Overview
- At a CPAC-offshoot summit in Budapest on May 30, Alice Weidel praised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a ‘beacon of freedom’ and celebrated his nationalist agenda.
- Orbán hailed Weidel as an example of ‘good Germans’ who prioritize national sovereignty over Brussels and accused the EU of hijacking Hungary’s future.
- Weidel condemned the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution’s classification of the AfD as ‘securely right-wing extremist’ and accused it of attempting to criminalize her party.
- The summit’s lineup included Austria’s FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl, Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico and former German security chief Hans-Georg Maaßen.
- Hungary netted 4–5 billion euros annually from EU funds between 2014 and 2020 but has had billions frozen since 2022 amid rule-of-law disputes with Brussels.