Donald Trump’s defeat in Hungary

democracy • Hungary • Trump • Viktor Orbán, April 13, 2026

Donald Trump’s defeat in Hungary

The relief is immense, but there is still a great deal of work to be done. Viktor Orbán’s defeat is cause for celebration, as Hungary can now emerge from a semi-dictatorship that was as much admired by Vladimir Putin as it was applauded by Donald Trump and the European far…

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FOREWORD

A European renaissance

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Bernard Guetta

What was once a hope is now becoming reality. Since Donald Trump’s first election and the entry of Russian troops into Ukraine, there has been a sense that the member states of the Union are ready to establish a common defence policy.
 
Now we are there.
 
Nothing will be easy, but faced with the Russian threat and the American disengagement, the EU intends to assert itself and do so alongside many other countries, from the United Kingdom to Ukraine.
 
This is the birth of a new power, a European renaissance, which I am documenting here as a journalist and Member of Parliament.

Yours,
Bernard Guetta