Hungarian PM welcomes Bannon's anti-EU project as 'diversity' in thinking


FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban talks to the media after a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin, Germany, July 5, 2018. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt/File Photo

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's right-wing prime minister Viktor Orban on Friday welcomed the idea of Steve Bannon's new anti-European Union group, The Movement, saying it was time that someone from the United States came to Europe to spread conservative thinking instead of liberal values.

The Brussels-based group, which Bannon - U.S. President Donald Trump's former strategist - has chosen as a platform, aims to help like-minded nationalist, anti-immigration groups across Europe. Bannon told Reuters the objective was to boost the anti-EU presence in the European Parliament at May elections next year.

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