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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg attends the informal meeting of EU defense ministers at the Scandinavian XPO in Marsta outside Stockholm, Sweden Wednesday, March 8, 2023. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP)

NATO chief in new drive to bring Finland, Sweden in

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Deputy Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Csaba Hende talks to the media after a meeting with the Speaker of the Swedish Parliament Andreas Norlen in Stockholm, Tuesday March 6, 2023.. A Hungarian delegation, with members from Prime Minister Viktor Orban's governing party is visiting Stockholm. (Caisa Rasmussen/TT via AP)

Hungarian delegation backs Sweden’s NATO application

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Victor Orban briefs the media in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb. 10, 2020. Orban on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, thanked Egypt for its role in capping Europe-bound migration as the two countries inked a series of preliminary agreements in Cairo.(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File )

Hungary further delays vote on Sweden, Finland joining NATO

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Parliament members attend the plenary session where Finnish Parliament voted on Finland's accession to NATO in Helsinki, Finland, Wednesday March 1, 2023. Finnish parliament said yes to Nato, with 184 parliament members voting yes and seven members voting no. One voted empty and seven members were not at the session. (Heikki Saukkomaa/Lehtikuva via AP)

Finland’s Parliament gives final approval for NATO bid

By Jari Tanner - Associated Press

President Joe Biden sits on a train as he goes over his speech marking the one-year anniversary of the war in Ukraine after a surprise visit with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Monday, Feb. 20, 2023, in Kyiv. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, Pool)

Biden assures Eastern European allies as Russia, China confer

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a yearly State of the Nation address in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Hungary’s Orban accuses EU of prolonging war in Ukraine

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is backdropped by a screen showing the countries that signed a strategic energy partnership at the Cotroceni presidential palace in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2022. The leaders of Hungary, Romania, Georgia and Azerbaijan met in Romania's capital to conclude an agreement on an undersea electricity connector that could become a new power source for the European Union amid a crunch on energy supplies caused by the war in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Openly gay U.S. ambassador to Hungary faces personal attacks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban holds a year end international press conference at the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP) ** FILE **

Hungary’s Orban: Ukraine’s backers have ‘drifted’ into war

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban waves has he walks onto stage to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, on Aug. 4, 2022. For the second year running, Hungary will host a conference in May of mainly U.S. and European conservatives as its right-wing populist government, largely isolated in Europe, seeks allies with like-minded movements further afield. The American Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, will host its second event in Europe under the motto “Together we are strong,” according to a statement from the conference organizer released on Monday. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Hungary to host conservative CPAC conference for 2nd time

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

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A Romantic chess opening that gets few dates these days

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a yearender international press conference in the government headquarters in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2022. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s Orban wants to ‘drain the swamp’ in European Union

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the EU-Western Balkans Summit, in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2022. EU leaders and their Western Balkans counterparts gather Tuesday for talks aimed at boosting their partnership as Russia's war in Ukraine threatens to reshape the geopolitical balance in the region. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

Hungary vetoes EU Ukraine aid, deepening rift with Brussels

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, center, receives the applause after addressing the lower Chamber ahead of a confidence vote for her Cabinet, Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Giorgia Meloni, whose party with neo-fascist roots finished first in recent elections, is Italy's first far-right premier since the end of World War II. She is also the first woman to serve as Italian premier. At right Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani and at left, Infrastructures Minister Matteo Salvini. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Breakthrough or breakdown? Europe watches, waits as far-right Meloni takes charge in Rome

By Eric J. Lyman and Marianna D’Alessio - Special to The Washington Times

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a news conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Orban is on a one day working visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

EU proposes to suspend billions in funds to Hungary

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

19th century Tura castle, owned by the son-in-law of the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban is seen in Tura, Hungary, Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2022. Orban is facing a reckoning with the EU, which appears set to impose financial penalties on Hungary over corruption concerns and alleged rule-of-law violations that could cost Budapest billions and cripple its already ailing economy. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)

Hungary faces reckoning with EU that could cost it billions

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Students attend the beginning of a new school year at the Limanowski High School in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022. The public schools in Poland are facing a shortage of teachers, a problem that is growing increasingly serious each year as people leave the profession over low wages and policies of a government which they fear does not value them. A teachers union and teachers say the situation threatens the education of the country's youth, though the government insists that they are exaggerating the scale of the problem. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)

Teacher shortages grow worrisome in Poland and Hungary

By Venessa Gera and Justin Spike - Associated Press

The colors of the Hungarian flag illuminate the Parliament building to mark the national holiday celebrating Hungary's statehood in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Aug. 20, 2022. State founder St. Stephen I, the first king of Hungary was crowned in 1000 A.D. (Peter Lakatos/MTI via AP)

Hungary fireworks go on but weather agency controversy stays

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Istvan Szekeres, engineer of the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company (MOL) checks the receiving area of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the country's largest oil refinery in Szazhalombata, south of Budapest, Hungary, Jan. 9, 2007. Several countries in Europe dependent on Russian energy suffered another blow with confirmation Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, that oil shipments have stopped through a critical pipeline. Russian state pipeline operator Transneft said it halted shipments through the southern branch of the Druzhba oil pipeline, which flows through Ukraine to the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky, File)

Russian oil shipments to central Europe expected to resume

Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 4, 2022. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Hungary’s Orban calls for American conservatives to unite with him against progressive liberalism

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

In this handout photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Saturday, July 23, 2022, Russian Army special forces soldiers are seen on a mission at an undisclosed location in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

Hungarian diplomat pushes talks for swift end to Russia-Ukraine war

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times