Wherever one goes in the world, whether to the East or West, discussions revolve around how to prepare for the changes affecting us in various fields—such as new technologies, new power centers, and new resources, Balazs Orban said.

Brussels is an exception to this, because if you go there, you only experience moral lecturing, superiority, and threats, he noted, adding that this sad reality was witnessed during Hungary's rotating presidency of the European Union.
This must change, he said, and Hungary’s successful six-month presidency should serve as a starting point to demonstrate that things can indeed be done differently.
According to the political director, European elites are attempting to use crises to grab more powers. They claim that crises are international in nature, transcending borders, and therefore powers should be transferred to a supranational empire to resolve them. However, what you can see is that instead of policies getting better, they are getting worse, while the powers have been rather badly used, and bad decisions have been made.
Supranational structures are not working, and the EU must be reformed. Member states must reclaim the right to initiate, or the EU will permanently fall behind in the geopolitical competition, Balazs Orban pointed out.
When asked what impact Donald Tump's presidency can have on Brussels, he said that Europe can only be saved by Europeans. European and member state politicians must act differently and steer the EU’s ship in a new direction, though the winds blowing from Washington will matter greatly.
It is a realistic scenario that national conservative forces determined to protect national sovereignty will feel that there is a tailwind rather than a headwind blowing from Washington and they will strengthen. However, political changes, either underway or in preparation in various European capitals, are also essential, he added.
In the context of the friendly talks between Donald Trump and Viktor Orban earlier and the Hungarian prime minister's rapidly organized visit to Beijing, Balazs Orban noted that this is a situation that Hungarian politics has not been in for the past several hundred years. These are foreign policy achievements that can be built upon, enabling agreements to be reached, and to influence the fate of the world in a way that serves the interests of the Hungarian people.