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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. European Union leaders gather Thursday for a two day meeting to discuss, among other issues, Ukraine and the impact of the war between Israel and Hamas. (AP Photo/Omar Havana)

Hungary’s Orban says negotiations on Ukraine’s future EU membership should not move forward

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attend a press conference after their meeting in Jerusalem, Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. Even before last month’s Hamas attacks in Israel, the leader of Hungary had long promoted his country as the safest in Europe for Jews. Now the Israeli men’s soccer team is taking his word and heading to a tiny Hungarian village as it prepares to play its remaining home games in the Euro 2024 qualifying tournament. Israel will host “home” games against Switzerland next Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023. and Romania three days later. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool, File)

Netanyahu and Orban’s close ties bring Israel’s Euro 2024 qualifying matches to Hungary

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Associated Press photographer Evgeniy Maloletka's image entitled "Mariupol Maternity Hospital Airstrike", which was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year by the jury, on display at the opening of the World Press Photo 2023 exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum, in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Minors under 18 have been barred from visiting this year’s World Press Photo exhibition in Hungary after the government determined that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content. (Szigetvary Zsolt/MTI via AP)

Hungary has fired the national museum director over LGBTQ+ content in World Press Photo exhibition

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Interior Ministry, Serbian gendarmerie officers looking for migrants in a forest near the border between Serbia and Hungary, Serbia, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. Serbian police said Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 they made seven arrests on suspicion of smuggling people into Hungary as part of a days-long crackdown on irregular migration in the wake of a shooting last week in the border area that killed three migrants and wounded one. Reports of violence and gun battles have become common near the border between Serbia and Hungary, a European Union member state. (Serbian Ministry of Interior via AP)

Serbian police arrest 7 people smugglers and find over 700 migrants in raids after a deadly shooting

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Jonathan Fointaine's "The Nomad's Final Journey", which was awarded with an honorable mention by the World Press Photo jury, is on display at the opening of the World Press Photo 2023 exhibition at the Hungarian National Museum, in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Minors under 18 have been barred from visiting this year’s World Press Photo exhibition in Hungary after the government determined that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBTQ+ content. (Szigetvary Zsolt/MTI via AP)

Hungary bans teenagers from visiting World Press Photo exhibition over display of LGBTQ+ images

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Interior Ministry, Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic speaks with police officers near the border between Serbia and Hungary, Serbia, Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023. Serbian police have arrested six people and seized automatic weapons after a shooting between migrants near the country's tense border with Hungary killed three people and injured one. (Serbian Ministry of Interior via AP)

Hundreds of Serbian police deploy in border zone with Hungary after deadly shooting among migrants

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pose for a photo prior to their talks on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Orban will be the center of attention at an EU summit Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023, following his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Diplomats say EU leaders will directly confront him with accusations he broke EU unity in their support of Ukraine. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Fresh off a hearty Putin handshake, Orban heads into an EU summit on Ukraine

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

A Belgian military diver is getting ready to dive under the Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023, during an international training exercise which prepares military divers to find and remove unexploded underwater ordnances. Hungary this year hosted the 10-day exercise for the second year in a row and provided the soldiers from Hungary, Germany, Belgium and Lithuania with hands-on training in a variety of environments, like facing the powerful current of the Danube River. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

Hungary hosts international training for military divers who salvage unexploded munitions

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

FILE - Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban briefs the media in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 10, 2020. The Hungarian parliament has refused a proposal to hold a vote on Sweden’s bid to join NATO, further delaying the Nordic country’s inclusion in the military alliance. The delay on Tuesday comes as Hungary remains the main hurdle to Sweden’s admission into NATO after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan submitted a protocol to Turkey’s parliament on Monday to approve its admission. All 31 allies must endorse the accession. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File )

Hungary in the spotlight after Turkey presses on with Sweden’s bid to join NATO

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally Monday Oct. 23, 2023, in Derry, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Turkey? Hungary? Trump confuses world leaders in New Hampshire speech

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the 2nd day of the Europe Summit in Granada, Spain, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. European Union leaders have pledged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy their unwavering support. On Friday, they will face one of their worst political headaches on a key commitment. How and when to welcome debt-laden and war-battered Ukraine into the bloc. (AP Photo/Fermin Rodriguez)

Orban blasts the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet uprising

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban pose for a photo prior to their talks on the sidelines of the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing, China, on Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. (Grigory Sysoyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin meets with Hungary’s prime minister in rare in-person talks with an EU leader

By Justin Spike and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

Police officers checks cars and vans at the Slovak-Hungarian border in Sahy, Slovenia, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. Slovakia began conducting border checks with neighboring Hungary on Thursday amid what it says is a dramatic rise in illegal border crossings, part of a flurry of similar border measures other Central European countries have imposed in recent days. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Slovakia begins border checks with neighboring Hungary in an effort to curb migration

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Slovenian Minister for the Environment, Climate and Energy, Bojan Kumer, left, is welcomed by Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, right, for a meeting in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (Attila Kovacs/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s foreign minister hints that Budapest will continue blocking EU military aid to Ukraine

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Czech policemen walk on patrol at the border with Slovakia near Stary Hrozenkov, Czech Republic, on Sept. 29, 2022. Slovakia will resume the checks at the border with Hungary to reduce the growing numbers of illegal migrants entering the country, the government decided on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023. The measure, which will become effective on Thursday, came the day that the country’s neighbours, including Austria, the Czech Republic and Poland reintroduced controls on at their borders with Slovakia for at least 10 days to curb migration. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)

Slovakia reintroduces checks on the border with Hungary to curb migration

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his address on the opening day of the parliament's autumn session in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 25, 2023. (Zoltan Mathe/MTI via AP)

Prime Minister Orban says Hungary is in no rush to ratify Sweden’s NATO bid

By Bela Szandelszky - Associated Press

A deer stands by hay bales in a field in Czosnow, near Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Sept.18, 2023. Poland, along with Hungary and Slovakia, continue their ban on imports of Ukraine grain, saying it hurts the interests of their farmers. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Ukraine complains to WTO about Hungary, Poland and Slovakia banning its food products

By Jamey Keaten and Illia Novikov - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the Serbian Interior Ministry, Serbian police officers detain migrants at an undisclosed location close to the country's border with Hungary, Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. Serbian police have rounded up hundreds of migrants and found automatic weapons in a raid along the border with Hungary where frequent clashes have been reported between groups of smugglers exploiting the hardship of people trying to reach Western Europe. (Serbian Ministry of Interior via AP)

Police round up migrants in Serbia and report finding weapons in raid of a border area with Hungary

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a yearly State of the Nation address in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb. 18, 2023. Orban said in a sprawling interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson that the only path to ending the war in Ukraine would be the reelection of Donald Trump to the presidency. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Hungary’s Orban urges U.S. to ‘call back Trump’ to end Ukraine war in Tucker Carlson interview

By Bela Szandelszky - Associated Press

FILE - Hungarian Prime Minster Viktor Orban, center, and UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, right, stand before the Europa League final soccer match between Sevilla and Roma, at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, May 31, 2023. This month in Budapest, the spotlight will shine on Hungary, a country led by Orban a prime minister with authoritarian leanings and a shaky human-rights record. Budapest's latest step onto the international stage starts Saturday, the opening of the nine-day track and field world championships. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Hungary’s Orban to host Turkish, Serbian and other leaders alongside world track championships

By Bela Szandelszky - Associated Press