Hungary’s Orban criticises EU as he urges people to help him ‘occupy Brussels’

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban gives a speech on the steps of the National Museum in Budapest (Denes Erdos/AP)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sought to mobilise support for his brand of right-wing populism in a speech urging people to help him “occupy Brussels” in European Union elections this summer.

Mr Orban’s address, coinciding with a national holiday commemorating Hungary’s failed 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule, criticised the EU and – similarly to other speeches is recent years – compared it to imperial occupiers that have dominated Hungary throughout history.