Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán's meeting with FPÖ leaders in Vienna sparks controversy

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The Hungarian prime minister arrived in Vienna on Thursday, where he was received by parliamentary president Walter Rosenkranz in a meeting condemned by several Austrian political parties.

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00:00Despite criticism from other political parties, Austria's newly elected Parliamentary President

00:07Walter Rosenkranz, who belongs to the far-right Freedom Party, hosted Hungarian Prime Minister

00:13Viktor Orban in Vienna as his first official guest.

00:19Other Austrian parties, including the Greens and Social Democrats, had pushed back against

00:24Orban's visit, saying the Hungarian leader attacks freedom of expression and democratic

00:29values.

00:32The right-wing Freedom Party finished first in recent Austrian elections.

00:38Experts say the party managed to tap into Austrian anxiety on housing and health care,

00:43often successfully blaming migration for a host of other issues.

00:50Both the Freedom Party and Orban's Fidesz party were founding members of the European

00:54far-right Patriots for Europe group, which is now the third largest in the EU Parliament.

01:03The party is opposed to providing Ukraine with military equipment, questioned the efficacy

01:08of Western sanctions against Russia and challenges the project of European integration as well

01:14as the power granted to EU institutions.

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