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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

Spain's Vox party leader Santiago Abascal speaks to supporters during a rally in Madrid Spain, Sunday Oct. 9, 2022. Former U.S. President Donald Trump has thrown his weight behind Spain's far-right in a video shown at a rally in Madrid that also featured messages Italy's Giorgia Meloni and Hungary's Viktor Orban. The annual rally comes just weeks after Abascal and the rest of Europe's far-right celebrated the victory of Meloni's neo-fascist Brothers of Italy Party. (Jesus Hellin/Europa Press via AP)

Trump speaks via video at rally of global far-right in Spain

By Joseph Wilson and Alicia Leon - 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

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

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

Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill delivers the Christmas Liturgy in the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Hungary balks at EU sanctions on Patriarch Kirill, blocking overall package

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

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

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

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

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, listens to Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, right, during their meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia reaches out to NATO member Hungary as alliance opposition mounts

By Mike Glenn - 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

Hungary’s parliament overhauls higher education amid outcry

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

Hungary lifts some restrictions despite virus death spike

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

Hungary to ease lockdown after hitting vaccination milestone

Associated Press

An employee unloads the newly arrived coronavirus vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm at the logistics base set up to in the parking lot of the government office in the 13th district of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, March 29, 2021. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Hungary first in European Union for vaccinations, and deaths

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, March 20, 2019 file photo, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, center, arrives to a European People's Party's meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels. Hungary's governing party pulled out of its conservative group in the European Union's legislature on Wednesday, March 3, 2021 following years of conflict over the rule of law and European values. In a letter Wednesday to Manfred Weber, chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced Fidesz's decision to leave the group. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

Hungary pulls its ruling party out of EU’s conservatives

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press

Prime ministers from central Europe Igor Matovic of Slovakia, left; Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland, center; The Czech Republic's Andrej Babis, second right and Viktor Orban of Hungary, right, with European Council President Charles Michel, second left, taking a family photo following a news conference at a meeting marking 30 years of central Europe's informal body of cooperation called the Visegrad Group, at a conference center in Krakow, Poland, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Central European leaders push for faster vaccine deliveries

By MONIKA SCISLOWSKA - Associated Press

A man receives a shot of Russian vaccine Sputnik V at Central Hospital of the Hungarian Defence Forces (military) in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, as the vaccination with Sputnik V against the new coronavirus begins in the country. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

Chinese vaccine will pull Hungary ahead of EU, PM says

By JUSTIN SPIKE - Associated Press