At the opening of CPAC Hungary 2025 in Budapest, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán launched his vision for “making Europe great again”. With a four-point “patriot plan”, he wants to restore peace, sovereignty, freedom, and security in Europe.
Orbán also pointed out that an organized and systematic population replacement is underway in Europe – and that Europeans today have become strangers in their own cities and communities.
CPAC Hungary is the Central European edition of the American Conservative Political Action Conference, where right-wing politicians, strategists, and opinion leaders gather.
– This is not a gathering of the defeated, but of those who have endured, Orbán said, praising leaders who, according to him, have withstood political storms and directing harsh criticism at liberal and socialist politicians, whom he accused of weakness:
– They cry at the first sign of criticism and hide behind progressive journalists
“Stolen the European dream”
Orbán contrasted his vision with what he called a liberal plan for a post-Christian, post-national Europe, characterized by war, mass migration, and increased central control.
– Brussels has stolen the European dream, he warned, accusing the EU’s left-wing elite of replacing national identity with bureaucratic control.
Orbán’s program is based on four fundamental principles:
- Peace: “We don’t want the Eastern front”, he said, rejecting Ukraine’s EU membership.
- Sovereignty: Hungary opposes joint debt and the financing of wars in other countries.
- Freedom: Political freedom and freedom of expression must be restored.
- Security: Europe must be protected from mass migration and Europeans must take back their neighborhoods.
“They have destroyed our future”
He also emphasized the importance of local political victories:
– Everyone must return home and win their own battles, he said, highlighting Poland’s upcoming elections as a key issue for Europe’s patriotic movements.
According to the Hungarian leader, the people of Europe dreamed of unity and peace, of a continent where citizens lived in prosperity and security and cooperated with each other – instead of viewing each other as enemies. But today, the grim reality is very different.
– They have destroyed our future. Instead of the European dream, we are receiving a nightmare. Europeans no longer feel safe in their own countries, Orbán stated.
– Not in their own cities. Not on their own streets. They have become strangers in places where, twenty years ago, they felt at home. It’s simple math – their cities are being taken away from them. This is not integration – it is an organized population replacement, he continued.
“Led by lightweights”
The prime minister also pointed out how European companies are going bankrupt, how electricity and gas are becoming more expensive, and how the green transition is killing Europe’s economies.
– It’s slowly becoming a parody, and now, when we should be negotiating trade and tariffs with a heavyweight US president, it turns out that we are led by lightweights”.
Orbán also praised Donald Trump’s return to the White House, which he called “the greatest comeback in the Western world”, and described Trump’s policies as a “truth serum” for peace and stability.
Among other political role models, he mentioned Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who, according to Orbán, “was shot five times and still returned as if nothing had happened”, as well as Andrej Babiš (Czech Republic) and Santiago Abascal (Spain).
“Following our own path”
He also repeatedly criticized the EU political establishment in Brussels, which he accused of wanting to silence dissent.
– The left does not want debate – they want submission, Orbán continued.
The Hungarian leader’s final message was clear:
– The liberal plan leads to a centralized, indebted, war-driven Europe.But Hungarians are a free people – we were born to follow our own
path.
Orbán concluded with a call to Europe’s patriots to take back their continent.
