(ANSA-AFP) - BUDAPEST, OCT 23 - Prime Minister Viktor Orban
on Wednesday urged Hungarians to "resist" Brussels like they did
Moscow almost 70 years ago, as he marked the central European
country's 1956 anti-Soviet uprising. The nationalist premier --
Moscow's closest EU ally whose country holds the bloc's rotating
presidency -- has been stoking fears of a war between the West
and Russia, which he blames on the European Union and NATO. At
home, Orban, who has ruled Hungary since 2010, is under rising
pressure, facing an unprecedented challenge from
former-government-insider-turned opposition leader Peter Magyar.
"Do we bow to the will of a foreign power, this time from
Brussels, or do we resist it? ... I propose that our response
should be as clear and unequivocal as it was in 1956," Orban
told thousands of people in Budapest. (ANSA-AFP).
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