#Hungary

A German citizen was sentenced to eight years in prison by a Hungarian court on Wednesday for assaulting suspected far-right sympathisers in Budapest in 2023, as part of an anti-fascist group ...

Hungarian prosecutors have brought charges against Budapest’s liberal mayor, Gergely Karacsony, over his role in arranging an LGBTQ+ rights rally, and are seeking to impose a fine without holding ...

European Union countries on Monday gave their final approval to ban Russian gas imports by late 2027, making their vow to cut ties with their former top supplier legally binding, nearly ...

Hungary’s state-owned MVM group has signed a 5-year deal with U.S. energy company Chevron CVX.N for the supply of 2 billion cubic metres of liquefied natural gas, the ...

Hungary’s government has put state-run juvenile detention centres under direct police oversight, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Wednesday, trying to stem the political fallout ...

US President Donald Trump heaped praise on Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday at a White House meeting that glossed over differences about Hungary’s use of Russian oil ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he hopes to convince President Donald Trump that Hungary should be exempted from U.S. sanctions on Russian oil because of its ...

Hungary should not adopt the euro currency as the European Union is “disintegrating” and Hungary should not tie its fate closer to the bloc, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said ...

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened on Saturday to torpedo the European Union’s new seven-year budget unless Brussels unlocks all suspended EU funds. The nationalist leader has for ...

Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Hungary’s capital on Saturday as a banned LGBTQ+ rights rally swelled into a mass demonstration against the government. Crowds filled a square ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday there would be “legal consequences” for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event ...

Hungary’s parliament approved a bill on Tuesday that will start the country’s year-long withdrawal process from the International Criminal Court, which Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government said ...

Ukraine’s SBU security agency said on Friday it had uncovered a spy network run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about its defences, with Hungary responding to what ...

Ukraine’s SBU security agency said on Friday it had uncovered a spy network being run by the Hungarian state to obtain intelligence about Ukraine’s defences. In a statement, ...

Hungary’s president has signed a law proposed by Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ruling party that will ban LGBTQ+ communities from holding their annual Pride march, defying criticism by ...

Poland launched its presidency of the Council of the European Union on Friday mired in a diplomatic row with Hungary that underscored a deepening sense of political disunity across Europe ...

Hungary has granted political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is under investigation in Poland over accusations of misuse of public funds, drawing an angry reaction ...

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he would invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit Hungary, saying he would guarantee that an International Criminal Court arrest warrant against ...

By Krisztina Than As much of Europe frets over the return of Donald Trump, Hungary’s Viktor Orban is in a jubilant mood. “A much needed victory for the World!” ...

President Nikos Christodoulides is to travel to Hungary on Thursday to meet with leaders of other European countries at the European Political Community summit and an informal meeting of the ...

The wrecks of explosives-laden Nazi ships sunk in the River Danube during World War II have emerged near Serbia’s river port town of Prahovo, after a drought in July ...

The far-right favourites to win Austria’s next election have forged an alliance with Hungarian leader Viktor Orban that could deepen defiance of Brussels and threaten already fragile consensus over ...

Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos on Monday took a dig at Hungary, calling on the country – which currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Council – to uphold the principle of ...

European Union foreign ministers will evaluate how to respond to trips by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban to Russia and China and his country’s positioning over the EU’s ...