The Hungarian prime minister arrived in Vienna on Thursday, where he was received by parliamentary president Walter Rosenkranz in a meeting condemned by several Austrian political parties.
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00:00Despite criticism from other political parties, Austria's newly elected Parliamentary President
00:07Walter Rosenkranz, who belongs to the far-right Freedom Party, hosted Hungarian Prime Minister
00:13Viktor Orban in Vienna as his first official guest.
00:19Other Austrian parties, including the Greens and Social Democrats, had pushed back against
00:24Orban's visit, saying the Hungarian leader attacks freedom of expression and democratic
00:29values.
00:32The right-wing Freedom Party finished first in recent Austrian elections.
00:38Experts say the party managed to tap into Austrian anxiety on housing and health care,
00:43often successfully blaming migration for a host of other issues.
00:50Both the Freedom Party and Orban's Fidesz party were founding members of the European
00:54far-right Patriots for Europe group, which is now the third largest in the EU Parliament.
01:03The party is opposed to providing Ukraine with military equipment, questioned the efficacy
01:08of Western sanctions against Russia and challenges the project of European integration as well
01:14as the power granted to EU institutions.