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Péter Magyar won the Hungarian parliamentary elections by a landslide, and Viktor Orbán is stepping down as prime minister after fifteen years. For Andrej Babiš, this means the loss of a key ally. Martin Vokálek, Executive Director of EUROPEUM Institute and Head of the Brussels Office, commented on the future of these relations for update eu.
22. April 2026
It is not just that he is losing a key ally in the European Council and the Patriots are losing their most prominent figure, but also about a broader political signal. At the same time, it confirms a certain structural weakness of this movement: at the European level, it functions as a cohesive bloc only to a limited extent and often with difficulty, because individual politicians frequently pursue primarily their own, narrowly defined national interests.
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