Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, standing next to Alice Weidel, co-chair of Germany’s hard-right AfD, at a joint press conference in Budapsest has said he had invited her because “we wanted to see a brave woman who is a political leader and a freedom fighter”.
“The AfD is not a party whose leader is welcomed by prime ministers in every European country but it is time to change that,” he said on February 12.
In Germany, mainstream political parties have built a “firewall” around the AfD to block any co-operation in government. That came despite AfD showing support of 20 per cent at national level, which puts it second to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the run-up to the national elections on February 23.
Until now, Orbán said, there was a “very real obstacle” to Hungary’s relationship with AfD and that was: “Is it in Hungary’s key interest to have good relations with the German Government?”
That was why, he said, he was “wary of the AfD before but I thought that everything would change now … it was obvious that the AfD was the future”.
The moment had come, he said, when “no one, including the German Government, can punish the relationship with the AfD in the dimension of interstate relations. That’s how much support the AfD has”.
Weidel said, following her discussions with Orbán on Europe: “Europe doesn’t have a leader, it doesn’t have leadership.”
She continued: “In the current situation, when Donald Trump has indeed come on the scene as the new President of the United States, it would be very important for Europe to have someone who can actually sit down at the negotiating table but there is no such person in Europe because it’s such a bureaucratic business.
“The US has no contact person and the strong countries – Germany and France – are strong because of their size and their population, but they don’t have leaders either.
“Our country, Germany, has become weak. It has become a weak country with weak leadership,” Weidel continued.
“The country’s economic policy is also weak. We have had our energy policy backbone destroyed by a completely misguided green policy started by Angela Merkel, and Angela Merkel has destroyed our country.”
As for the European Union, Weidel said Europe had to build “strong, self-aware” nations: “This can be achieved by reducing the competences of the European Union. We need to dismantle the whole expensive bureaucratic and, in my opinion, corrupt structure,” she said.
The leadership of the EU, she said, “is not a committee chosen by the voters, it is not [European Commission President Ursula] von der Leyen, she is not elected yet, so it is not the voters who have elected her. Competence, sovereignty, decisions should really be taken in elected national parliaments”.
Orbán replied: “I am convinced that Europe is in very big trouble, the European Union is in very big trouble.
“The problem is that the economic policy being pursued in Brussels today condemns us to defeat in the face of our global economic rivals.
“Migration has an economic impact, and that too must be changed, but the most important thing is to admit that the green deal is dead.
“It cannot be reformed, it cannot be rejuvenated, it cannot be reformulated, it simply has to be forgotten,” said Orbán.
The AfD has, until now, been considered extreme even by the European Parliament’s right-wing, with parties such as France’s National Rally refusing to sit in the same group in the Strasbourg-based assembly.
Industry has also put pressure on political parties across the EU to distance themselves from the AfD.
Weidel and her party have, on the other hand, received strong support from US tech billionaire Elon Musk, who has been given a key role in the new Trump administration.
https://brusselssignal.eu/2025/02/hungarys-orban-calls-germanys-weidel-a-brave-freedom-fighter
Weidel est une sournoise qui plus est , une déviante comportementale … Bref , l’afd est une foutaise pour enfumer les gogos mais surtout tromper les Authentique Allemands !