After weeks of protracted negotiations, Herbert Kickl’s FPÖ and the Austrian People’s Party have failed to reach a coalition agreement. With Kickl returning his mandate, Austria now faces four possible paths forward, including the prospect of an early election.
Viktor Orbán hosted Alice Weidel, co-chair of the German right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), in Budapest on Tuesday, becoming the first sitting prime minister to officially receive one of the party’s leaders. While the two addressed key challenges facing Europe, progressives—both online and in person—protested the meeting, labelling Orbán and Weidel as fascists.
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok expressed confidence in the country’s border security following visits to the Hungarian–Romanian and Hungarian–Serbian borders. He praised law enforcement personnel and their advanced equipment, reaffirming that Hungary’s borders remain well protected.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis announced his resignation on Monday, which ended his mandate before the presidential elections. If the Parliament approves the date, presidential elections will be held again in Romania in early May.
As Donald Trump has pulled the brakes on US foreign assistance—allocated through USAID to influence domestic affairs via media and NGOs in foreign countries, including Hungary—, the globalist elite has already devised a plan to maintain its network without the US agency. According to statements from progressive media and politicians, Brussels could step in to replace USAID, continuing to fund actors that discredit sovereign governments and undermine their legitimacy.
‘Jews, he noted, had been at the forefront of radicalism, yet after four years of senseless bloodshed, they were now viewed as exploiters and capitalists. Assimilation, he argued, was not a viable path, particularly in national minority regions…Therefore, Dohány advocated for radicalism while seeking to establish Jewish cultural life within it.’
While at least one reported Antifa attack took place in Budapest over the weekend, marking the second anniversary of the brutal assaults that occurred on the streets of the Hungarian capital in 2023, Ilaria Salis—one of the perpetrators, who has been hiding behind European Parliamentary immunity since the summer of 2024—continues to clash with Hungarian State Secretary Zoltán Kovács on X, falsely accusing Hungary of violating her fundamental rights during her custody in the country.
‘Yesterday, we were the heretics. Today, we are the mainstream. Once, we were dismissed as the past; today, we are the future,’ Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán declared in his speech at the Patriots for Europe (PfE) EP group’s summit in Madrid. Over the weekend the most prominent figures of the European right gathered in the Spanish capital under the banner ‘Make Europe Great Again’ (MEGA) to deliver a clear message to the Western mainstream: they are more than ready to take over Brussels.
‘Debates connected to the culture war, including even on such amorphous issues as the West’s slide into spiritual nihilism or the loss of its inner will, are directly relevant to international politics and even international security. Western strategic thinkers must take these issues into account just as analysts in Beijing or Moscow do. To do otherwise would be a potentially dangerous mistake.’
‘Across the Atlantic, MAGA eagerly awaits the rise of MEGA, seeing in the European right a responsible and reasonable partner—unlike those who have cooperated with and been funded by the globalist elite. There will likely never be a better moment for MEGA to emerge.’