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Trump and Putin Call the Shots. Will Europe Wag Its Tail? – OPINION
24 October 2025
Migration has been a favoured topic of V4 populists, which they either consider a threat to their own countries’ national identity and/or exploit for electoral opportunism. They have not been shy using extreme rhetoric with little room for political correctness.
The topic helped propel Law and Justice (PiS) into power in Poland’s 2015 Parliamentary Elections, during which Mr. Kaczyński fearmongered refugees could spread “dangerous diseases, parasites or protozoa”.
Former-PM Robert Fico also made it a key topic in Slovakia’s 2016 Parliamentary Elections. Czech PM Andrej Babiš, who won parliamentary elections in 2017 with similar anti-immigration pledges, recently made headlines stating “I went into politics mainly to look after Czech citizens. Why should we be caring for Syrian orphans?”
Likewise, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán seized the topic as well to win this year’s parliamentary elections.
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