He said international political players needed to display more empathy, understanding and humility than before.

Orbán said that Hungarians, having been presented as supporting a “morally inferior” stance on migration, the question of nation-states or family matters by those positioning themselves as “guarantors of moral superiority”, had “hurt” Hungarians “immensely”.

“Hopefully we can now be rid of this,” he said.

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