The Latest Breaking News from Viktor Orbán

The US academic has written a thoughtful and vividly realised account of the extraordinary chain of events around a summer party in Hungary that precipitated the end of Soviet power in central Europe

Wine in imperial measures, we are told, is ‘what leaving was all about’, while the UK struggles outside the single market

One person injured in Russian drone attack on Kyiv; Zelenskiy says military intelligence suggests Russia’s military activity is slowing down

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