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With the European elections just around the corner, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently gave a speech launching the manifesto of his right-wing populist party Fidesz. The speech is full of claims that Fidesz has significantly improved Hungary’s economy and prevented the country from being dragged into Russia’s war in Ukraine. The Cube took a look at some of the biggest claims to see if they were true. Claim: Fidesz put Hungary’s economy back on its feet after it was bankrupted by the leftThis isn’t true: Hungary didn’t go bankrupt in 2009, the final year of former Prime Minister Fer…

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