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Sex tapes, scandals in Hungary’s local election campaign

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

CORRECTS SLOVAKIAN TO CZECH PRIME MINISTER --- Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis delivers a speech during the 3rd Budapest Demographic Summit in Varkert Bazar conference center in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Hungarian capital city, which hosts the international summit for the third time after 2015 and 2017, welcomes politicians, scientists, church dignitaries and public personalities to give presentations and exchange their experiences on current population trends. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungary touts family policies as alternative to immigration

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit in Brussels, Tuesday, May 28, 2019. European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels to haggle over who should lead the 28-nation bloc's key institutions for the next five years after weekend elections shook up Europe's political landscape. (John Thys, Pool Photo via AP)

Link between Italy’s Salvini and Hungary’s Orban downplayed

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Ballots are being prepared ahead of Sunday's European Elections, in Rozzano, near Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 25, 2019. Some 400 million Europeans from 28 countries head to the polls from Thursday to Sunday to choose their representatives at the European Parliament for the next five years. (AP Photo/Antonio Calanni)

The Latest: Salvini says populists will control 150 EU seats

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President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Trump meets Hungary’s far-right prime minister

By DEB RIECHMANN and BALINT SZALAI - Associated Press

"We are proud to stand together with the United States on fighting against illegal migration, on terrorism and to protect and help the Christian communities around the world," said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump heaps praise on Viktor Orban of Hungary during White House visit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Donald Trump welcomes Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to the White House in Washington, Monday, May 13, 2019. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Donald Trump commends Viktor Orban, Hungary’s PM: ‘You’ve kept your country safe’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Viktor Orban Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Viktor Orban visit to Washington could be a new chapter for Hungary

By April H. Foley

FILE - In this Saturday, April 7, 2018, file photo, a man walks by an anti-migration billboard from the Hungarian government, on a street in Budapest, Hungary. With a campaign centered on stopping immigration, Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party is expected to continue its dominance in the European Parliament election at the end of May. While Hungary has been practically closed to immigrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa since Prime Minister Viktor Orban had border fences built in 2015, he continues to warn voters about the threat of a “migrant invasion” that would put at risk Europe’s Christian culture. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)

Hungary stems migrant flow, but issue remains big in EU vote

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, not pictured, during their meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse Thursday, April 25, in Beijing. (Parker Song/Pool Photo via AP)

Hungarian PM Orban, Trump to focus on migration in May talks

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Italian deputy premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini attends the inauguration ceremony of a new police station in Corleone, Sicily, Italy, Thursday, April 25, 2019. As most Italian leaders are holding observances on Liberation Day, which celebrates the end of the country's fascist dictatorship during World War II, the Interior Minister didn't take part at any official celebrations. (Francesco Militello Mirto)

Anti-migrant politicians bond at razor wire fence in Hungary

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the MCC Budapest Summit on Migration titled 'The Biggest Challenge of Our Time?' organized by the Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC) in Varkert Bazaar in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, March 23, 2019. Hungary hosts the global migration conference attended by many experts, decision-makers and diplomats in the field from around the world from March 22 to 24. (Tibor Illyes/MTI via AP)

Hungarian PM Orban launches campaign with anti-migrant plan

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Slovenia dismisses Hungary embassy protest of Orban cartoon

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a ceremony during the 171th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1848 revolution and war of independence against the Habsburg rule, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, March 15, 2019. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

EU’s center-right EPP bloc suspends Hungary PM Orban’s party

By PABLO GORONDI and RAF CASERT - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attends a ceremony during the 171th anniversary of the outbreak of the 1848 revolution and war of independence against the Habsburg rule, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, March 15, 2019. (Zsolt Szigetvary/MTI via AP)

The Latest: EU Parliament bloc suspends Hungary’s Fidesz

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File - In this Thursday, June 4, 2015, file photo, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, left, and group leader of the European People's Party, EPP, Manfred Weber, right, give a statement following their talks at the Hungarian Parliament in Budapest, Hungary. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP, File)

Hungary’s Orban to attend meeting on party’s possible ouster

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Hussars attend a ceremony during the 171th anniversary celebrations of the outbreak of the 1848 revolution and war of independence against the Habsburg rule in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, March 15, 2019. (Balazs Mohai/MTI via AP)

Hungarian PM says his people want new leaders for Europe

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 22, 2015 file photo, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, right, and European Council President Donald Tusk, left, greet Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a summit in Riga, Latvia. As the Hungarian prime minister’s conflicts with the European Union appear headed to a breaking point, calls are increasing for greater scrutiny of his government’s spending of EU funds. An opposition lawmaker in Hungary has gathered over 470,000 signatures to pressure Prime Minister Viktor Orban into joining the budding European Public Prosecutor’s Office as Orban’s Fidesz party may be suspended or expelled next week from the main center-right group in the European Parliament, it was announced Thursday, March 14, 2019 (AP Photo/Mindaugas Kulbis, File)

Hungarian PM Orban apologizes for insulting EU allies

By RAF CASERT and PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

EU center-right group to mull kicking out Orban’s party

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A billboard from a campaign of the Hungarian government showing EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and Hungarian-American financier George Soros with the caption &quot;You, too, have a right to know what Brussels is preparing to do.&quot; is displayed at a street in Budapest, Hungary, Feb. 26, 2019. The Hungarian government claims that EU leaders like Juncker, backed by Soros, want to bring mass migration into Europe. The billboard has been sprayed with graffiti saying &quot;Orban thief,&quot; in reference to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi)

Hungary’s Orban: European party opponents ‘useful idiots’

By DAVID RISING and PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press