Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday arrived in Kyiv, where he is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky amid tensions between the two European leaders over Russia’s war in Ukraine. Orban, a key ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Europe, is making his first visit to Ukraine since Russia invaded in […]
By Andrew Gray (Reuters) -European Union governments agreed to use 1.4 billion euros ($1.50 billion) in profits from Russian frozen assets for arms and other aid to Ukraine, prompting Hungary to accuse fellow EU members of a “shameless” rule breach to bypass its objections. EU members had already decided in May to use profits from […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A former Hungarian government insider turned oppositionist released an audio recording on Tuesday that he says is proof that top officials conspired to cover up corruption, the latest twist in a scandal that’s shaken Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s domination of the country’s politics. The country’s largest protests in years erupted in […]
Brazil’s far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stayed for two nights at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia last month, just days after federal police confiscated his passport and arrested two former aides on suspicion of plotting a coup, Mr Bolsonaro’s lawyer said on Monday. Mr Bolsonaro’s February 12th-14th stay at the Hungarian embassy was first reported […]
Former President Donald Trump on Friday met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at Mar-a-Lago, drawing a swift rebuke from President Joe Biden on the campaign trail. In a readout of the meeting, the Trump campaign said that they “met today at Mar-a-Lago to discuss a wide range of issues affecting Hungary and the United […]
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban will meet former US president Donald Trump on March 8th in Florida, Orban’s press chief told Hungarian state news agency MTI late on Sunday. Last month, nationalist Orban endorsed Mr Trump’s bid to return to the US presidency this year. “We hope the current president will go, and President Trump […]
Oliver Varhelyi, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighborhood Policy, shared a letter on 29 February that supposedly came from Petro Poroshenko, former President of Ukraine and the leader of the European Solidarity political party. In it, Poroshenko asked Varhelyi to lobby the Ukrainian government to stop the “discriminatory practice” of not letting opposition MPs […]
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó visited Tehran on 22 February and met with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, despite the fact that Iran is actively supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine. Source: European Pravda, citing Hungarian media outlet MTI Details: Szijjártó, who was taking part in a Hungarian-Iranian business forum in Tehran, said the […]
By Krisztina Than and Boldizsar Gyori BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian President Katalin Novak resigned on Saturday after coming under mounting pressure for pardoning a man convicted for helping to cover up sexual abuse in a children’s home. Novak, a close ally of conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orban, pardoned some two dozen people in April 2023 – […]
Hungary’s conservative President has resigned amid a public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. The decision by Katalin Novak unleashed an unprecedented political scandal for the long-serving nationalist government. Ms Novak, 46, announced in a televised message on Saturday that she would […]
Hungarian farmers have organised a protest near the Záhony checkpoint on the border with Ukraine, opposing the European Commission’s decision to extend duty-free imports of Ukrainian products for another year. Source: Hungarian business outlet Világgazdaság, reported by European Pravda Details: Tractors and various types of agricultural machinery stretched for hundreds of metres near the Hungarian-Ukrainian […]
Next Friday, Hungarian farmers are preparing to protest on the border with Ukraine near the town of Záhony against the EU’s extension of the preferential trade regime with Ukraine, in particular for grain. Source: Telex, reported by European Pravda Details: István Jakab, the head of the Association of Farming Cooperatives in Hungary (Magosz), said that […]