Hungarian President Katalin Novák visited BYU’s Provo campus on Tuesday
Hungarian President Katalin Novák visited the Provo campus on Tuesday to speak to students and meet with administration before visiting Governor Cox at the state capitol to discuss “relations and joint priorities,” according to the governor’s office. Though Hungary’s presidency is more of a ceremonial position, Novák’s visit still underscores the extent to which Hungary wants to strengthen its ties to American religious conservatives.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, who holds the majority of power in Hungary and amasses more by the day, has made inroads in courting American conservatives. While speaking in Dallas at the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference, Orbán proclaimed his nation “the Lone Star State of Europe.” Unapologetic about his nationalistic views, OrbánAs evidence of his successful courtship of American conservatives, Orbán did not need to travel to Texas the following year.
Hungary did not open its borders to immigrants during the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis, and Orbán is not shy about indicating the reason behind such a decision. “We are not a mixed race … and we do not want to become a mixed race,” OrbanHungary’s ambassador to the U.S.
Furthermore, nothing seems to persuade Orbán to cut ties with the Kremlin – not even Putin’s war on Ukraine. Orbán, who once
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