Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is hosting Alice Weidel, the Alternative for Germany party's candidate for chancellor, a rare meeting between a European leader and Germany’s far-right party.

Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister has hosted a German far-right party’s candidate for chancellor – a rare gesture from a sitting European leader toward a party German mainstream politicians are fighting to contain.

That a European leader has invited the AfD to a meeting suggests cracks are forming in the so-called "firewall" around the far-right.

It is the first time the Hungarian prime minister is hosting a politician from the far-right German party. The two share an anti-immigration stance and a desire to rebuild Europe's relations with Russia.