After 16 years in power, Viktor Orban is stepping down as Hungary’s prime minister. In Europe, the fact that the veteran politician will finally be replaced by a younger, more pragmatic leader is cause for celebration. Peter Magyar, head of the Tisza party that won Sunday’s elections, is set to …
Read More »EU spied on Hungary’s Viktor Orban for years – former Slovak minister
The EU spy campaign that helped bring down Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a lesson to anyone who defies Brussels, former Slovak Interior Minister Vladimir Palko has warned. “What they did to Orban yesterday, they can do to you tomorrow,” he told the outlet ‘Marker’ on Monday. Orban’s Fidesz …
Read More »Viktor Orban is the only EU leader standing up to Zelensky’s Kiev mafia
Politics can be very rough. Yet, usually, as long as they don’t collapse into war, at least in public a certain minimum pretense of decorum is maintained. Especially by governments vitally dependent on others’ support. Ukraine under the rule of never-reelected Vladimir Zelensky, however, has anything but a normal political …
Read More »EU must stop funding ‘corrupt Ukrainian war mafia’ – Orban
The EU must stop prolonging the Ukraine conflict by funding the “corrupt war mafia” in Kiev and instead focus its efforts on peace, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said. The prime minister made the remarks on Tuesday amid a massive graft scandal that continues to rock Ukraine. Last week, …
Read More »Orban reveals what he told Trump about Russian oil
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told US President Donald Trump in a recent phone call that his country’s economy would plummet almost instantly if it stopped receiving Russian oil and gas. Budapest continues to resist mounting pressure from Brussels and Washington to end its reliance on Russian energy, citing geographic and …
Read More »Bureaucrats in Brussels will ‘reap what they sow’ – Orban
Hungary does not share the EU’s concerns about a possible trade war with the US, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a Facebook post on Tuesday. He added that his nation will reap economic benefits from the US under Donald Trump’s presidency. Last week, the US president announced plans to …
Read More »Orban visits Russia
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has arrived in Moscow, where he is expected to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ways to resolve the Ukraine conflict. Orban’s arrival was announced by his press secretary Bertalan Havasi, who stated that the Hungarian leader had come to Russia “as part of …
Read More »I don’t need a mandate to promote peace – Orban
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has defended his peacemaking efforts after a senior EU official criticized his purported plans to travel to Russia. Orban, who visited Kiev earlier this week and urged Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky to consider an immediate ceasefire, will pay a visit to the Russian capital on …
Read More »EU could stop Ukraine conflict in 24 hours – Orban
The West is “within centimeters of a direct conflict” with Russia, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has warned, noting that both the EU and US need pro-peace forces to replace those currently in power in order to avoid this scenario. In an interview with TV2 on Friday, just two days …
Read More »Orban sizes up chances of Ukraine joining EU
Hungary believes that Ukraine is very far from becoming a member of the EU and Budapest will not change its stance on accession talks in exchange for a hypothetical unfreezing of funding by Brussels, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Radio Kossuth on Friday. “Ukraine is absolutely not ready to negotiate …
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