‘Make Europe Great Again’: Hungary’s new motto for EU presidency sounds familiar

() – “Make Europe Great Again” is Hungary’s official motto for its next turn in the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.

The country announced the motto and a new logo in a video posted on X this Tuesday.

The slogan is an almost exact copy of the one adopted by former US President Donald Trump, who previously praised Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Trump hosted the Hungarian president at Mar-a-Lago in March, and it appeared the leaders held talks after he left the White House in 2021, as he said they “stayed in touch.”

“There is no one better, smarter or better leader than Viktor Orbán. “It’s fantastic,” the former president said to a crowd gathered for a concert at the Florida resort, as shown in a series of videos posted on Orbán’s Instagram account.

According to a statement from the Hungarian Presidency, the cube logo presented along with the slogan “MEGA” was inspired by the “world-famous Hungarian invention, the Rubik’s Cube,” which celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.

The cube features the Hungarian flag on one side and the EU flag on the other.

It is not the first time that Hungary has echoed Trump’s language.

In May, Orbán held the third annual US-style CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) in Hungary.

In his keynote speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Orbán endorsed Trump’s bid for re-election and used the MAGA (Make America Great Again) slogan in his remarks when he said: “Let’s make America great again, let’s make America great again. to Europe again!”

Trump sent a pre-recorded video message to the conference, in which he called Orbán “a great man” and praised “so many patriots in Hungary who are proudly fighting on the front lines of the battle to rescue Western civilization.”