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For the second time in a month, all European Union nations but Hungary signed a joint statement Thursday backing Ukraine.
Hungary has passed a new anti-LGBTQ+ law that bans Pride events and allows authorities to use facial recognition software to identify those attending the festivities.
Hungaryโs ruling coalition is continuing its crackdown on the countryโs LBGTQ+ community.
President Donald Trumpโs supporters are echoing some of the rhetoric and actions that elsewhere have preceded attacks on the judiciary as the courts deliver a series of setbacks to his dramatic attempt to change the federal government without congressional approval.
When Republicans are looking for a political bogeyman, they point to liberal megadonor George Soros.
European Union leaders are trumpeting their endorsement of a plan to free up hundreds of billions of euros to inject into their defense budgets.
The leaders of Britain and France are spearheading a desperate diplomatic drive to shore up Europeโs security, bolster Ukraineโs defenses and ensure the Trump administration doesnโt seek a ceasefire on terms that reward Moscow for invading its neighbor.
During his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has worked to tear down the federal government and attack long-standing institutions.
European leaders have pledged to stand by Ukraine in the wake of the contentious Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
U.S. conservatives have looked to Hungary's Viktor Orbรกn as an inspiration for a right-wing America, and the prime minister has become a close ally of President Donald Trump.
Alternative for Germany has surged to the best showing by a far-right party since World War II in the national election and became the strongest political force in parts of the country.
President Donald Trump has unleashed chaos by distraction around the world with a blitz of executive orders and ideas.
The European Union has agreed to prolong for 6 months a raft of sanctions aimed at depriving Russia of funds to finance its war against Ukraine.
Hungary wants the European Union to intervene in a gas dispute it has with Ukraine, a potential sign of friction in the blocโs upcoming discussions over renewing sanctions against Russia.
Hungary's prime minister says sanctions issued by the United States last week against a powerful Hungarian official have โstrengthenedโ that officialโs standing within the populist government.
Croatiaโs opposition-backed President Zoran Milanoviฤ, a critic of the European Union and NATO, overwhelmingly won reelection for another five-year term on Sunday, defeating a candidate from the ruling conservative party in a runoff vote.
A senior Hungarian government official close to Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn was on Tuesday hit with U.S. sanctions for his alleged involvement in corruption in Hungary.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted Slovakiaโs prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscowโs all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
German authorities say they received tipoffs last year about the suspect in a car attack at a Christmas market in Magdeburg as more details emerged about the five people killed.
Hungary has given political asylum to a Polish opposition politician who is wanted on suspicions of corruption.
The past year has been both a glass half empty and half full for the world's democracies.
When Donald Trump takes office as president for a second time, many journalists anticipate a hostile climate toward them and their work.
The president of the International Criminal Court has lashed out at Russia for targeting its prosecutors and judges over the panelโs investigation of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and slammed comments by a U.S. senator threatening the court.
Donald Trumpโs personnel choices for his new Cabinet and White House reflect his signature positions on immigration and trade but also a range of viewpoints and backgrounds that raise questions about what ideological anchors might guide his Oval Office encore.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn says he will defy an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hungaryโs foreign minister is criticizing U.S. President Joe Bidenโs decision to authorize Ukraine to use missiles supplied by Washington to strike deeper inside Russia.
Anti-government protesters in Serbia are demanding arrests and the resignations of top officials over the collapse of a railway station roof that killed 14 people in a northern city.
Hungary's prime minister is predicting that Donald Trump's new administration will abandon U.S. support for Ukraine.
Around 50 European leaders have reassessed their trans-Atlantic relations at a special summit in Budapest, in the hope that Donald Trump's second U.S. presidency will avoid the strife and political pitfalls of his first.
Hungaryโs fiery, right-wing leader says that Donald Trumpโs victory will help his own battle against immigration and multiculturalism and restore traditional family values.
Dozens of European leaders will be assessing a new global outlook during a one-day summit in Hungaryโs capital.
The influence of nationalist and populist parties on the European Union will be on public display next week when lawmakers vet new members of the bloc's increasingly powerful executive branch.
Hundreds of people lit candles and left flowers on Saturday to commemorate 14 people who were killed when a concrete canopy crashed at the entrance of a railway station in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has given a boost to Georgiaโs ruling party.
A new bookโs assertion that former President Donald Trump may have had as many as seven private phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin since leaving the White House has refocused attention on their politically fraught relationship and on Trumpโs sustained dialogue with world leaders as he seeks a return to power.
An activist and municipal councilor for a Hungarian opposition party disrupted a news conference in the French city of Strasbourg, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn was laying out plans for Hungaryโs presidency of the European Union.
One of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกnโs closest aides is facing backlash over statements he made suggesting that Hungary, unlike Ukraine, would not have defended itself against a Russian invasion.
The European Union has begun the process of clawing back hundreds of millions of euros in funds meant to go Hungary.
Soldiers have dropped sandbags from military helicopters to reinforce river embankments and evacuated residents as the worst flooding in years spreads across Central Europe.
Former President Donald Trump has praised Hungary's autocratic leader, further fanning concerns that Trump embraces anti-democratic forces around the world.
