Hungary’s Orban presents new alliance with Austria and Czech nationalist parties

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has presented a new alliance with Austria’s far-right Freedom Party and main Czech opposition party Ano, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest right-wing group in the European Parliament (Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has presented a new alliance with Austria’s far-right Freedom Party and the main Czech opposition party, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest right-wing group in the European Parliament.

Mr Orban travelled to Vienna to present the Patriots for Europe alliance of his Fidesz party with the Freedom Party and former Czech prime minister Andrej Babis’s Ano party, a day before Hungary takes over the European Union’s rotating presidency for six months.