Hungary – Hungary voted against the European Union’s new aid package for Ukraine at the December 14-15 European summit in Brussels. This decision, which blocked its adoption, provoked mixed reactions and added new tensions in Hungary’s already difficult relations with the EU.…
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Kazakhstan on November 1 together with his Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó and Finance Minister Mihály Varga. The Hungarian government’s delegation held talks with Kazakh leaders in Astana before attending the 10th…
Slovakia – The early parliamentary elections held in Slovakia on Saturday, September 30 once again reshuffled the political deck in this Central European country.
In all likelihood, the social democrat Robert Fico, a former prime minister (both in 2006–2010 and 2012–2018), should…
Hungary – Hungarian President Katalin Novák visited Ukraine to support the Ukrainian Hungarian community and meet President Zelensky.
Novák first went to Subcarpathia (aka Transcarpathia) on August 22 for the second time since she took office before continuing on to Kyiv on…
Hungary / Romania - Each year, end of July, Viktor Orbán holds a speech of political philosophy at the summer camp of Bálványos in Băile Tușnad (Tusványos or Tusnádfürdő in Hungarian) in Transylvania – a region formerly Hungarian, of which many parts…
Central Europe – To mark the end of Slovakia’s presidency of the Visegrád Group before handing it over to Czechia, Slovakia’s Prime Minister, Ľudovít Ódor, welcomed his V4 counterparts to Bratislava for a summit on immigration last Monday at a time when…
Hungary/EU – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has once again criticized the European Union’s hegemonic, totalitarian drift. His numerous detractors in the EU are now attacking him for supposedly drawing a parallel between today’s EU and Hitler’s Third Reich, which is clearly…
Hungary – After last year’s first European instalment, a second meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was organized in Budapest on May 4–5, 2023. It is no coincidence that the Hungarian capital has again been chosen to host the only…
Poland/Hungary - Poland and Hungary, whose century-old friendship is often presented as the driving force behind the Visegrád Group, or V4, and more generally behind cooperative initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe (such as Visegrád+ and the Three Seas Initiative), have opposite…
Hungary – The U.S. Ambassador’s April 12 press conference did not come as a surprise. The opposition press had already announced probable U.S. sanctions against Hungarian officials. On Wednesday, Ambassador David Pressman criticized Hungary for its cooperation with Russia and announced sanctions against the International Investment Bank…
Hungary – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán visited Paris on Monday, 13 March, where he was received by French President Emmanuel Macron for a working dinner at the Élysée Palace. The two leaders discussed the Russian-Ukrainian war and the development of the…
Hungary – One significant consequence of Russia’s war in Ukraine was Finland and Sweden’s application for NATO membership last year. For those two traditionally non-aligned countries to become members of the Atlantic Alliance, however, they have to get the green light from…