Nick Thorpe
Central Europe correspondent
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Hungarian Victor Orban described President Trump as “the Serum of True”
It was a big week in Europe for CPAC, the US conservative political action conference with large gatherings in Poland and Hungary.
Timing is important ahead of Sunday’s spills of Polish presidential election between CPAC-backed nationalist Karol Naulocky and the liberal mayor of Warsaw Rafal Truzaskovsky, whom CPAC speakers describe as “the battle for western civilization.”
Traditionally a meeting place for American conservative activists, CPAC’s visibility has soared back to the White House to the indisputable domination of Republicans with Donald Trump and his Maga (making America great again) movement.
“This is not a gathering of defeats, it is a gathering of those who have endured,” Hungarian national prime minister Victor Orban told the opening session held in Budapest on Thursday.
Orban, who described President Trump as a “true serum,” emphasized the new vision of Europe that he calls “the era of patriots.”
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German far-right AFD Alice Weidel was in the speaker
In the turbulent applause, he and other speakers rode the European Union’s green deal, appealing for mass immigration and “gender and awakening.”
In a parliamentary hall filled with hosts of disco music, flashlights, video clips and celebrity shows, older politicians were sometimes fascinated by all the Razamatats.
“Europeans don’t feel safe in their towns, homes, or countries,” Orban said. “They are strangers in their homes. This is not a consolidation, it’s a population alternative.”
This was a theme that reflected Alice Weidel, a guest at the German far-right AFD and Dutch Liberal Party Geert Wilders.
This was a move to reconstruct the entire European project with its own brand of conservatism, abandoning old EU liberalism.
Other speakers included Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico and leader of Austrian Freedom Party Herbert Kickle.
The former British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, was here too. With former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, former Poles and Czech Prime Ministers Mateus Morawiekki and Andregi Bavis, along with an array of influential Republicans and South American politicians.
There was also a representative from Rajendra Modi’s BJP, Ram Madhav.
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In Warsaw, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem revealed who he supported in the Polish presidential election
In Warsaw on Tuesday, and in Budapest, speakers argued what one of them called the “International Nationalist Movement, a global platform for anti-globalist forces.”
“Unlike the US CPAC, CPAC Hungary appears to have more intelligent substances. It also serves as an opportunity for nationalists and populist politicians and activists to come together and network.”
“Victor Orban’s promise to make Budapest an intellectual capital for oppositional European conservatism has come true.”
Orban enjoys its “opposition” theme, but more mainstream European conservatives like Germany’s new prime minister, Friedrich Merz, keep their distance.
This week in Hungary and Poland, it was meant that the Trump administration was here to repay the support Donald Trump received from European nationalist leaders in his victory last November.
“If we elect a leader to work with President Trump, the Polish people will have a strong ally,” Trump’s Homeland Security Director Christie Noem told the Warsaw CPAC Conference.
“You will continue to have the presence of the US military here…and you have American-made equipment, of high quality.”
She didn’t say what would happen if Karol Nowrocky didn’t win on Sunday.
The European Maga movement has been translated into mega by Victor Orban (making Europe great again), but sounds confident, but has now endured a set-up with Nixor Dan, the liberal mayor of Bucharest, who won the Romanian presidential election.
In Albania, Democratic Magazine support leader Sari Belisha lost this month’s parliamentary election to socialist Eddie Rama. Former Trump campaign strategist Chris Lacivita supported the Belisha campaign.
And in Austria, the hope of Herbert Kickle as prime minister was shattered by the formation of a new left and right coalition, which instead chose the Christian stocker of the Austrian People’s Party.
The throne also wobbles under Victor Orban, the organizer of the conference in Budapest.
Has his message been so refreshing to the ears of his American worshipers and become old for the Hungarians?
“If Nowrocky doesn’t win in Poland, Hungary will then lose power,” warned George Simion, a Romanian nationalist whose Nixon Dan had lost. Hungary’s next parliamentary election is scheduled for April next year.
There are also cracks in the façade of unity.
Ukraine and Russia are still sources of division. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was prominent in her absence.
And this week there was bad news for Victor Orban – Hungary’s fertility rate fell to 1.28 in April. Despite 15 years of taxes and home building incentives, it was almost as low as he came to power in 2010.
However, as chairs were packed into the Parliamentary Hall in Budapest on Friday evening, there was an eye-trained uplift in Poland.
