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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the NATO summit in Madrid, Spain, on Thursday, June 30, 2022. North Atlantic Treaty Organization heads of state will meet for a NATO summit in Madrid from Tuesday through Thursday. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

Hungarian nationalist PM Orban to deliver speech at CPAC

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

A ruined tank remains on a road in Lypivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is spreading a deadly litter of mines, bombs and other explosive devices that will endanger civilian lives and limbs long after the fighting stops. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)

Western solidarity tested as Europeans divided over immediate end to Russia-Ukraine war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

CPAC in Hungary Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Hungary’s success and the popular support of conservative policies have critics unhinged

By Zoltan Kovacs

Ukrainian tanks move in Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Live updates | Biden explains providing Ukraine with rockets

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders to discuss Ukraine, energy and food security in Brussels, Monday, May 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

Hungary’s Orban wins exemption in EU Russian oil embargo

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is seen on a screen, left, as addresses from Kyiv during an extraordinary meeting of EU leaders to discuss Ukraine, energy and food security at the Europa building in Brussels, Monday, May 30, 2022. European Union leaders will gather Monday in a fresh show of solidarity with Ukraine but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country. (AP Photo/Olivier Matthys)

EU leaders reach compromise on additional Russian oil embargo

By Lorne Cook and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Former Czech President Vaclav Klaus delivers a speech at the CPAC conference in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Dozens of prominent conservatives from Europe, the United States and elsewhere have gathered in Hungary for the American Conservative Political Action Conference, being held in Europe for the first time. The two-day event represents a deepening of ties between the American right wing and the autocratic government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)

CPAC, in Europe for the first time, opens in Orban’s Hungary

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives at the Vatican to meet Pope Francis, Thursday, April 21, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Hungary’s Orban meets pope with Ukraine war as backdrop

By Nicole Winfield and Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledges cheering supporters during an election night rally in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Early partial results in Hungary's national election are showing a strong lead for the right-wing party of pro-Putin nationalist Orban as he seeks a fourth consecutive term. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

EU starts process to cut funding to Hungary over rule of law

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An election official checks a ballot box prior to sealing it at a local polling station in Nagykanizsa, Hungary, Sunday, April 3, 2022, before the start of the general election and national referendum on the child protection law. (Gyorgy Varga/MTI via AP)

Hungary’s pro-Putin PM Orban claims victory in national vote

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Hungary's right-wing populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, center, greets thousands of supporters as they gather in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, March 15, 2022. The so-called &quot;peace march&quot; was a show of strength by Orban's supporters ahead of national elections scheduled for April 3, while a coalition of six opposition parties also held a rally in the capital. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)

Hungary accuses Ukraine of interfering in upcoming election

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

A refugee that fled the conflict from neighboring Ukraine sticks out her hand from a waiting area tent at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Thursday, March 3, 2022. As millions of women and children flee across Ukraine's borders in the face of Russian aggression, concerns are growing over how to protect the most vulnerable refugees from being targeted by human traffickers or becoming victims of other forms of exploitation. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

Concern grows over sex traffickers targeting Ukrainian refugees

By Stephen McGrath - Associated Press

Viktor Orban delivers his annual state of the nation speech in Varkert Bazaar conference hall of Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Feb 12, 2022. He is preparing with his right-wing party FIDESZ for the upcoming elections on April 3. (AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi)

Hungarian PM warns of refugee wave if Russia invades Ukraine

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to the media during a joint news conference with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban following their talks in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Putin says the U.S. and its allies have ignored Russia's top security demands. In his first comments on the standoff with the West over Ukraine in more than a month, Putin said Tuesday that the Kremlin is still studying the U.S. and NATO's response to the Russian security demands received last week. (Yuri Kochetkov/Pool Photo via AP)

Peeved Putin complains West ‘ignored’ demands as Blinken, Lavrov confer

By Ben Wolfgang and David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this Monday, May 13, 2019, photo, U.S. President Donald Trump welcomes Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orban to the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

Trump plays kingmaker in Hungary with endorsement of Orban

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

FILE - A Black Friday shopper wearing a face mask leaves a Walmart store with a TV in Pic Rivera Calif., Friday, Nov. 26, 2021. From appliance stores in the United States to food markets in Hungary and gas stations in Poland, rising consumer prices fueled by high energy costs and supply chain disruptions are putting a pinch on households and businesses worldwide. As economies recover from lockdowns caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, increased consumer demand has helped lead to rising inflation. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)

Food, gas prices pinch families as inflation surges globally

By Justin Spike and Paul Wiseman and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

FILE - Workers place a box containing doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V into a refrigerated container after unloading it from a plane, at the Simon Bolivar International Airport in Maiquetia, Venezuela, Feb. 13, 2021. On Monday, the U.S. will implement a new air travel policy to allow in foreign citizens who have completed a course of a vaccine approved by the Food and Drug Administration or the World Health Organization. That leaves people in Mexico, Hungary, Russia and elsewhere who received the non-approved Russian Sputnik V vaccine or the China-produced CanSino vaccine ineligible to board U.S.-bound flights. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)

Foreign citizens seek US-approved shots as travel resumes

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

President Joe Biden walks into the White House after arriving on the South Lawn aboard Marine One, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Hungary official: Easier to deal with the Taliban than the Biden administration

By Tim Constantine

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks as he arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020. European Union leaders meet for a year-end summit that will address anything from climate, sanctions against Turkey to budget and virus recovery plans. Brexit will be discussed on the sidelines. (John Thys, Pool via AP)

History As It Happens: Orban’s allure

By Martin Di Caro

Hungary's Dora Leimeter (9) winds up to shoot during a preliminary round women's water polo match against the United States at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Wednesday, July 28, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

US women’s water polo team handed rare loss at Olympics

By Jay Cohen - Associated Press