Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met his Swedish counterpart Ulf Kristersson in Budapest on Feb. 23 and agreed to purchase four Swedish JAS Gripen fighter jets. After almost two years of delays, Hungary’s parliament is set to bring Sweden’s NATO a…
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto visited Tehran on Feb. 22, meeting his Iranian counterpart, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and signing a trade deal in the agriculture and food industries.Officials of NATO and EU countries rarely visit Iran as it …
Foreign minister: Hungary won’t block new EU sanctions package against RussiaAccording to Szijjarto, Budapest will not obstruct the approval, as all elements of the sanctions package that “harmed Hungarian interests have been removed” and the updated p…
Hungary plans to bring a vote on Sweden’s NATO accession on Feb. 26, said Mate Kocsis, the head of the ruling Fidesz party in parliament, in a post on Facebook on Feb. 20. Sweden and Finland applied to join the alliance in 2022 after Russia’s full-scal…
The EU Council has extended sanctions against Russia until Feb. 24, 2025, in response to the occupation and illegal “annexation” of Ukrainian territories in Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia oblasts, the Council announced on Feb. 20.The Counc…
The Swedish government will announce a military aid package worth 7.1 billion Swedish kronor ($682 million), the country’s largest contribution to date, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) reported on Feb. 19.The Nordic country’s defense support …
Budapest will not block the 13th package of the European Union’s sanctions against Russia, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said at a press conference on Feb. 19.His statement came after the Financial Times reported that Hungary had allegedly…
Peter Szijjártó, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, has said that Budapest will not block the 13th package of EU sanctions against Russia following the meeting of foreign affairs ministers of the EU member states on 19 February.
Source: Euro…
China has offered long-term support to Budapest in the security field, expanding mutual ties beyond economic cooperation, Reuters reported on Feb. 19 after Chinese Public Security Minister Wang Xiaohong’s visit to Hungary.Wang met Hungarian Prime Minis…
Tens of thousands of people protested in Budapest on Feb. 16 over a child sex abuse scandal that has rocked the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and caused a series of resignations. The wave of discontent arose after it was revealed …