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Over the past several weeks, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and French President Emmanuel Macron have been doing the groundwork to persuade Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to not block €50 billion of aid to Ukraine.

Viktor Orbán, Hungarian Prime Minister, unexpectedly expressed dissatisfaction with the statement by Dmytro Kuleba, Ukrainian Foreign Minister, who called him a pro-Hungarian politician. Source: European Pravda; Viktor Orbán on Kossuth Radio; Telex Details: Viktor Orbán angrily said that he was "not interested" in the opinion of the Ukrainian authorities.

Donald Trump is the only leader in the United States or Europe who is "strong enough" to put an end to the war in Ukraine, Viktor Orbán said.

It’s time for EU leaders to strike a deal — with or without taciturn Hungarian leader — to send cash to Ukraine and a message to the world.

To get approval for its budget, EU leaders could ask the Hungarian leader to once again leave the room.

The leaders of the 27 European Union countries sealed a deal Thursday to provide Ukraine with a new 50-billion-euro ($54 billion) support package.

The deal on Ukraine aid comes after a small group of leaders persuaded Hungary’s PM to drop his veto on the funding package.

The agreement comes as President Joe Biden's push to replenish wartime aid for Ukraine has stalled in Congress.

As EU leaders met in Brussels to discuss financial aid to Ukraine, outside, farmers were continuing days of protests that have seen tractors block traffic into the Belgian capital. Brussels police say around 1,300 tractors have descended on the city, which began by blocking traffic on the outskirts on Wednesday before moving into the EU district yesterday. The farmers’ grievances include burdensome EU regulations and competition from cheaper Ukrainian agricultural imports, for which trade...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has strongly criticized tactics used by Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, ahead of summit talks in Brussels. "I mean, there's no problem with so called 'Ukraine' fatigue. For sure, we have Orbán fatigue now here in Brussels," he said. "I can't understand, I can't accept this very strange and very egoistic game of Viktor Orbán." "This is for Victor Orbán to decide if Hungary is a part of our commu...