The media noted that the European Parliament elections made the ECR the third largest group in the body, and the Polish PiS party and Meloni's "Italian Brothers" became the two largest national parties.
"Politicians from PiS are still afraid of a turn to the right and remain in their old group in the EP“, notes the pro-government weekly Mandiner.
"Poles and Hungarians are brothers, but Polish conservatives do not agree with Orban”, writes RTL, citing a famous Polish-Hungarian proverb about the historical friendship of the two countries.
On June 30, Orbán announced that together with his former Czech colleague Andrej Babis, they will create a new group in the European Parliament called "Patriots of Europe”. But in order to overcome the threshold of the number of MEPs and parties, politicians need allies to create it.