Hungary’s Orban calls AfD leader ‘the future of Germany’

Mr Orban met Alice Weidel in Budapest (MTI via AP)

Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister has hosted a German far-right party’s candidate for chancellor – a rare gesture from a sitting European leader toward a party German mainstream politicians are fighting to contain.

Viktor Orban met with Alice Weidel, co-leader of Alternative for Germany (AfD), in Hungary’s opulent Carmelite Monastery.