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The EU is developing a plan to sabotage Hungary's economy unless Budapest agrees to negotiate a new aid package for Ukraine. Source: British newspaper The Financial Times, citing an internal EU document Details: The FT reported that Brussels intends to collapse the Hungarian forint [currently HUF 1 = US$0,0028] and reduce Hungary's investment attractiveness in order to harm "jobs and growth" in the country's economy.

Serhiy Marchenko tells The Globe and Mail the country is on a financial precipice as continued funding from its allies has come under question

The Magyar Nemzet newspaper, part of the Hungarian prime minister's informal media empire, has published an article criticising the situation with Ukrainian media prior to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó's visit to Uzhhorod.

A ballooning defense budget and dwindling international aid could push Ukraine’s war-torn economy to the brink.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has approved Sweden’s accession into the Western security alliance NATO, Sweden’s Prime Minister announced on Thursday, “Welcome Türkeiye’s approval of the ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession. With this, a key milestone has been reached in Sweden’s path towards NATO membership,” Ulf Kristersson posted on X, the platform formerly known as…

Leaders of the EU have expressed their willingness to deprive Hungary of its voting rights if Prime Minister Viktor Orbán blocks the approval of €50 billion in Ukraine-bound financial aid at the summit on 1 February.

Leaders may consider invoking the “nuclear option” of kicking Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán out of the EU voting process.

The tie-up of far-right parties and furious farmers is supercharging populist parties in the run-up to an EU-wide election in June.

European Council president makes dramatic U-turn after his candidacy sparked major backlash.

Just four weeks before the second anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the parliament of Turkey, dominated by the Justice and Development Party of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, finally ratified Sweden’s entry into NATO Tuesday. Assuming that the other holdout, Erdoğan’s buddy, the very illiberal and friend of Putin Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary, also concurs, this a ...