Alice Weidel is currently in Hungary to meet with Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2014and instead of advocating for German interests, she used the opportunity to badmouth Germany in front of the Hungarian press. She spoke of restricted freedom of speech and corruption in Germany, praised Orb\u00e1n as the savior of Europe from migrants, and lauded his policies. One can\u2019t help but wonder - what on earth has she been smoking today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That the AfD likes to paint the picture of a \u201csuppressed Germany\u201d is nothing new\u2014but to attack one\u2019s own country so massively in front of a foreign press, while cozying up to an authoritarian regime, marks a new level of escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Hungarian Prime Minister Orb\u00e1n has, over the years, established himself as a symbol of opposition to liberal democracy - he restricts press freedom, restructures the judiciary, defames political opponents, and propagates a racist blood-and-soil ideology. His statements about the \u201cmixing of races\u201d in Western Europe are nothing less than ethnic nationalism that harks back to the darkest chapters of history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And this is exactly the man Weidel throws herself at. She practically begs for approval from a head of government who, just a few weeks ago, referred to the AfD as \u201ca movement with crazy people and ideas.\u201d And why? Because Orb\u00e1n\u2014just like the AfD\u2014dreams of a v\u00f6lkisch, authoritarian Europe without liberal values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet even Orb\u00e1n considers Weidel and the AfD an incalculable risk. Unlike Herbert Kickl\u2019s FP\u00d6, the AfD was not included in his new far-right EU alliance \u201cPatriots for Europe.\u201d Why? Because Orb\u00e1n still wants to maintain economic ties with conservative circles in Germany\u2014and because he knows that the AfD has long since become a toxic actor. Its openly far-right factions and its ties to groups that advocate \u201cremigration\u201d and authoritarian coups are too extreme even for a right-wing populist autocrat like Orb\u00e1n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But none of that seems to deter Weidel. She uses her platform in Hungary to continue spinning the tale of the persecuted AfD in Germany. The fact that the AfD is under surveillance by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution is not because it is being \u201coppressed,\u201d but because its leading figures increasingly flirt openly with far-right and anti-constitutional ideologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AfD calls itself a \u201cpatriotic party\u201d\u2014but when Alice Weidel appears abroad, she does not represent Germany. She represents a caricature of Germany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She flatters an autocrat who has no qualms about embracing racist theories, while at the same time badmouthing her own country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Orb\u00e1n himself considers the AfD an unpredictable movement with radical elements\u2014and yet Weidel eagerly allows herself to be used for his purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anyone who votes for a party whose leader disparages their own democracy abroad while praising a dictatorship must understand\u2014there is no Germany of freedom, democracy, and the rule of law with the AfD. There is only a country that follows Orb\u00e1n\u2019s model. And that means less freedom of speech, less rule of law, less democracy.<\/p>\n
Alice Weidel h\u00e4lt dich aktuell in Ungarn auf, um sich mit Viktor Orb\u00e1n auszutauschen \u2013 und statt f\u00fcr deutsche Interessen einzutreten, nutzte sie die Gelegenheit, um Deutschland vor der ungarischen Presse schlechtzureden. Sie sprach von eingeschr\u00e4nkter Meinungsfreiheit und Korruption in Deutschland, lobt Orb\u00e1n als Retter Europas vor Migranten und preist seine Politik. Man fragt sich […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afd-no-thanks","category-eu-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/kaizen-blog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/weidel-orban-budapest-afd.webp?fit=990%2C506&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Hofmann","author_link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/author\/admin\/"},"yoast_head":"\n