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Viktor Orban is a vice-president of the European Peoples' Party (Photo: europeanpeoplesparty)

Viktor Orban - disliked and misunderstood

During his first press conference after winning the the 2010 Parliamentary vote, Viktor Orban noted that "88 percent of the vote at this election went to pro-EU parties and only 12 percent to an anti-European party" - he didn't even mention their name, the far-right Jobbik - Movement for a Better Hungary.

"Viktor Orban has always been strongly pro European Union," says Ferenc Kumin, lead analyst of Szazadveg, a centre-right think tank, "though this is often forgotten nowadays." Last Sat...

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The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author’s, not those of EUobserver
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