Hungary

The irony if a Putin-Zelenskyy meet happens in Budapest

The US is considering hosting Ukraine-Russia peace talks in Budapest, a city tied to the broken 1994 security pact, with Trump set to join if the summit happens

Hungary's opposition leader tells Russia to avoid interfering in country's elections

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) had published a statement describing the opposition leader as being loyal to "globalist elites" and alleging that the European Commission was considering "regime change in Budapest"

History Today: When Austria-Hungary’s declaration of war on Serbia began World War I 

World War I began on July 28, 1914, after Austria and Hungary declared war on Serbia. This came just a month after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo. On this day in 2005, the Irish Republican Army formally announced the end of its decades-long armed campaign

Hungary passes constitutional amendment to ban LGBTQ+ community, dual nationals

Hungarian lawmakers overwhelmingly backed constitutional changes targeting the country's LGBTQ community and dual nationals, the latest step to strengthen longtime nationalist PM Viktor Orban's self-styled "illiberal" brand of democracy

Facing ICC arrest warrant, Netanyahu lands in Hungary; Orban’s minister says withdrawing from the court

Hungary's government announced on Thursday that it will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is subject to an ICC arrest warrant, arrived in the country for a state visit

Defying ICC arrest warrant, Israel's Netanyahu begins four-day visit to Hungary tomorrow

As a founding member of the ICC, Hungary is theoretically obliged to arrest and hand over anyone subject to a warrant from the court but Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made clear when he issued the invitation that Hungary would not respect the ruling

Is Le Pen verdict a Trump moment for Europe's right wing?

Le Pen’s conviction triggers a reckoning in Europe challenging far-right momentum and mainstream responses

The EU is done with Viktor Orban. It can’t bear him anymore

The Hungarian prime minister has long been a thorn in the EU’s side. Yet until recently, most of the damage he inflicted — from judicial rollbacks to attacks on press freedom — was viewed as containable. No longer

Hungary bans Pride parades, grants authorities facial recognition powers to track attendees

The amendment to Hungary’s assembly law criminalises organising or participating in events that contravene the country's controversial “child protection” law, which prohibits any “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality to individuals under 18

Raisina Dialogue 2025: Hungary's foreign minister says country was 'Trump before Trump'

For more than a decade, Hungary's government has pursued policies that closely resemble the ideological stances that propelled Trump to the White House in 2016, Hungary's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Peter Szijjártó, said