BUDAPEST, Hungary – Conservatives from around the world recently met in Budapest to encourage fellow Europeans to take back their countries in order to realign with their original biblical values.
In the opening ceremony, participants sang the Hungarian national anthem, and then listened to the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Some three thousand conservatives from Hungary, Europe, and around the world came to back up the values of God, homeland, and family.
Milos Szantho, the chairman of CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) Hungary, told CBN News, “We managed to build up the broadest coalition of patriotic forces here at CPAC-Hungary, not only from a European perspective, but from a global one. Hungary’s goal has always been to establish a global, but anti-globalist, platform internationally.”
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has helped lead a conservative movement sweeping across Europe, even in the face of legal challenges from the European Union, addressed the conference.
Orban declared, “Today we have the strongest, patriotic, sovereignist, political leaders of Europe. Many of them are here from America. They are the toughest, the most determined, and the most experienced leaders. They are those who have been fighting for their country in international politics for decades.”
He continued, “They are those who have (endured) and been supported (during) a lot of attacks, violence, and (smear) campaigns. There are those here who know there is no victory without suffering, who also know that victory is not only something you have to work for, but also something you have to suffer for.”
Orban sees Trump’s return to the White House as a positive example for conservatives worldwide.
He noted, “The Trump tornado has swept across the world and changed it completely. He has given hope back to the world. We are no longer drowning in a sea of woke. We are not overrun by migrants. He gave us back the hope of a normal life. He gave us back the hope of peace.”
Trump sent a video greeting praising Orban as a great leader and CPAC as an internationally respected organization.
“They have conservative values,” Trump stated. “Conservative values are very good values. And I can tell you they want strong borders; they want law and order. They want all of the things that you want.”
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Szantho described the conference as a success, with 600 international guests from six continents, despite what he called efforts on the part of some to cancel them.
“They tried to cancel Donald Trump in the U.S. before the presidential elections and before the campaign. They are trying to cancel Bibi Netanyahu in Israel. They are trying to cancel all of the rising forces in Europe: in France, in Germany, in Austria. And they are doing the same in Hungary, as well,” Szantho said.
Hungary is also one of the world’s strongest supporters of Israel. Ten years ago, Orban spoke up to oppose the European flood of Muslim migrants into Europe, ostensibly fleeing ISIS.
Recently, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited Budapest, Hungary said it would withdraw from the International Criminal Court rather than arrest Netanyahu, as some U.N. and European officials had demanded.
Szantho sees connecting people with similar philosophies and providing them a platform as one of the biggest positives from the conference.
He observed, “We not only shared the same values, but, we also shared the very same enemy and additional we can show them the Hungarian recipe, how to protect God’s homeland in the family, how to protect at the level of the Constitution, our Judeo-Christian heritage, how to protect the borders and national identity, how to protect the family, and how to protect the children and the marriage from this woke insanity.”
Parliamentarians and others attending the conference agreed.
CBN News’ National Security Contributor Ellie Cohanim told us, “I think CPAC does such an incredible job – not only in how professional this has been, but also bringing together conservatives from around the world and allowing us to share important ideas with each other, but also get to know each other as individuals so that hopefully we can find ways to collaborate around the world and also build friendships.”
Simone Bili, a member of the Italian parliament, said, “It’s very important because the CPAC-Budapest is the most important Congress for conservatives and Republicans. So, for me, it’s a huge opportunity to meet my friends – and to create new contacts, share ideas, share common values, and share also programs and ideas for political plans and political strategy.”
Beatrix von Storch from the German parliament said, “I think it’s very important to stick together, to send out the message that patriotism is a life, that democracy has got to be safe through patriotism, through patriots.”
David Rubin, author of The Rubin Report, told us, “I sense from quite literally everyone that I’ve met here that this is a people who are trying to defend their country and their values and their ability to keep Hungary for Hungarians. And I would defend that from virtually any country on earth. When you see the onslaught that we’re all dealing with – from whether it’s wokeism, whether it’s big tech, whether it’s the globalist or the European Union, in this case, it’s like our work is really cut out for us and we have to find each other amidst the mess.”
