The American-Hungarian conservative love affair

The Take appears to be like on the relationship between American and Hungarian conservatives.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban offers a keynote speech throughout a unprecedented session of the Conservative Political Motion Convention (CPAC) on the Balna cultural centre of Budapest, Hungary on Could 19, 2022 [Attila Kisbenedek/AFP]

The Conservative Political Motion Convention, or CPAC, calls itself the “largest and most influential gathering of conservatives on the earth”. Lately, the United States-based convention has gone world, holding conferences in a number of nations, together with Japan and Australia. Final week, it held its first European gathering in Hungary. The keynote speaker was the nation’s controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who not too long ago secured his fourth consecutive time period in workplace. On this episode, we take a look at why the group of American conservatives went to Budapest.

On this episode:

Flora Garamvolgyi, Journalist (@floragaramvolgy)

Credit:

This episode was produced by Negin Owliaei with Ruby Zaman, Alexandra Locke, Amy Walters, Ney Alvarez, and Malika Bilal. Alex Roldan is our sound designer. Aya Elmileik and Adam Abou-Gad are our engagement producers.

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