The gloves were off as Viktor Orbán appeared before the European Parliament in Strasbourg and faced off with Ursula von der Leyen.
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00:00European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
00:05clashed during the plenary session in Strasbourg, where Orban debated to present his six-month
00:09presidency of the EU Council.
00:12Often criticised by his anti-Ukrainian and anti-European stances, Orban delivered his
00:16speech in front of a half-empty European Parliament.
00:20But one of the hottest topics was migration.
00:40Despite speaking in a less competitive tone than usual, the Hungarian Prime Minister accused
00:44the Commission of being a political weapon, and he went further with controversial affirmations
00:48to which he did not provide factual numbers or official statistics.
01:04Von der Leyen did not stand back and counter-attacked by denouncing Orban's support for Putin and
01:09confronting his statements on migration.
01:10The
01:34debate to present the six-month presidency usually takes place at the beginning, but
01:38in Orban's case, it was postponed a couple of times since July.
01:41One reason was the floods in Central Europe.