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At the Élysée on Monday, the Hungarian Prime Minister returned to his conflict with Brussels. Which isolates him in Europe as much as it strengthens him in his country. Reporting.
By Charles Sapin
Vikto Orban, Ukrainian Prime Minister and leader of the Fidesz party, today sets himself up as the leader of the “peace party” on a European scale.© ATTILA KISBENEDEK / AFP
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UA cohort of Hungarian flags stands like a tricolor wall, which no star-spangled banner has dared to mix and match. The scenography of this twenty-second address on the state of the nation on February 18 reinforces, this year more than any other, the angry words of the strong man of the Magyar Republic. On the banks of the Danube, in front of an audience of elected officials and faithful gathered in the bazaar of Buda Castle, Viktor Orban grants himself as much satisfaction as he hammers the differences that oppose him to his partners in the European Union: “Russia attacked Ukraine, so we have an obligation to welcome Ukrainian refugees. But we also see that, in the Ukrainian war, it is not the armies of good and evil, but the troops of two Slavic countries that are engaged…