Hungarian Conservatives Take Center Stage at CPAC 2025

On 14 March 2025, Hun­gar­i­an Con­ser­v­a­tive report­ed that Polit­i­cal Direc­tor Balázs Orbán deliv­ered a notable address at CPAC 2025, high­light­ing Hun­gary’s pio­neer­ing role in con­ser­v­a­tive pol­i­cy and transat­lantic coop­er­a­tion. The arti­cle begins:

It’s CPAC time again! US Vice Pres­i­dent JD Vance kicked off this year’s Con­ser­v­a­tive Polit­i­cal Action Con­fer­ence (CPAC) 2025 with a the­mat­i­cal­ly sim­i­lar, though less shock­ing and strik­ing address com­pared to his speech last week at the Munich Secu­ri­ty Con­fer­ence in Germany.

Orga­nized by the Amer­i­can Con­ser­v­a­tive Union, CPAC 2025 is tak­ing place in Nation­al Har­bor, Mary­land. As usu­al, this year’s con­fer­ence fea­tures sev­er­al big guns expect­ed to steal the show. Besides Vance, atten­dees include Nigel Farage, leader of the British Reform UK party—which cur­rent­ly leads the polls ahead of both Labour and Conservative—Jordan Bardel­la, leader of Marine Le Pen’s Nation­al Ral­ly in France, Argen­tin­ian Pres­i­dent Javier Milei, and for­mer Pol­ish prime min­is­ter Mateusz Moraw­iec­ki. Polit­i­cal direc­tor of the Hun­gar­i­an prime min­is­ter Balázs Orbán was also invit­ed and spoke on the same day as the vice president.

How­ev­er, CPAC would not be CPAC with­out the glob­al right’s biggest (rock)star: Don­ald Trump. The 47th Pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States will deliv­er his speech on Saturday—and giv­en the cir­cum­stances, it is sure to be a real fire­work. US bil­lion­aire and co-chair of the Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy (DOGE) Elon Musk is also attend­ing CPAC, adding even more atten­tion to the gathering.

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Key Points:

• Balázs Orbán empha­sized Hun­gary’s ear­ly recog­ni­tion of migra­tion threats, posi­tions now gain­ing accep­tance across West­ern nations.
• Hun­gary will host CPAC for the fourth con­sec­u­tive year in May 2025, brand­ed as “The Age of Patriots.”
• Orbán cred­it­ed Trump’s vic­to­ry as ben­e­fi­cial for Europe, Hun­gary, and glob­al con­ser­v­a­tive movements.
• Hun­gar­i­an rep­re­sen­ta­tives high­light­ed their coun­try’s stance despite finan­cial pres­sure from the Euro­pean Commission.