Csaba Dömötör, an MEP of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz, told public broadcaster Kossuth Radio that Saturday's summit in Madrid of the Patriots for Europe (PfE) group was "a huge demonstration of strength, a powerful parade of troops from a new European right", from where thousands of participants sent a message of renewal to all parts of Europe.

Dömötör said the most frequently recurring word of the event was "Reconquista", and this was no coincidence because the patriotic community was made up of those who wanted to make Europe great again, to keep it "as we love it: the best place in the world".

Dömötör said that for this strong border protection, recovering competitiveness, stronger family policy, less "ideological foolishness" and more honest words were needed.

The MEP said this community represented normality, therefore it could count on even more support than it achieved last June, which was why its opponents were attacking it in every possible way using political means, but the patriots "cannot be silenced".

Asked if it could have an impact on the European majority that the European press and domestic opposition bodies were labeling PfE as far-right, Domotor said: "Patriotism can never be extreme".

Dömötör said patriots had specific questions with specific suggestions but others "don't react to this, they don't say it shouldn't be this way, that it should be the other way, they just throw back labels", so this response was increasingly misguided.

Asked if he saw any effort on the part of the European Union to take over the role of USAID in financing journalists, Domotor said this was clear.

"This policy failed in the elections in America and it is certain that it will be ended, and therefore the biggest question now is whether they will succeed in installing these money taps in Brussels, whether they will succeed in getting European taxpayers to continue funding these activists," he said. "If it will be up to us, it will not."