Orban: Hungary wants major powers to have interest in economic success

Hungary's goal is for the world's major powers to have an interest in its economic success, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview to business weekly Figyelo. Asked why it had been in US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's interest to visit Hungary now, seven and a half years after the last visit to Hungary by a US secretary of state, Orban said: "Because we're allies". The prime minister said that while the Obama administration had assigned less importance to central Europe, President Donald Trump's administration paid closer attention to the region. But Orban warned that when exploring the potential for cooperation with the US outside the confines of NATO, "we must always remember that US foreign policy has no long-term political element when it comes to central Europe."