The EU must not start membership talks with Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told state radio on Friday, stressing this was Hungary's "clear stance" on the issue. EU countries' leaders are due to decide in mid-December on whether to accept the Commission's recommendation to invite Kyiv to begin membership talks as soon as it meets final conditions. Any such decision requires unanimity of the bloc's 27 members, with Hungary seen as the main potential obstacle.
BUDAPEST (Reuters) -The European Union's strategy with regards to the war in Ukraine "has failed" and the bloc should create a plan B as the Ukrainians will not win on the frontline, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Hungarian state radio on Friday. Orban, speaking in Brussels on the sidelines of an EU summit, said there was a "big battle" especially over support for Ukraine. Orban said he saw no reason for Hungary to send its taxpayers' money to support Ukraine.
Soaring inflation is taking the steam out of Hungary s wedding market, supercharged in recent years by Prime Minister Viktor Orban s lavish family support measures, with the number of weddings. | March 27, 2023
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Saturday that Europe was indirectly at war with Russia as several European countries pledge to send battle tanks to help Ukraine fight Moscow s.
More than a thousand Hungarians protested against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s loosening of logging regulations. This was in response to increased demand for wood due to rising electricity and gas prices. The Cabinet of Nationalist Orban, citing the impact of war in Ukraine, relaxed regulations on logging earlier in the month. Opposition parties and activists […]