“New World Order Is Emerging from the Ruins of Global Liberalism”

Balázs Orbán at Tusványos

The neoliberal world order is over; it has not brought the promised peace and prosperity. Now, not only Hungary, but many other countries are turning to sovereignty, traditional values, and Christian democracy in search of prosperity, said Balázs Orbán, the Prime Minister’s Political Director, on Wednesday at Tusványos.

On the opening day of the 34th Bálványos Free Summer University, during a panel discussion on changes in the international world order, Balázs Orbán recalled that the speech given by the Hungarian Prime Minister at Tusványos 11 years ago, in which he pointed out that democracy cannot be based solely on the dominant liberal, progressive, global ideology, caused a huge scandal but ultimately proved to be a “prophecy.”

As he said,

even researchers do not know how the new world order will be shaped: some expect a unipolar world order led by the United States or China, others expect a bipolar or multipolar world order, but there are also researchers who predict an era of chaos.

According to Balázs Orbán, political decision-makers obviously do not know what lies ahead, but what is certain is that there will be a period of transition that could last for decades.

He believes that the period of global change is particularly dangerous if politicians who are poor at managing the transition come to power, as they will not only jeopardize the success of their own countries, but poor political management could also lead to the outbreak of World War III. This must be avoided at all costs, he stressed.

1/10 Eleven years ago, here in Tusványos, @PM_ViktorOrban said for the first time: Democracy can exist beyond liberal dogmas.
At the time, they called it a scandal. Today, we see it was a prophecy.

Now, again in Tusványos, moderated by @ctmnicholson of @InstituteDanube, we… pic.twitter.com/9xpLIZNSJk

— Balázs Orbán (@BalazsOrban_HU) July 23, 2025

The political director called for international cooperation in which competing—and at the same time trading—great powers do not force other countries to line up behind them.

Hungary now has the ability to maintain good relations with both the United States and China, but this was not the case twenty years ago.

We live in a dangerous but opportunity-filled world, and that a situation could even arise in which global and regional power centers would promote Hungary’s success: this is the basis of Hungary’s connectivity strategy,”

the Prime Minister’s Political Director emphasized.

Lord David Frost, member of the House of Lords, guest researcher at the Danube Institute, and chief Brexit negotiator, spoke about how America has “forced progressivism and liberalism down the world’s throat” through the UN and other international institutions, as well as through development aid tied to a progressive agenda – but it is now clear that a new world order is emerging.

Marwan Abdallah, Vice President of the International Union for Democracy in Lebanon and foreign affairs spokesperson of the Kataeb Party, said that his country did not have the luxury of rejecting foreign aid, even if it came with ideological conditions.

He emphasized that small states have an interest in the success of large international institutions, but do not want them to impose their will on them.

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