Magyar’s victory in Hungary strengthens European unity | EUROtoday

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The festive sq. of Peter Magyar’s supporters on the banks of the Danube is, in a broad sense, additionally the festive sq. of Brussels. Of Europeanism. Of those that do not need to cease supporting Ukraine. After the Hungarian election night time and the defeat of Viktor Orban, the EU wakes up once more at 27. It finds itself stronger, even farther from Donald Trump’s America. The president of the Commission has remained silent in latest days Ursula von der Leyenprimary enemy of the outgoing Hungarian prime minister, entrusted his silent pleasure to at least one line, on X: “Tonight the heart of Europe beats stronger in Hungary.”

April 12, within the halls of group energy, had lengthy been seen as a vital date for the way forward for Europe. A affirmation of Orban would have distanced Hungary, maybe definitively, from Brussels. Budapest’s vetoes, in latest months, had elevated in quantity and significance, reaching their peak within the “no” to the 90 billion mortgage for Kiev, regardless of Orban himself having agreed to it within the European Council in December. The persistence of European leaders was reaching a degree of no return. It is not any coincidence that among the many very first leaders to name Peter Hungarian the French president was the one to congratulate him on his victory Emmanuel Macron. The French president made it identified, writing a message on

“Hungary has decided, let’s collaborate for a strong and above all united Europe,” the German Chancellor remarked on Friedrich Merz.

“Congratulations to MEP Peter Magyar for his victory in today’s national elections in Hungary. Hungary’s place is at the heart of Europe”, writes the President of the European Parliament on Roberta Metsola.

Nordic and Baltic leaders congratulate Tisza on the historic victory. The Guardian writes it. The Norwegian Jonas Gahr Store hails it as “an achievement of great importance for all of Europe”, and the Swede Ulf Kristersson he calls it “a historic victory”, which “marks a new chapter in the history of Hungary”. Even the president and prime minister of Lithuania ship their congratulations, as does the Prime Minister of Latvia.