The Latest Breaking News from Viktor Orbán

Early claims Moscow would buckle quickly proved hubristic, yet Putin has also made miscalculations

Patriotic Russian opera opens in Budapest as first anniversary of war in Ukraine approaches

Hungary's inflation hits 24.5 percent—the highest in the European Union—and Orbán's price controls aren't helping.

As 2022 drew to a close, Hungary and the European Union made a modicum of progress in their long-running battle of wills. The (pro-Kremlin) Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán ended his opposition to sending European funds to support Ukraine in the hope of unlocking other withheld funding for his own…

Forget the deplorables and focus instead on the persuadables

US says it did not ‘enable’ Ukraine to strike inside Russia; Kremlin says no prospect of peace talks ‘at the moment’

A recent football match between Hungary and Greece – two countries that didn’t even qualify for the World Cup – would have been quickly forgotten were it not for the sartorial choices made by one of the spectators. Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán was in attendance, sporting a scarf with…

European Commission says Viktor Orbán’s government’s rule-of-law reforms do not go far enough

Russia launches 70 missiles in ‘large-scale attack on critical facilities’; cyber-attack hits European parliament after MEPs declare Russia a state sponsor of terrorism

G7 nears a Russian oil price cap; Ukraine setting up ‘invincibility centres’ with heat and power for winter

Colleagues come to defence of pair subjected to ‘coordinated attack’ over meeting last month