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Video: PM Orbán Calls EPP Critics 'Useful Idiots'

• 4 Mar 2019 10:45 AM

Hungary's controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at members of his own EU-wide conservative party, the European People's Party, calling them 'useful idiots' of the Left.

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