WARSAW – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the role of Central European nations is to help protect the European Union against “outside attacks” but also against “internal tendencies to build an empire” while guarding their own independence.
Orban made the comments Wednesday in Polish and Hungarian media as four nations — Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and The Czech Republic — celebrated 30 years of their Visegrad Group, an informal body of political and economic cooperation in the fast-developing region.
The ceremonious gathering at Wawel Castle in Krakow, hosted by Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and attended by Orban, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis and Slovakia's Prime Minister Igor Matovic, was joined by European