On Monday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said about the EU-US trade deal that it was not an agreement but US President Donald Trump had "eaten the European Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen for breakfast".
PM Orbán told an online broadcast dubbed Fight Hour that he had expected this outcome in advance, considering that the US President was "heavyweight" as against the EC President being "lightweight". The US President's position was much more confident, while the EC President's position was always more fragile, he added.
The US has recently struck a similar deal with the UK, which was "much better than this", PM Orbán said. He added that since the European deal was "much worse" than the UK deal, it would be difficult to present it in the future as a success.
PM Orbán said the problem was that, in line with the agreement, Europeans would invest several hundred million euros in the US. "But who will?", PM Orbán asked, adding that the EC had no capital to invest. "In whose name did she agree? Will the German Chancellor take the money there, the French President, or the Hungarian PM will send the capital?", he asked.
He said that "we are supposedly going to buy weapons, to a value of several hundred billion euros". "But who will? The Commission has no army," PM Orbán added.