Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said Hungary was grateful to Jacques Delors "for what he did for” Hungary.
After attending the funeral service of the former European Commission president in Paris on Friday at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron, the prime minister noted that Delors paid a visit to communist Hungary in 1989. PM Orbán told French television TF1 in an interview that Hungary had been preparing for the democratic transition and “I was actively working in the anti-communist opposition movement.” Delors “had the courage to come and visit the country before the first free elections,” the prime minister noted. “Therefore we in Hungary remember him as a European leader who fought — or at least tried to do something — for the freedom and sovereignty of central European countries under Soviet occupation,” PM Orbán said.