Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán awards Italy's Deputy PM with medal of honour
Orbán said the prize was awarded for Salvini's "unwavering defence of Europe."
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Orbán said the prize was awarded for Salvini's "unwavering defence of Europe."
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00:00Viktor Orban, Hungary's righteous Prime Minister, awarded Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo
00:07Salvini with a Medal of Honor for what he called defending traditional Christian values
00:12and fighting migration.
00:15At the awarding ceremony in Brussels, Orban applauded the United States administration's
00:20migration policy.
00:22The EU cannot be a financial network whose goal is to weaken the national governments.
00:28We will also need to clean up what our friends are doing in America.
00:34Matteo Salvini is the leader of Italy's far-right anti-migration Lega party.
00:40During his acceptance speech, he denounced the EU Commission's 800 billion euro defence
00:45plan and called on the EU to take concrete action to ensure peace.
00:52President Trump was on the phone with Putin to talk about peace, while today President
01:00Trump was on the phone with Zelensky to talk about peace.
01:04In these buildings there is someone who talks about war, who prepares for war, who talks
01:10about weapons, and I don't think that the future of Europe is the third world war.
01:15So I think that here there are people who want peace.
01:20Salvini has previously been accused of migrant kidnapping over his refusal to let a migrant
01:28rescue boat dock in Italy in 2019.
01:31The Italian court acquitted him last year.