Vienna: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced in Vienna on Sunday an alliance with populist parties from Austria and the Czech Republic at the EU level, dubbed Patriots for Europe, to form a new far-right group in the European Parliament. The Patriots for Europe grouping draws in Orbán’s Fidesz party, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and the Czech Republic’s Action of Dissatisfied Citizens, commonly known as ANO (Yes), should soon gain more members and become the “largest group of right-wing forces in Europe,” the Fidesz leader said. “Then the sky is the limit,” said Orbán, whose country takes over the rotating EU Council presidency on Monday until the end of the year. Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from at least four other EU states would be needed to form a parliamentary group.(dpa)
