A never-ending press conference that lasted nearly two hours during which the Prime Minister of Hungary did not shirk any question from the press. Viktor Orban, who is in Strasbourg as the current president of the EU Council, gave the press room a preview of most of the topics he will be reporting about to the MEPs tomorrow. Ukraine, migration, Trump, economy are some of the topics addressed by the longest-serving leader in the European Union. “The situation of Europe is serious”, he began, speaking of the ongoing conflicts (Ukraine, Middle East, Africa…), the migratory pressures that “threaten our security”, the loss of competitiveness of the EU economy (quoting, in this case, the Draghi report). “Tomorrow, I will bring the proposals of the Hungarian presidency to the EU Parliament: the European Union must change and we want to be the catalysts of such change”. Orban professed to be “pro-European”, though he explained that he has a different view from the “mainstream of the Brussels bubble”, where, in his opinion, “the Left, Liberal and Centre-Right wings” of People’s parties rule. Some of the points in his programme to “change” Europe that he mentioned is the greater competitiveness of the economic and industrial system, the strengthening of the single market, the “union of capitals”, a “farmer-centric” agriculture, responses – though he did not mention which – to the “demographic crisis”. “Border protection” was perhaps the issue that was most frequently mentioned in Orban’s speech, partly urged by the journalists’ questions. “We have built a fence and have stopped migration. Now, the operative word to stop migrants is hotspots outside” of the EU. According to Orban, applications for entry permits, as opposed to what is prescribed by international law, “should be submitted from outside of the EU”.