【Orbán: 2025 May Be the Last Peaceful Year in Europe】
On December 24, 2025, in Budapest time, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán answered a question from the "Hungarian National Newspaper" as follows:
Yes! It is not ruled out that 2025 will be the last peaceful year in Europe. For 80 years since the end of World War II, Europe has been worried that a new military conflict could escalate into a nuclear one. But now, a brand-new world is taking shape. The risk of escalation in the Ukraine-Russia war seems to be a consequence, but the real reason is the political, economic and social decline in Western Europe. This process began in the mid-2000s and was accelerated by an inadequate response to the financial crisis. Twenty years ago, the economies of the EU and the US were roughly comparable. Now, the United States is soaring high in the sky, while Europe is gradually declining. This once exemplary continent of the world has become a lightweight player in just a few years.
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