The Latest Breaking News from Viktor Orbán

While it may seem glib to repeat the notion of a new cold war, winter 2023-2024 has brought with it the sense that there is now an ever-more uncertain faultline between the west and an increasingly aggressive Russia – perhaps more vividly than at any time since the late 1980s.…

State department says sovereignty protection office can be used to ‘intimidate and punish’ Hungarians critical of government

The Hungarian leader wants to deprive Kyiv of funding and to halt expansion plans, but officials are mapping out a workaround, says Paul Taylor of the Friends of Europe thinktank

The attack, which took place this week, lasted 48 hours and caused huge disruption, UK intelligence said

Kyiv confident EU aid will be approved despite Hungarian veto; Ukrainian village council member injures over 20 people after detonating grenades at meeting

EU opens membership talks with Ukraine but Orbán vetos aid package; on the frontline in Avdiivka

Editorial: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán has blocked aid for now, but the decision to begin membership negotiations should be celebrated

French president accuses Hungarian PM of being dishonest to the public about his reasons for vetoing aid

Kyiv hopeful ‘all necessary legal procedures’ will be completed at EU summit in January

Populism is booming. The first US Republican primary is only weeks away and former president Donald Trump, who is a master of populist techniques, commands substantial support. Meanwhile one in three Europeans are now voting for populist parties.

Hours after declining to use his veto to block Ukraine accession talks, he exercised it to scupper plan to revamp EU budget