Viktor Orbán is My Hero

The Hungarian Prime Minister is at the vanguard of a new European orientation away from EU authoritarianism and towards national sovereignty.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, on October 9, 2024. [Source: European News Room | Photo: FREDERIK FLORIN / AFP)

Things are starting to get interesting in Europe. In July, Hungary took over the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which is the supreme legislative body of the EU. It is a council made up of the 27 heads of state of the EU member countries. It is the Council that elects (selects) the members of the European Commission (EC).

Prior to the Treaty of Lisbon, the Council was also the supreme Executive body of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty transferred the executive power of the EU to the newly created European Commission and something that is (confusingly) called the European Council.

The Council of the EU is sort of a legislative upper house, but it’s like a US Senate on steroids because of its broad powers to choose who sits in the bloc’s executive branch (i.e., the European Commission).

Orbán’s Presidency, however, was bound to cause friction, as Hungary is on the outs with Brussels because of their laws against foreign agents interference, their ban on gay marriage, etc. as well as their “friendliness” towards Russia. perhaps most of all , Hungary is a pariah because of…