As soon as Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn assumed Hungary's presidency of the European Union in July, one thing was clear: he increasingly stands for everything the EU opposes.
Even before JD Vance got into politics, he has been clear about his concerns regarding birth rates.
JD Vance repeatedly expressed alarm about declining birth rates as he launched his political career with a bid for the U.S. Senate in Ohio.
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has extended his party's control over the media, directly affecting informed democratic participation.
After almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraineโs difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as its vital support from the United States is increasingly at the mercy of changing political winds.
Some European Union leaders are protesting what they see as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกnโs misuse of the blocโs rotating presidency by boycotting a meeting hosted by Hungary.
The European Commission says that the commission president and other top EU officials will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary while the country holds the EUโs rotating presidency.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has made a Trumpian vow to โMake Europe Great Againโ during his countryโs six-month presidency of the European Union.
Hungaryโs nationalist prime minister, Viktor Orbรกn, has traveled to Florida and met with former President Donald Trump following a NATO summit in Washington.
Far-right parties from 12 countries, including Franceโs National Rally and Hungaryโs ruling Fidesz, have joined forces to form a new bloc in the European Parliament.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on world powers to help Russia and Ukraine resume direct dialogue during a meeting with Hungaryโs Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has visited Moscow for a rare meeting by a European leader with Russian President Vladimir Putin and discussed peace proposals for Ukraine.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has made his first visit to neighboring Ukraine since Russiaโs full-scale invasion.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn has presented a new alliance with Austriaโs far-right Freedom Party and the main Czech opposition party, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest right-wing group in the European Parliament.
When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on July 1, many politicians in Brussels will have the same thing on their minds: whether populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn will use the role to further his reputation as the blocโs main spoiler.
Mark Rutte has gotten to know a thing or two about finding consensus among fractious coalition partners over the course of more than a dozen years at the top of Dutch politics.
Hungaryโs populist government says its presidency of the European Union will be held under the motto โMake Europe Great Again.โ.
The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded.
Tractors are rumbling through the streets again days ahead of the four-day European Union election.
Donald Trump attacked the U.S. criminal justice system after his historic guilty verdict.
A crowd of tens of thousands has gathered in Hungaryโs capital in a show of strength behind Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn.
While Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni adopts a reassuring Western-allied foreign policy, cultural wars at home are preserving her far-right credentials heading into European parliamentary elections.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn is pushing back against some NATO proposals that would allow Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike targets within Russia.
A rising political newcomer in Hungary is seeking to capitalize on a scandal that rocked the party of the country's long-serving prime minister, Viktor Orbรกn, and a slumping economy to challenge the leader in upcoming European Union elections and beyond.
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico was gravely injured in an apparent assassination attempt that rocked the small country and the rest of Europe just weeks before an election.
Most countries in the European Union are making efforts to โde-riskโ their economies from perceived threats posed by China.
Hungary and China have signed agreements to deepen their economic and cultural cooperation during a visit to the Central European country by Chinese President Xi Jinping, a trip meant to solidify Chinaโs economic footprint in the region.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will spend most of his five-day tour in Europe this week in two small countries at the continentโs eastern half.
Ukraine, trade and investment are expected to dominate Chinese leader Xi Jinping's first trip to Europe in five years, which starts in France on Monday.
Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while heโs in New York for his criminal hush money trial.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn is urging voters to reject mainstream political parties in European Union elections in June for their failure of leadership.
European Union leaders are vowing to ramp up sanctions against Iran as concern grows that the country's unprecedented attack on Israel could fuel a wider war in the Middle East.
Belgian police have shut down a gathering of far-right politicians and supporters, citing concerns about public order.
Protesters in Slovakia have formed a human chain around the countryโs public television and radio building in anger over a takeover plan by the government whose populist, pro-Russia prime minister recently labeled several private media outlets his enemies.
A former Hungarian government insider has released an audio recording that he says is proof of official misconduct within high levels of the government of populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn.
Brazilโs Federal Police on Monday launched an investigation into former President Jair Bolsonaroโs two-night stay at the Hungarian embassy in Brasilia, amid widespread speculation from his opponents that he may have been attempting to evade arrest.
Over 30 nations from around the world have pledged to boost nuclear energy to help achieve a climate-neutral globe while providing countries an added sense of security independence.
Donald Trump will lead the GOP in a third consecutive presidential election after clinching the nomination Tuesday.
Former President Donald Trump has met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn, a conservative populist whose crackdowns in Hungary have sparked criticism that he's eroding that country's democracy.
Democratic voters in suburban Minneapolis seem far less interested in sending President Joe Biden a message of dissatisfaction with him than they are in keeping Republican Donald Trump from returning to the White House.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbรกn will visit former President Donald Trump next week at Mar-a-Lago, according to a person briefed on the plans.
The prime ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia says the four Central European countries are deeply divided over Russia's war against Ukraine and how to resolve the conflict.
Hungary's parliament has ratified Swedenโs bid to join NATO, ending more than 18 months of delays that frustrated the alliance as it sought to expand in response to Russiaโs war in Ukraine.
The prime ministers of Hungary and Sweden have concluded a defense industry agreement that will expand Budapestโs fleet of Swedish-built fighter jets.
