BUDAPEST — U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday insisted that Brussels rather than Washington was interfering in Hungarian politics before a crunch election on April 12, which will decide the future of key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Vance’s criticism of the EU came amid a full-throated endorsement of Orbán, although he denied he was trying to boost the flagging campaign of the Kremlin-aligned leader, who has run Hungary for the past 16 years. “Now, I don’t expect, of course, the people of Hungary to listen to the vice president of the United States, that’s not primarily why I’m here,” he said at a press conference at the Hungarian prime minister’s office. “But I did want to send a signal to everybody, particularly to the bureaucrats in Brussels, who have done everything that they can to hold down the people of Hungary, because they don’t like the leader, who has actually stood up for the people of Hungary. And I think it’s important to say that,” he added.
Published: April 7, 2026 2:15 pm
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