EU and Ukraine

06.December 2025 KS

Hungarian veto on aid to Ukraine

Will the European Union find a way to help Ukraine after Hungary vetoes the issuance of Eurobonds to support the war-torn country

Nobel Prize for Literature: Laszlo Krasnahorkai

16.October 2025 Marko Cudic

The Nobel laureate next door

László Krasnahorkai is the second Hungarian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in less than a quarter of a century. The first Hungarian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize was Imre Kertes, in 2002. This is, therefore, an exceptional recognition for the great literature of a small nation

Benjamin Netanyahu and Viktor Orban

International law

03.April 2025. TS

Hungary is closing the door to the International Criminal Court

Hungary announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court just hours after Viktor Orban was visited by Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom the ICC issued an arrest warrant. The move fits into a broader pattern of the global right increasingly rejecting supranational institutions

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban

The war in Ukraine

05.July 2024 SZ

Orban with Putin: A surprise meeting in Moscow

Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman of the Kremlin, stated that Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban will discuss the war in Ukraine, and Orban received a lot of criticism due to his sudden visit to Moscow.

Asylum applications

24.June 2024 DW

Orban: First, we check migrants at the embassy in Belgrade

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán boasted that Hungary has already in some way exported the asylum procedure by checking migrants first in Serbia. That's how migrants are piling up in Serbia that Hungary doesn't want