracy which is led by progressives and liberals and warmong people who were willing to fight the war against Russia for eternity.
And this is causing serious problems for us.
If you are led by liberals, by progressives, then no one cares about your own people.
They let the migrants in, they push the Vogue ideology, they destroy the economy with the crazy sanctions regimes and with the crazy green transition policies.
And since we have a war in the neighborhood and no one is ready to step in, as it was done by President Trump and try to push a deal, it is destroying the economy.
So we are the Hungarian patriots who are trying to save our people, save our economy, save our nation, not letting migrants in, saving our children from gender propaganda, trying to save the economy and trying to help everyone who is ready to make a peace on the Ukrainian frontline.
Now we are under heavy pressure from the Ukrainians, so that's a serious issue because Ukraine wants all European countries to finance the war.
They're leveraging Brussels who is on the side of Brazilians.
So actually what is happening is right now, Zelensky is threatening and blackmailing Hungary.
They stopped the oil pipeline.
Imagine the situation that these things are going on in the Middle East.
Oil prices are skyrocketing and somebody is stopping the pipeline and trying to create chaos in your country.
So that's not a very friendly move, if I would put it that way.
But we resist.
We were telling them that if they don't reopen the pipeline, we will not support them and we will not let the European Union to give them the loan which is needed.
So there is a fight.
But they want the government change in Hungary.
So the biggest and the strongest response will be that we win the election.
And then they will see that the people of Hungary are behind Viktor Orban.
And then the Brussels and the Ukrainians, they have to step back.
And they have to let Hungary to do what is best for the Hungarian people.
So this is actually a real issue.
I think all economy needs cheap energy.
I mean, every country needs cheap energy.
If you say no to some energy sources in this situation, you are actually not serving the interests of your people.
It can happen that you're serving the interests of some lobbyist groups, but not the interests of your own people.
So there is an energy issue and there is a security issue.
My general sense from being here for the last 48 hours is that people feel that Orban will win the election, but there's some concern that a certain amount of people will be tired.
They're tired of success or they don't even realize how good they have it.
Well, I think most probably it's always the case if you have a government which is in power for like 16 years.
But the question is, what do people think about the major civilizational issues?
And I can see the polls, like 80% of the society wants peace.
They do not support the war.
80% of the society is saying no to migration.
80% of the society wants cheap energy and wants a government which is supporting the families and households and the economy.
So now the political situation in Hungary is very simple.
We have the Patriots and we have the Brazilians.
So either you choose the Brusselian liberals and progressives, the Biden type of people, or you stick to Orban and you keep him and he will keep you safe and sound.
So therefore I think that we will get the mandate.
But we have to work on it very hard and convince every single person that this election will be a decisive one.
And we have to be the majority on the election day, not the day after, not the day before, on that exact day.
Probably it's more hard in some Western European countries than in the United States.
But if you have a strong leadership, a committed leadership, and I see this French and German and Dutch politicians who are here, they seem to be quite determined, which is a good sign.
We just want to save our country, not the entire continent.
But we see that they are Wood-wheeling people, some very talented politicians, and if they are ready to cooperate, we try to do our best and try to help them as much as we can.
But we are very happy to see that somebody from the United States is also not just you and your colleagues, but people from the administration are coming and they are encouraging all those leaders that this is the right thing to do.