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‘Patriots for Europe’: Hungary’s Orban announces new EU Parliament alliance

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has selected 'Make Europe Great Again' his motto for the bloc's presidency [File: Szilard Koszticsak/AFP]

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO), Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz and the populist Czech ANO party led by Andrej Babis are forming a new alliance in the European Parliament.

“We take on the responsibility to launch this new platform and new faction. I want to make it clear that this is our goal,” Orban told reporters at a joint news conference with FPO leader Herbert Kickl and ANO’s Babis, calling for other parties’ support.

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