{"id":449993,"date":"2026-04-10T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/10\/ungheria-77-permanenza-ue\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T16:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:16:53","slug":"77-per-cent-of-hungarians-are-in-favour-of-remaining-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/10\/77-per-cent-of-hungarians-are-in-favour-of-remaining-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"77 per cent of Hungarians are in favour of remaining in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Despite the confrontational rhetoric adopted by Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong> towards Brussels, 77 per cent of Hungarian citizens<\/strong> believe that their country should remain within the European Union<\/strong> and still hold a positive view of the EU institutions. This is the finding of the  recent survey <\/a>by the think tank European Council on Foreign Relations<\/strong> (ECFR), which polled Hungarian voters ahead of the upcoming elections <\/strong><\/span>on a range of issues related<\/span> to their views on the EU and Budapest\u2019s international standing. <\/p>\n

According to the survey, remaining in the EU is “strongly”<\/strong> supported<\/strong> by 52 per cent<\/strong> of respondents, while a further 25 per cent<\/strong> support it “fairly<\/strong>“. Only 12 per cent<\/strong> of the sample would favour a Hungarian-style Brexit<\/strong>, with 4 per cent<\/strong> being strongly<\/strong> opposed to remaining in the Union and 8 per cent<\/strong> being somewhat<\/strong> opposed. <\/p>\n

Looking at the percentages of voters for each party, 83 per cent<\/strong> of those who say they will vote for TISZA<\/strong>\u2014the pro-European centre-right party led by
\nP\u00e9ter Magyar<\/a>\u2014describe themselves as strong supporters<\/strong> of Budapest\u2019s membership of the EU institutions, alongside 11 per cent<\/strong> who somewhat support<\/strong> this choice. Only 4 per cent<\/strong> of Magyar\u2019s supporters, however, say they do not approve<\/strong> of remaining in the EU (2 per cent are somewhat opposed, whilst another 2 per cent are strongly opposed). Among Orb\u00e1n\u2019s voters, pro-European sentiment is predictably less widespread, but does not mirror the Prime Minister\u2019s openly hostile attitude towards Brussels. 65 per cent of Fidesz voters<\/strong>, the political party founded by Orb\u00e1n, are in favour<\/strong> of Budapest\u2019s membership of the EU, with those who somewhat<\/strong> support this decision (34 per cent<\/strong>) narrowly outnumbering those who strongly<\/strong> support it (31 per cent<\/strong>). Eurosceptics<\/strong>, therefore, are a minority even among the Hungarian leader\u2019s loyalists, accounting for only 28 per cent<\/strong> of his electorate (19 per cent<\/strong> are somewhat opposed<\/strong> to remaining in Europe and 8 per cent<\/strong> are strongly<\/strong> opposed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to a survey by the ECFR think tank, pro-European sentiment is prevalent among Magyar voters (83 per cent). However, 65 per cent of supporters of the outgoing prime minister and re-election candidate, Orb\u00e1n, also say they want to remain in the EU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7899,"featured_media":449982,"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":[25681],"tags":[33657,33733,28467,33728,26023,33734],"class_list":["post-449993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-elezioni-in-ungheria","tag-europeismo","tag-euroscepticism-en","tag-magyar","tag-orban-en","tag-sondaggio-ungheria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449993","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=449993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449994,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449993\/revisions\/449994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/449982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}