{"id":56694,"date":"2026-04-07T13:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:24:06","slug":"jd-vance-slams-brussels-bureaucrats-for-meddling-in-hungary-before-election-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/56694\/","title":{"rendered":"JD Vance slams Brussels \u2018bureaucrats\u2019 for meddling in Hungary before election \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While arguing Orb\u00e1n was a model of leadership for Europe more widely, Vance said: \u201cViktor Orb\u00e1n has been the single sound leader in Europe on the question of energy security and independence. It is funny to watch prime ministers and leaders in some of the Western European capitals talk about the energy crisis, when, frankly, they should have been following the policies of Viktor Orb\u00e1n in Hungary, and if they had, the energy crisis that they were experiencing would be a lot less bad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those remarks refer to Orb\u00e1n\u2019s insistence that Hungary should be allowed to continue to import discounted energy from Russia, rather than cutting those supplies to support Ukraine.  <\/p>\n<p>Trump has previously praised Orb\u00e1n as \u201cone of the strongest\u201d world leaders, and the Hungarian prime minister anticipated MAGA\u2019s obsessions more than a decade ago with his assertive nationalism, his contempt for the EU, and his success in asserting influence over Hungary\u2019s media and public institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. vice president\u2019s trip, however, appears <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/last-throw-of-maga-dice-for-viktor-orban-jd-vance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unlikely to swing an increasingly bitter race<\/a> in which Orban is trailing on average by a significant margin, according to pollsters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His rivals attribute their lead in the polls to their laser-focused attacks on the weakness of the Hungarian economy, and on the corruption and cronyism associated with Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerceptions of the current U.S. administration have been turning more negative in Hungary,\u201d said Mario Bikarski, an analyst at risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.\u00a0\u201cVance\u2019s visit could have the opposite effect on Orb\u00e1n\u2019s popularity than the one intended.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While arguing Orb\u00e1n was a model of leadership for Europe more widely, Vance said: \u201cViktor Orb\u00e1n has been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,5902,624,425,184,4930,16895,814,17709,877,7779,3269,3039,3040,3504,651,4580,2433,6552,238,2276,241,76,4038,3399],"class_list":["post-56694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-belgium","tag-brussels","tag-corruption","tag-crisis","tag-democracy","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-energy","tag-energy-crisis","tag-energy-security","tag-hungarian-elections-2026","tag-hungarian-politics","tag-hungary","tag-imports","tag-intelligence","tag-jd-vance","tag-kremlin","tag-media","tag-peter-magyar","tag-russia","tag-security","tag-ukraine","tag-united-states","tag-viktor-orban","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116363648605998022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}