Nikola Gruevski in Budapest
István Hegedűs commented the former Macedon Prime Minister's political asylum seeking in Hungary who escaped from his prison sentence and the assistance of the Hungarian government in The New York Times on 15 November 2018. Hegedűs claimed that the support of Viktor Orbán, “this sort of dance between east and west, between dictators and Brussels, it cannot work forever”. “As a leader, you are forced to make decisions”, he added.