Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán called Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS) ‘the most important and interesting’ document of recent years. Orbán highlighted that the Americans finally recognize Europe’s civilizational crisis, against which Hungary has been fighting for 15 years.
‘America has a precise understanding of Europe’s decline. They see the civilizational-scale decline that we in Hungary have been fighting against for 15 years. At last, we are not fighting against it alone,’ Orbán wrote on X on Thursday, 11 December. His comment came exactly one week after the Trump administration published its new NSS.
As reported by Hungarian Conservative, the document is a nightmare for the European Union’s mainstream elite. The 33-page strategy places particular emphasis on Europe, warning that the continent risks ‘civilizational erasure’ if flawed EU migration policies persist, potentially triggering economic decline, demographic imbalance and a profound cultural shift that could weaken US alliances as some NATO members become majority non-European within decades.
While recognizing Europe’s economic and structural strengths and the value of transatlantic partnership, the document argues that the United States must help Europe correct its trajectory. Its talking points on mass migration, national sovereignty and falling birth rates closely mirror themes advanced by patriotic forces in Europe, including the new right-wing groups in the European Parliament, Patriots for Europe (PfE) and Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN)―and it even offers political encouragement, noting that the growing influence of these parties ‘gives cause for great optimism’.
European leaders reacted with outrage: European Council President António Costa called the NSS an ‘unacceptable threat of interference’, demanding ‘respect’ for European leaders. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz likewise called Trump’s warning ‘unacceptable’, questioning the future direction of the transatlantic alliance.
The NSS also addresses the issue of EU–Russian relations. ‘They [the Americans] see that European liberals have burned the network of relations that once existed with Russia, which was a mistake. According to American decision-makers, Europe’s relationship with Russia needs to be rebuilt at a strategic level,’ Orbán pointed out in his X post. The Hungarian prime minister has recently advocated for EU–Russia negotiations regarding a new European security architecture.
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