Orbán's grand strategy for Hungary during the impending change in world order
The Hungarian PM spoke about a liberal oligarchy ruling Brussels, Putin's secret weapon, and the collapse of European politics in his speech at the summer university in Baile Tusnad.
The Bálványos Free Summer University and Student Camp (more commonly known as Tusványos) has been organised in Baile Tusnad (or Bálványos) Transylvania since 1990. It has become a large-scale intellectual workshop of the Carpathian Basin, with tens of thousands in attendance. It was originally intended to promote cross-border cooperation, Romanian-Hungarian dialogue and a cultured Hungarian-Hungarian political exchange. According to critics, in recent years it has become a place where members of the Budapest government and representatives of the intellectual establishment close to them express their ideas without substantive debate. It was here that Viktor Orbán first spoke about building an “illiberal democracy’ in 2014, and his speeches have become the highlight of the event and are largely considered to be marking the direction of Fidesz’ politics for the year ahead. This year’s speech was no different.
