JD Vance slams Brussels 'bureaucrats' for meddling in Hungary before election

U.S. Vice President JD Vance on Tuesday insisted that Brussels rather than Washington was interfering in Hungarian politics before a crunch election on April 12, which will decide the future of key MAGA ally Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Vance's criticism of the EU came amid a full-throated endorsement of Orbán, although he denied he was trying to boost the flagging campaign of the Kremlin-aligned leader, who has run Hungary for the past 16 years.

"Now, I don't expect, of course, the people of Hungary to listen to the vice president of the United States, that's not primarily why I'm here," he said at a press conference at the Hungarian prime minister's office.