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Hungary is stretching the EU’s patience to its limit

8 August 2024 10:53 pm

Hungary is no stranger to spats with its European neighbours. Under prime minister Viktor Orbán’s leadership, it has exercised veto…

Viktor Orban is not abandoning Europe

25 February 2024 5:30 pm

The news that Hungary and China have signed a security pact, following a visit by to Budapest by Wang Xiaohong,…

Viktor Orbán's Texas rodeo

6 August 2022 1:35 am

Say what you want about Viktor Orbán, but he gives a good speech. His address on Thursday in Dallas on…

Viktor Orbán won't save conservatism

26 July 2022 2:16 am

It’s always the ones you most expect. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán, nationalist strongman and post-liberal poster-boy gave a speech…

Why Hungary's opposition failed

5 April 2022 12:51 am

Viktor Orbán has now spent a total of 16 years as Hungary’s Prime Minister but he has not lost his hunger…

Viktor Orbán has played a perfect game with Putin

1 March 2022 2:10 am

On 3 April Hungarians will have their ninth set of free parliamentary elections since the collapse of the communist dictatorship…

Viktor Orbán or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Putin

3 February 2022 8:56 pm

Viktor Orbán first came to prominence when in 1989 he declared on live TV that Hungary must put an end…

Viktor Orbán goes to war on the European parliament

23 June 2021 7:42 pm

‘Times have changed, and whereas thirty years ago we believed Europe was our future, today we understand that we are…

Is the EU breaching its UK treaty by failing to protect LGBT rights?

18 June 2021 12:52 am

Has the EU Commission lost any sense of moral value? This week, Hungary, an EU member state, voted to impose…

The Visegrád bloc are threatening to tear apart the EU

28 November 2020 7:00 pm

The bad boys of Europe are at it again. The EU has been attempting to tie budget funds to members…