According to news wire MTI, Orbán noted that he had spoken with “the Americans, the Russians, the Europeans, the Turks”, and he was positive that once Donald Trump took office the world would make an about-turn.

“We’re still in perilous times: the governments in Germany and France have failed and Syria, the biggest source of migration in the past decade, has seen its government toppled,” he said.

He added, however, that no longer would “we have to navigate stormy seas” and “calmer waters lie before us”.

Orbán said it would only take “a day or two after January 20” for the about-turn to take place, because “the new administration in America will get off to a flying start”, and the changes would soon reach Europe on issues “that are also most important to us”.