A bipartisan delegation of U.S. Senators will visit Hungary this week to advocate for Sweden’s accession to NATO, as Hungary remains the only NATO country to not yet ratify Sweden’s entry into the alliance.The U.S. Embassy to Hungary said in a statemen…
Sweden is open to providing Ukraine with modern fighter jets, but the Nordic country first needs a full-fledged NATO membership, Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson told the Kyiv Independent during an interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security C…
The sudden scandal has affected the President of Hungary and the former Minister of Justice.
It has become perhaps the biggest political challenge to Viktor Orbán’s regime in his 14-year autocratic rule over the country.
Although this story is not dir…
Hungarian banking group OTP Bank, which was once added to Kyiv’s international sponsors of war list, expressed interest in buying Ukraine’s state-owned Sense Bank, Ukrainska Pravda media outlet reported on Feb. 12, citing unnamed sources familiar with …
Katalin Novák, the Hungarian President, has resigned following a significant public outcry over her decision to pardon a man convicted of sexual abuse in an orphanage.
Source: European Pravda; Index
Quote from Novák: “I made a mistake. The decision to …
Radosław Sikorski, Polish Foreign Minister, has stressed, following President Duda’s controversial statement on Crimea, that Poland recognises Ukraine’s independence within its internationally established borders, which have been repeatedly confirmed b…
The leaders of the 27 EU member states adopted amendments to the budget at the summit on 1 February, aimed at allocating 50 billion euros for financial aid to Ukraine.
This four-year programme, named Ukraine Facility, will serve as the basis for Ukrai…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he “went to the wall” for his country before agreeing to approve a €50 billion macro-financial assistance package for Ukraine at a summit in Brussels on Thursday, 1 February.
Source: Reuters, citing a stat…
Senior U.S. lawmakers asked Hungary on Feb. 1 to “immediately approve” Sweden’s NATO membership bid, warning of “permanent damage” to the relationship between Budapest and Washington, according to Reuters.Sweden and Finland applied to join the alliance…
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that his intuition tells him that EU countries will eventually find arguments to convince Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to unblock €50 billion in funding for Ukraine.
Source: Tusk in a comment to journalis…