Hungary has vetoed a €50 billion ($54 billion) European financial aid package to Ukraine, just days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy failed to persuade U.S. lawmakers to approve an additional $61 billion for the war-torn country. The aid was vetoed by Hungarian
Hungary Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he does not want his country to copy the “failed migration policies” of Western Europe that he suggests led to terrorism, gang wars and other Western violence. In a post on X, the platform formerly known
Hungary has asked the European Union’s executive to open a legal procedure against Bulgaria over a tax it recently imposed on Russian natural gas passing through its territory, a government minister said on Friday. Bulgaria believes the tax, which it levied in
Minors are not allowed to attend a prestigious press photo exhibition in Hungary due to LGBTQ content. A set of photographs depicting an elderly LGBTQ community in the Philippines was judged inappropriate for children due to several of the subjects dressing in
Delegates at a gathering of EU leaders were forced to drop a declaration on migration that diplomats are understood to have been preparing for weeks. Poland and Hungary forced delegates to remove the passage in a last-minute row over migration during a
In 2019, a river cruise boat collided with a smaller tourist boat in Hungary’s Danube River and caused 27 deaths, mostly South Korean tourists. Yuriy Chaplinsky, the Ukrainian captain of the river cruise boat Viking Sigyn, was found responsible for the collision
A small propeller-driven plane crashed during an airshow in central Hungary on Sunday killing two people and seriously injuring three people on the ground, police said. The fatal accident at the Börgönd air show in Fejér county happened at about 3.20 p.m.
Police have arrested a Norwegian citizen in Hungary on suspicion that he was planning an extremist attack modeled after a 2011 massacre in Norway that killed 77 people, authorities said Tuesday. The National Investigation Office of the Hungarian police said the 45-year-old
After a rocket attack in eastern Ukraine, half of Rambo’s face was mangled and bloody. Shrapnel had ravaged the right side of his head, and it was uncertain if he would survive. The 3-year-old German shepherd, who had accompanied Ukrainian soldiers on
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said Ukraine cannot win the war as he reiterated his country will not provide Kyiv with military aid. The Hungarian leader said sanctions against Russia are also not working and the solution cannot be found on the