On a day when France's right-wing parties were hoping to score a historic electoral breakthrough, conservative European parties a few hundred miles away were announcing plans for an ambitious continent-wide union of forces.
FILE - Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, June 27, 2024. When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on Monday July 1, 2024 many politicians in Brussels will have the …On a day when France’s right-wing parties were hoping to score a historic electoral breakthrough, conservative European parties a few hundred miles away were announcing plans for an ambitious continent-wide union of forces.
The three parties are inviting other far-right movements that have been gaining popularity in elections in recent years across the European Union to join them. Europe’s conservative populist surge has been hampered in the past by the failure of right-leaning ideological parties to operate together. Mr. Orbán’s right-wing Fidesz party has been in power for more than a decade and has become a beacon of global conservatism for its willingness to challenge the power and policies of the European Union establishment in Brussels.
All three leaders also cited stricter rules on immigration and the need to curb the powers of the EU bureaucracy as key planks in their new platform.
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