Upon arriving for a Patriots for Europe (PfE) meeting ahead of a European Union summit in Brussels on Thursday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said the PfE are "Brussels’ opposition" and aims to become the majority.
This will take "a few years", PM Orbán said, adding that the Patriots are working towards this goal and deepening their cooperation and friendship.
He said the grouping aimed to "change everything" in Brussels the way Donald Trump had done in the United States.
PM Orbán called for stopping migration and giving up "all the crazy gender ideas". He also called for making peace and pushing down energy prices as quickly as possible in order to make the European economy competitive again.
Asked if he would present his peace plan to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who has been invited to Thursday’s EU summit, PM Orbán said that the plan was "on the table", and Ukraine would either accept it or not.
The prime minister said the plan was about brokering a ceasefire for the holidays in order to prevent the deaths of thousands of young people on the front line.
He said a truce like this was not unprecedented in European history, noting that his initiative also proposed a prisoner exchange.
Asked if he was planning to hold bilateral talks with Zelensky on Thursday, the prime minister said he was "always prepared" for all "sensible" talks.
Asked if the PfE group could expand after Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced her resignation as president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) party and is set to be replaced by former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, PM Orbán said he had spoken with Morawiecki on Tuesday and they had agreed that PfE and ECR would aim to deepen and broaden their cooperation, which later on could lead to "greater unity".