Former Czech PM Andrej Babis’s ANO is establishing a new political alliance with Hungarian PM Viktor Orban’s Fidesz and Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPO). The three parties are calling on other European parties to join them, with the aim of establishing a new faction in the European Parliament, FPO head Herbert Kickl told journalists in Vienna yesterday.
Both Babis and Orban attended the Vienna meeting in person, and the three leaders held a press conference surrounded by screens with signs reading ‘Patriots for Europe’.
Hungary starts its…
