Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said the European Union is facing a leadership crisis and needs to make crucial decisions about its future not only to survive, but to win, writes Euroewns.

“Magyar made the remarks at the Bled Strategic Forum, where he spoke alongside Slovenia’s Janez Janša, Croatia's Andrej Plenković and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš about regional cooperation and competitiveness.

“There is a lack of political leadership, to be honest, in the European Union”, Magyar said, pointing to the EU’s bureaucracy, which he said stifled action. “I was told by a member of the European Council not to deal at all with the bureaucracy, not to reply to them, because they will kill initiatives. They will eat them. And it’s not a good sign. I think we should concentrate again on the reality”.

Magyar said that while the EU was focused on institutional questions, China is preparing to fund nuclear plants and car factories in Europe: “There is a feeling already in Brussels as well that we should change, and in my view we should decide whether the European Union would only like to survive or to win”.

The prime minister, who belongs to the same centre-right European People’s Party as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, also criticised the EU’s daily migration fine against Hungary.