Hungary’s main conservative opposition party is keen to deepen military, security and economic co-operation in central Europe, Viktor Orban, Fidesz’s leader, said in a public radio interview broadcast on Sunday.
Every network, be it energy or transport, must be connected from north to south, said Orban.
He said the countries of central and eastern Europe faced similar development problems, and, for this reason, a common central European development bank should be set up.
“I’m thinking of genuine central-European co-operation which is not just about culture and political statements but real military, security and economic co-operation,” Orban told MR1 Kossuth Radio.
Fidesz’s spokesman Peter Szijjarto told a news conference on Sunday that Orban is about to embark on a tour of Europe in order to discuss security and economic issues with leading politicians.
Szijjarto insisted that Hungary was the single outlier in Europe: while other countries had successfully dealt with the financial crisis, “Hungary stayed into failure and an ever deeper crisis,” he said.
Orban is to stress the importance of securing predictable energy supplies for the continent and alternative sources to Russian ones. He will emphasise the need to build the EU-backed Nabucco pipeline, said the spokesman.
