Viktor Orbán Meets Austrian Chancellor for Controversial Talks in Vienna

PeoplePoliticians ♦ Published: August 1, 2022; 10:23 ♦ (Vindobona)

Viktor Orban, the polarising Prime Minister of Hungary, met with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer last week in Vienna. The two statesmen expressed friendship, but also disagreed on some issues.

Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban and the Austrian Federal Chancellor Karl Nehammer. / Picture: © Bundeskanzleramt (BKA) / Dragan Tatic

Last week, the polarising Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, met with the Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer in Vienna. The meeting was marked on the one hand by declarations of common friendship, but also by differences between the two statesmen.

It was a meeting that was ill-omened from the outset. The already delicate encounter with the controversial Hungarian prime…