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Matto Salvini and Viktor Orban visited the fence at Hungary's southern border in May (Photo: Balazs Szecsodi/Hungary's Press Office of the Prime Minister)

Orban scores at home, searches for home in Europe

Hungary's ruling right-wing Fidesz party won 52.1 percent of votes in the European election on Sunday (26 May) on a hardline anti-immigration platform - but the lack of a wider populist breakthrough in Europe means prime minister Viktor Orban's party is still searching for a new political alliance in Brussels.

Orban told his Fidesz supporters on Sunday night that he would cooperate with everyone in Europe who wanted to stop immigr...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

Matto Salvini and Viktor Orban visited the fence at Hungary's southern border in May (Photo: Balazs Szecsodi/Hungary's Press Office of the Prime Minister)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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