Orban's right-wing group meets EU parliament's conditions

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's new far-right party alliance in the European Parliament has fulfilled the requirements to form a political group called "Patriots for Europe."

To form the group, 23 MEPs from seven countries are needed.

On Saturday, the group secured the membership of the far-right Danish People's Party and the far-right Flemish Vlaams Belang, meeting the required threshold.

The Hungarian nationalist leader announced his intention to form a new EU parliamentary group on June 30, promising a "new era" that would "change European politics."

He made the announcement in Strasbourg with Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the centrist ANO of former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis.