Tag: Orban

Hungarian leader blocks 50 billion euro Ukraine aid package after membership talks agreed

By Max Delany and Dave Clark BRUSSELS, Dec 15, 2023 (AFP) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday blocked 50 billion euros ($55 billion) in EU aid for Ukraine, after leaders side-stepped his opposition to agree to open talks with Kyiv on joining the bloc. A crunch summit in Brussels broke up after a day of wrangling as the Hungarian authoritarian leader refused to greenlight funding to help prop up Ukraine’s government over the […]

Hungary says EU’s Russia oil ban proposal crosses ‘red line’

  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AFP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday blasted European Commission head Ursula von der Leyen for “attacking” EU unity with a plan to ban Russian oil, saying it crosses a red line and has been sent back. “The European Commission president, intentionally or unintentionally, has attacked the European unity that had been worked out,” Orban said on state radio. “From the first moment we made clear that there will be […]

Ignoring critics, Trump to welcome Hungary’s Orban to White House

by Francesco FONTEMAGGI WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Monday will host Hungarian leader Viktor Orban — an anti-immigration firebrand and one of his few European admirers — at the White House, despite criticism of the visit at home. Orban’s one-on-one talks with Trump will offer the Euroskeptic prime minister a choice podium less than two weeks before the start of European Union parliamentary elections in which far-right parties are expected […]