{"id":449759,"date":"2026-04-08T15:34:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/08\/vance-a-budapest-tra-lodi-a-orban-e-attacchi-allue-dai-burocrati-di-bruxelles-vergognose-interferenze\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:20:07","slug":"vance-in-budapest-praise-for-orban-and-criticism-of-the-eu-shameful-interference-from-brussels-bureaucrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/08\/vance-in-budapest-praise-for-orban-and-criticism-of-the-eu-shameful-interference-from-brussels-bureaucrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance in Budapest: praise for Orb\u00e1n and criticism of the EU: “Shameful interference from Brussels bureaucrats”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 With the polls showing him trailing, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>, is attempting to make up ground ahead of the parliamentary elections on Sunday, 12 April,<\/strong> by capitalising on his close relationship with Donald Trump\u2019s United States<\/strong>. The deputy to the tycoon, J.D. Vance<\/strong>, landed in Budapest <\/a>yesterday morning (7 April) and took part in two separate events alongside the Hungarian leader: first, a press conference<\/strong> at the Government Palace, and subsequently a rally<\/strong> <\/span>to mark \u201cHungarian-American Friendship Day<\/strong>\u201d. Despite repeatedly stating that he did not wish to interfere in the electoral process, instead accusing “European Union bureaucrats<\/strong>” of doing so, Vance clearly reiterated the US government\u2019s support for the outgoing prime minister and re-election candidate<\/strong>, urging his \u201cHungarian friends\u201d to go out and vote \u201cand stand with Viktor Orb\u00e1n because he is on your side.\u201d <\/p>\n

The frontal attack on the EU\u2014the leitmotif of the entire visit by the White House\u2019s number two\u2014began immediately, with Vance\u2019s opening remarks at the press briefing held at the Prime Minister\u2019s offices. \u201cI certainly don\u2019t expect the Hungarian people to listen to the Vice-President of the United States,\u201d he said, \u201cbut I wanted to send a signal to everyone, particularly the bureaucrats in Brussels, who have done everything to keep the Hungarian people in check<\/strong> because they don\u2019t like their leader, who has effectively sided with his people.\u201d Vance described the European attitude towards Budapest as “one of the worst examples of foreign interference in elections<\/strong><\/a> I have ever seen, something truly shameful<\/strong>.” He added: “I will not tell the Hungarian people how to vote <\/strong>and I encourage the bureaucrats in Brussels to do the same”. <\/p>\n

When asked about this, the European Commission<\/strong> responded to Vance\u2019s comments through a spokesperson, noting that “elections are a choice that rests solely with the citizens<\/strong>: together, the Commission and the Member States are building a stronger and more independent Europe.” The Berlaymont building particularly emphasised the commitment, set out in the Digital Services Act<\/a>, to mitigate the risks of online disinformation and protect European democracies: \u201cIn Europe, elections are not a choice made by Big Tech and their algorithms,\u201d explained the spokesperson. <\/p>\n

Incidentally, just seconds after accusing the EU of electoral interference, Vance issued the very call to vote<\/strong> that he had said he wanted to avoid, addressing Hungarian voters and urging them to vote not on the basis of “who is pro- or anti-European, or who is pro- or anti-American, but on the basis of who stands up for the Hungarian people.” <\/p>\n

Orb\u00e1n has also been showered with praise for his stance on the Russian-Ukrainian conflict<\/strong>. \u201cThe two leaders who have done the most to try to stop this destructive conflict are Trump and Orb\u00e1n. They have done so through diplomacy<\/strong>, speaking with the parties, trying to understand what Ukrainians and Russians need to bring the war to an end,\u201d said Vance. \u201cViktor has been better than anyone else at helping us understand what the Ukrainians need and what the Russians need to achieve peace; that is why President Trump asked him about the Budapest summit,\u201d he added, referring to Hungary\u2019s intention\u2014reiterated again yesterday by Orb\u00e1n himself\u2014to host a summit between Washington and Moscow for peace<\/strong>, if and when that moment arrives. <\/p>\n

According to Vance, the Hungarian Prime Minister was also “the only European leader with sound judgement on the issue of energy security and independence<\/strong>” within the European Union. In a further attack on Brussels, Vance remarked that \u201cit is amusing to see prime ministers and leaders in some Western European capitals talking about the energy crisis, when they should have followed Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s policies<\/strong> in Hungary. Had they done so, the energy crisis they are currently experiencing would have been far less severe.\u201d Endorsing the repeated calls<\/b><\/a> by the Hungarian leader on not cutting off Russian gas and oil supplies<\/strong>, Vance described the EU\u2019s decision to phase out energy supplies from Moscow as \u201cthe seeds of the current conflict<\/strong>\u201d which were sown \u201cwell before the fighting began.\u201d For the US Vice-President, “it was a huge mistake<\/strong> then and it is obviously a huge mistake now,” he added. <\/p>\n

In the late afternoon, when Orb\u00e1n and Vance moved to a venue in eastern Budapest to take part in the celebrations for US-Hungarian Friendship Day, President Trump\u2019s direct endorsement<\/strong> also arrived. \u201cOrb\u00e1n is doing a great job: he hasn\u2019t allowed anyone to storm your country and invade it as others have done, ruining their nations,\u201d stated The Donald
\n <\/em>via a live telephone intervention<\/a><\/em>, adding that \u201cif I didn\u2019t think he was doing a good job, I wouldn\u2019t be making a call like this. We are with you all the way.\u201d The Hungarian leader returned the praise: \u201cDonald Trump put an end to the power of the global progressive elite<\/strong> and wrote about how harmful progressive liberalism was when it was not allowed to do so, unleashing forces that had been silenced. With his re-election, relations between the United States and Hungary have entered a golden age<\/strong>,” he noted.<\/p>\n

It was the Prime Minister himself who was given the task of closing the rally with a call for the “Reconquista of Europe<\/strong>“, which must begin “right here in Hungary” and “bring new patriotic governments to power.” And \u201cafter Washington,\u201d Orb\u00e1n declared, \u201cBrussels will also change, transforming it from the headquarters of the progressives into a stronghold of the patriots<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following the accusations levelled at the European Union, it was the US Vice-President himself who urged Hungarians to vote for the outgoing Prime Minister: “Stand with Orb\u00e1n because he is on your side”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7899,"featured_media":449728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25716,25707],"tags":[31856,33657,30418,26023],"class_list":["post-449759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-world-politics","tag-donald-trump-en","tag-elezioni-in-ungheria","tag-jd-vance-en","tag-orban-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449760,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449759\/revisions\/449760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}