1 day ago · Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice. ... These concerns have constrained the central bank from reducing its base rate below the 6.5 percent first reached in September. ... Viktor Orbán believes that having Donald Trump back in the White House will be a catalyst for global economic growth, in large part because the U ...

3 days ago · Speeches / Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 10th Lámfalussy Conference. SHARE. Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the 10th Lámfalussy Conference. 27/01/2025; ... he took on the lion’s share in ensuring that the accession of the Central European countries to the European Union went as smoothly as possible. He was so ready ...

6 days ago · With a key deadline set to expire next week, Viktor Orbán and his deputies have raised the spectre of vetoing EU sanctions against Russia, a move which would upend the bloc's foreign policy.

Oct 23, 2024 · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has claimed in a recent speech that the European Union (EU) is trying to overthrow his government and...

Sep 19, 2024 · Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is skeptical that his country will receive timely help from the EU following widespread flooding across Central Europe this week. “With all due respect, if we waited for Brussels to bail us out, we’d be up to our necks in water,” the prime minister said at his government’s Thursday morning press conference .

Nov 12, 2024 · From the very outset of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has systematically disrupted European decisionmaking. His unpredictable positions on geopolitical issues and confrontative comments …

Jul 27, 2024 · Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says the European Union is sliding toward oblivion in a rambling anti-Western speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order.”

Dec 5, 2024 · Two things are certain: Death, and that Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party will win. That’s the way it’s been in Hungarian elections for the past 18 years, with every opinion poll confirming that Orbán, Central Europe’s populist strongman, will keep his job.

Oct 23, 2024 · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed in a speech on Wednesday that the European Union seeks to topple his government and install a puppet regime in the Central European country, an...

Feb 13, 2024 · Viktor Orban accused George Soros's civil society groups of "trying secretly and with foreign money to influence Hungarian politics", and the Soros-founded Central European University, set...