Graham Finlay
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481 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 17 Sep
Graham Finlay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he's now the darling of Europe.
He's traveling around Europe, meeting with especially allies in the European People's Party, like Friedrich Merz in Germany, Donald Tusk in Poland, but also with Macron and giving a shout out to Michal Martin on his very, very active English language social media.
Almost equally conservative.
I mean, he really shares Orban's values in many, many ways.
He's socially conservative.
He's very, very skeptical about migration.
He campaigned on not signing the Migration Pact, which is going into force on June 12th, which everybody should be looking out for.
And but he's used softer language is meeting with his fellow EPP member Ursula von der Leyen, in which a few weeks into his regime, he unlocked 16.4 billion euro, which had been frozen because of Orban's hijinks.
So he's he's very conservative.
He's and I think it's kind of the future Europe and certainly the EPP want, which is.
You know, respect, you know, you can be socially conservative, you can be central right, just respect the rule of law, fundamental rights, international cooperation.
And they're very happy.
Well, the president, again, was installed by the parliament, which was under Orban's control.
And, you know, the least he can say about the president is that he didn't do anything to rein in Orban.
The president has very limited powers.
But more, it's that he doesn't represent the people who have handed power to Magyar in a landslide.
It should be said that all the other parties in the parliament are also conservative.
Fidesz is conservative.
And the third party, the only other party which got seats in the parliament because it achieved 5% of the vote, is the Our Homeland movement, which is a far-right party.
So what we saw was all the liberals and left-wingers in Hungary...
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