War in Ukraine will end, fight against woke won’t, Hungary’s fundamental rights center head says
Though the fight against woke will have to continue, US President Donald Trump has a chance to bring a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, “a kind of peace the Hungarian right has been talking about for a long time”, the head of Hungary’s Center for Fundamental Rights said in his address to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC, on Friday.
Fight against woke continues after peace in Ukraine
“For a wonderful month Donald Trump has been back in the Oval Office; we can finally breathe free again,” the Center for Fundamental Rights cited Miklós Szánthó as saying. “2025 began tremendously,” Szánthó said. “The Trump tsunami swept the Dems out of office, and there is a revival of the right on the old continent led by Prime Minister [Viktor] Orbán and the Patriots for Europe.”
“Until Donald Trump came to your rescue, the United States hadn’t had a strong leader for almost two generations,” he said, adding that the same still applied to Europe. “And the lack of leadership and vision has led to a systematic collapse on an economic, political and security scale,” he said. Szánthó said American aid agency USAID had only been “one of the heads of the woke hydra”. “The left’s geopolitical manipulation machine also operates through Hollywood, Brussels, the UN, the Washington swamp, big media, the Ford, the Gates, the Rockefeller foundations, and of course, George Soros’s Open Society network,” he added.
Trump, Milei, Orbán
He said as long as there were leaders like Trump, Viktor Orbán and Argentinian President Javier Milei, “our civilisation is not lost”. “But in order to cut off every single head of the woke hydra and break the great geopolitical manipulation machine of the left, we must unite our forces,” he said.
“We win so that we can fight for more,” Szánthó said. “Fight for normality … for the family … for political leadership … for national security … and fight for peace.” “We conservatives respect the past, so we should write the future, too,” Szánthó said.
“Life is much more than the struggle for self-preservation,” he said. “And what makes it more is precisely what makes it truly beautiful and meaningful to us: our families, our children, our dignity, our freedom, our faith and our country… That is what CPAC and CPAC Hungary is all about.”
Hungary’s position in West to strengthen thanks to Trump administration, says PD Orbán
Hungary’s position in the West is expected to strengthen thanks to the new US administration, the prime minister’s political director said in Washington, DC, after attending the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Balázs Orbán said in an interview with MTI that the Trump administration’s “tailwind” was already yielding tangible results.
Talks are under way on strengthening bilateral cooperation, he said. The US government has also stopped supporting liberal and progressive NGOs that had earlier interfered with Hungarian domestic politics, he said. The new US administration also has different priorities on the Ukraine-Russia war, “it does not see the war as a strategically important point for itself and wants to end it as soon as possible.”
The talks between Russia and the US were reducing the threat of escalation, he said. “Those who call for peace but don’t think that the warring sides should communicate don’t actually take the visions of peace seriously,” Orbán said, adding that the peace process was likely to be a difficult one.
After participating at a podium discussion at the conference, Orbán met Vice President J.D. Vance. Regarding the meeting, he highlighted the importance of institutional ties between patriotic forces in the US and Hungary. “It is very important that there is a common ground we can build upon … it feels good to hear US politicians in important positions say very similar things to what Hungary’s government has been saying in the past 15 years.”
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