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Draining Putin’s coffers is possible — if Brussels really wants to.

The Fidesz party led by Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán has proposed the parliament to vote on ratification of Sweden’s NATO membership application on Feb. 26, leader of the faction Máté Kocsis announced on Facebook on Feb. 20.

The Hungarian prime minister, who championed the clean, moral, conservative life for years, was hoisted by his own petard. The question is whether he can ride out the storm once more.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson will travel to Budapest on Friday ahead of the hoped-for approval from the Hungarian parliament, the last holdout, for the Scandinavian nation's entry into NATO. At the invitation of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, Kristersson will visit the Hungarian capital, the Swedish government announced on Tuesday. The agenda for the two leaders includes talks about security and defence policy cooperation and preparations for Hungary's upcoming presidency ...

The prime minister in his state of the nation address said that President Katalin Novák’s resignation was “a great loss for Hungary” and thanked both Novák and

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sought to contain the political fallout of a presidential pardon scandal during an annual state of the nation address on Saturday, his first public appearance since Hungary's president, his ally, resigned a week ago. The nationalist Orbán is under intense pressure from multiple angles as his obstructionist conduct on the international stage has spurred growing frustration among his European Union and NATO allies. Meanwhile, widespread public...

Orbán and his Swedish counterpart have taken steps to “rebuild trust,” he said.

Marine Le Pen’s party eyes alliances with conservatives and the center-right after European election.

Hungary has blocked the approval of the 13th tranche of EU sanctions against Russia, according to unnamed officials speaking to Financial Times. Source: European Pravda, citing Financial Times Details: Sources said that during yesterday's meeting of EU ambassadors, Hungary was the only country to not support the 13th package of sanctions aimed at nearly 200 individuals and organisations from Russia, China, and other countries believed to be assisting Moscow in its war effort.

The ex-Fox News host is “planning to come to Serbia in mid-2024,” the country’s PM says.