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 […]
There is no fatigue from Ukraine in the European Union, but there is fatigue from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk after arriving at a meeting of the European Council, reported Interfax-Ukraine on Feb. 1. “There is no problem with the so-called fatigue from Ukraine,” Tusk said. “We are currently […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán considers his mission at the EU summit accomplished, claiming that his requirements in the context of providing Ukraine with macro-financial assistance worth €50 billion have been fulfilled. Source: European Pravda; Viktor Orbán on Twitter (X) “Mission accomplished. Hungary’s funds will not end up in Ukraine, and we have a control […]
EU leaders reached a compromise with Hungary to approve the allocation of a macro-financial assistance package of €50 billion to Ukraine and prevent a veto from Viktor Orbán. Source: Politico, citing three European diplomats, as reported by European Pravda Details: Sources say that European leaders persuaded Orbán with three proposals, including an annual report by […]
BEREHOVE, Ukraine (AP) — Under the watchful eye of their teacher, a group of students in western Ukraine used a scalpel and forceps to dissect a pig’s heart during a weekend biology class. The lesson was taking place in Hungarian: the students, members of a sizable ethnic Hungarian minority, have become a focal point of […]
Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, has paid tribute to fallen Ukrainian defenders before negotiations with Ukrainian officials in Uzhhorod. Source: European Pravda, citing Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry. Szijjártó headed to the memorial to the fallen Ukrainian military alongside Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba and Andrii Yermak, the Head of the Office of the […]
The war in Ukraine must end because human lives can only be saved through peace, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, who arrived on a visit to Uzhhorod, said in a Facebook post on Jan. 29. Together with the head of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Presidental Office, Andriy Yermak, and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, […]
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba met with Péter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, in Uzhhorod. Source: Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, as reported by European Pravda. Quote: “Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, Head of the Ukrainian President Office Andrii Yermak, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary Péter Szijjártó have started […]
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto arrived in the western Ukrainian city of Uzhhorod on Jan. 29 for bilateral talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and Andriy Yermak, head of the office of the president. The president’s office said that a “frank and constructive dialogue is expected.” Hungary and Ukraine have had a contentious relationship […]
László Toroczkai, leader of the Hungarian far-right Mi Hazank party, has announced claims to Ukraine’s Zakarpattia Oblast if Ukraine loses its statehood as a result of the war. Source: Index, a Hungarian news outlet; European Pravda Details: In a speech at the party’s annual conference in Budapest on Saturday (27 January), Toroczkai claimed that pressure […]
Ukraine is preparing for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit, the first in nearly fifteen years. Source: Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration, in a comment to Reuters, as reported by European Pravda Details: Stefanyshina commented on the upcoming meeting of Ukraine and Hungary’s Foreign Ministers in Uzhhorod during a […]