The Hungarian government started a fresh round of anti-EU billboard campaigns ahead of the EU elections. Leading EU opposition figures are being portrayed as servants of the Commission, particularly President Ursula von der Leyen. In the firing line (...)
Thousands took to the streets of Budapest to protest after a former government insider turned critic released an audio recording embroiling top officials in Hungary in a conspiracy to cover up corruption.
Peter Magyar, the ex-husband of Justice (...)
European Union countries reached on Wednesday evening a hard-fought deal to boost and revamp military assistance to Ukraine. The agreement struck by ambassadors in Brussels will inject an additional €5 billion into the European Peace Facility (EPF) (...)
Donald Trump will not fund Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion if he is elected US president again, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has said.
"He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war. That is why the war will end," the conservative (...)
Tamas Sulyok has been inaugurated as Hungary's new president after his predecessor stepped down following a child abuse scandal.
Sulyok, previously head of Hungary's Constitutional Court, was nominated as President by Hungary's ruling Fidesz (...)
Hungary's parliament is on Monday expected to ratify Sweden's membership to the NATO military alliance, giving its stamp of approval 18 months after the Scandinavian country first made a bid to join.
Hungary is the last of NATO's 31 members to (...)
Hungarian MPs have overwhelmingly ratified Sweden's bid to join NATO in a long-delayed vote which paves the way for the Nordic nation's membership.
Sweden applied to join in 2022 after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, but Hungary had accused (...)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his country had opened a new phase with Sweden during a joint press conference with Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson on Friday as Budapest prepares to ratify Stockholm's long-delayed NATO bid.
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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban has for years told his country its children are under attack from deviant sexualities and pedophilia. Now, his government is embroiled in a scandal after it emerged that its president had pardoned a man (...)
Hungary has been shaken by the sudden resignations of the two most popular and successful women in an otherwise strongly male-dominated governing party.
President Katalin Novak and former Justice Minister Judit Varga have both taken responsibility (...)
The president of Hungary has resigned live on television over a decision to pardon a man convicted of covering up a child sexual abuse case.
It was revealed last week Katalin Novak had given clemency to a man jailed for forcing children to retract (...)
The European Commission launched on Wednesday legal action against the so-called "sovereignty law" recently passed by the Hungarian parliament.
The legislation, spearheaded by Viktor Orbán's ruling party and approved by the parliament in (...)
Lawmakers from the party of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán boycotted an emergency session of parliament on Monday where a vote was scheduled to place Sweden's bid to join NATO on the legislative agenda, adding to 18 months of delays that have (...)
European Union leaders reached on Thursday morning a deal to establish a €50-billion plan for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifted his veto.
The decision was taken surprisingly fast at the beginning of an extraordinary summit in Brussels, where (...)
Turkish legislators on Tuesday endorsed Sweden's membership in NATO, lifting a major hurdle on the previously nonaligned country's entry into the military alliance.
The legislators ratified Sweden's accession protocol by 287 votes to 55, with four (...)
Thousands of airline passengers across Europe woke up this morning at the wrong destination – and even in the wrong country – after Storm Isha caused havoc with flights, with dozens of cancelations, diversions and go-arounds in western Europe.
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In a scathing resolution, Members of the European Parliament threatened to launch legal action against the European Commission if the executive releases further frozen funds to Hungary.
The text, approved on Thursday afternoon with 345 votes in (...)
The European Union will, if needed, find a way to bypass Viktor Orbán's veto and approve the €50-billion special fund for Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday.
The package, which is designed to provide Kyiv with financial support until 2027 (...)
Drivers angry at Ukrainian hauliers' entry into EU market say both their government and their union have left them behind.
After ten days, the demonstration of Hungarian hauliers at the Ukrainian border has ended.
The organisers say they are (...)
A 13-year-old who admitted to planning an attack on a synagogue was sentenced to probation — and a book report.
The boy was arrested in September after he created a plan to carry out a shooting at Temple Israel in Canton, Ohio.
He was told to write (...)
If Ukraine is going to get anything out of an EU leaders' summit on Thursday, it will need the grudging backing of Hungary's Prime Minister, Viktor Orban.
He has strongly resisted Kyiv's bid to join the EU and its pleas for aid.
"We are the voice of (...)
Věra Jourová, the vice president of the European Commission in charge of values of transparency, publicly excoriated Hungary's anti-EU campaign, calling it misleading and replete with "verifiable lies."
"This billboard campaign is outrageous and (...)
Ursula von der Leyen has become the personal target of a new campaign launched by Viktor Orbán as part of a national consultation that levels serious accusations against the European Union's political agenda.
The billboards, plastered on streets (...)
Viktor Orban said he and his government would "resist" EU talks scheduled for mid-December on whether to formally extend an invitation to Kyiv to join the bloc.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said Ukraine is "light years away" from (...)
Ukrainian troops could soon run out of ammunition and equipment if hard-right officials in Washington succeed in cutting US funding, experts warn.
Since Russia invaded in February 2022, the US has pledged more than $43bn (€41bn) in military aid to (...)