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Hungary will block the adoption of the 20th package of sanctions against Russia, Péter Szijjártó announced on Sunday after a meeting with the Energy Security Council. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the diesel delivery service, which was halted this week, would not be restarted, and that the EU would not support the disbursement of the €90 billion war loan to Ukraine, which the bloc had already decided on. Nearly every country in Europe has significantly reduced or entirely ceased Russian energy imports since Moscow launched its war in Ukraine on 24 February, 2022.
Transportation Minister Janos Lazar says Hungary doesn't need foreign workers and crudely joked that Roma should clean dirty toilets in their stead. Will his comments cost Viktor Orban's party in upcoming elections?
Hungary is the only member state whose EU payments are suspended because of systemic corruption risks, and the Commission now says any disbursement under the bloc's defence funding scheme would come with conditions.
News Politics Hungarians head to the polls in April — and, unusually, someone besides PM Viktor Orbán has a chance to
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán predicted the European Union would "fall apart on its own" due to "leadership chaos" and said Brussels aimed to cut Hungary off from Russian energy supplies during a...
Oszkár Nagyapáti climbs to the bottom of a sandy pit on his land on the Great Hungarian Plain and digs into the soil with his hand, looking for a sign of groundwater that in recent years has been in...
