VP Vance is in Budapest to support Hungarian PM Orban, who is trailing in the polls

NPR | By Rob Schmitz

Published April 7, 2026 at 5:03 PM EDT

Vice President J.D. Vince slams the European "bureaucrats" for allegedly meddling in Hungarian politics, as he joins an election rally with incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Rob Schmitz

Rob Schmitz is NPR's international correspondent based in Berlin, where he covers the human stories of a vast region reckoning with its past while it tries to guide the world toward a brighter future. From his base in the heart of Europe, Schmitz has covered Germany's levelheaded management of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rise of right-wing nationalist politics in Poland and creeping Chinese government influence inside the Czech Republic.

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