Viktor Orban
21 Dec
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday that "some kind of disease is eating away" at Western democracies, evoking former US president Donald Trump's legal woes and Poland's reform of state media. The nationalist leader, who has frequent run-ins with Brussels over rule-of-law and other issues, said he saw "strange things in the Western…
15 Dec
Russia congratulated Hungary on Friday for blocking EU financial aid to Ukraine at a Brussels summit that nonetheless saw EU leaders overcome Budapest's opposition to agree Kyiv starting membership talks.
16 Jun 2023
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban blasted the EU's plan to share hosting of asylum seekers more equitably Friday, comparing it to wartime deportations.
28 Apr 2023
Pope Francis called for a recovery of the European spirit and a rejection of "adolescent belligerence" amid rising nationalism and war in Ukraine, during his visit to Budapest Friday.
28 Apr 2023
Pope Francis headed to Hungary Friday for a three-day visit likely to be dominated by the war in Ukraine and his meeting with nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whose views often clash with his own
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