We are grateful to Jacques Delors for what he did for us 

We are grateful to Jacques Delors for what he did for us, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the French television TF1 on Friday in Paris where he attended the memorial service of the former president of the European Commission who died on 27 December. 

The Prime Minister reiterated that the French politician had paid a visit to Hungary in 1989, during the communist regime. “We were preparing for a transition, I was active in the anti-communist resistance movement, and he had the courage to come to us before the first (free) elections.” In Hungary therefore “we therefore remember him as a European leader who fought or at least tried to do something for the freedom and sovereignty of the Central European countries under Soviet occupation.” “We Hungarians are very grateful for what he did for us,” he added.