Viktor Orbán

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticized Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán for his phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin regarding the war in Ukraine.

“No one should promote their own image at the expense of unity (…) There can be no discussions about the war Russia is waging against Ukraine without Ukraine,” he wrote in a post on the X platform.

Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni met her Hungarian counterpart Victor Orbán this afternoon at the Palazzo Quiji government palace in Rome.

Hungary is confident it will not be impacted by the impending halt in natural gas transit through Ukraine, thanks to the TurkStream pipeline, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has stated.

The agreement on natural gas transit via Ukraine is set to expire at the beginning of the new year, raising supply concerns for European countries reliant on Russian energy.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Friday that he would extend an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Hungary, assuring that Hungary would not recognize or enforce the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Netanyahu.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Europe has boosted its military production by 30%. In 2023, European defense spending reached a total of 326 billion euros, as reported by EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Josep Borrell.

BUDAPEST - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday evening the friendship between Hungary and Serbia was more than an ordinary friendship and that it had been forged in difficult times, which made it much stronger.

BUDAPEST - Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said on Thursday Europe must realise that Serbia did not need the EU but that the EU needed Serbia, as well as that Europe had problems with growth and dynamics and that only new EU member states, including Serbia as the best candidate, could lend it a new impetus.

BUDAPEST  - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in Budapest political and economic ties between Serbia and Hungary were increasingly deep and that the two countries had signed 173 bilateral agreements to date, including seven new ones inked earlier in the afternoon.

BUDAPEST - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Thursday in Budapest a high-speed rail line between Belgrade and Budapest would be launched by March 2026 at the latest.