Orban: Europe 'in trouble'

Europe "is in trouble" as it has still not managed to define its new place in the global economy, the Hungarian prime minister said at an international foreign policy forum at Lake Bled, in Slovenia, on Monday. Europe has a hard time understanding that, unlike the United States and China, it is incapable of "fundamentally changing the rules of the game", Viktor Orban told the 15th annual Bled Strategic Forum. One reason for this is that Europe still does not have a joint military supported by science and innovation hubs that could serve as "the engines of technological advancement", he said. Answering a question, the prime minister said Hungary's political scene was characterised by a "battle for intellectual sovereignty", adding that his government was fighting to enforce its Christian Democratic and conservative approach to democracy as against liberalist views.