 The populist leader repeatedly claims the EU threatens Hungarian sovereignty, is destroying its middle class and its agricultural sector, and he's vowed to shake up the power structures in Brussels. For its part, the EU has in recent years withheld tens of billions of dollars worth of funding to Hungary over Orban's many violations of the bloc's rule of law principles. Orban has taken away the independence of his country's judiciary and media, and he hasn't bothered to correctly implement the EU's asylum and migration laws. Rob Schmitz, NPR News, Berlin.