Balázs Orbán, the prime minister’s political director, said the quicker the "Brussels elite" is replaced and member states take back control of the European Union, the sooner the continent’s fortunes can improve.
Speaking at a conference evaluating Hungary's EU presidency on Monday, Orbán said the first guiding principle Hungary had to follow in order to continue fighting for the goals of the Hungarian EU presidency was to accelerate the replacement of the "Brussels elite".
He said cooperation between national sovereigntist and patriotic forces had never been as close as it was today, and the work that started under the Hungarian presidency must be continued within this alliance.
The second principle, he said, was preventing "the Democratic leadership that has been forced out of Washington from relocating its headquarters to Brussels".
Orbán said the third principle was that Hungary had to be able to "honestly and factually express its own interests and goals", regardless of any outside influences.