Ukraine’s last two EU negotiation blocks stay shut as Hungary’s new government keeps Orbán’s veto
Budapest unblocked half of the remaining negotiations after Ukraine changed its minority-language rules, then said no to the rest.
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Ukraine files a minority-schooling bill, and Hungary agrees to unblock two of its EU-accession clusters
The Rada plans to vote on 12 October, and under the deal, Hungary is to stop blocking two EU-accession clusters once the bill is law.
After years of disputes, Hungary finds common ground with Ukraine—on honoring Soviet deportations from Zakarpattia
A Rada resolution honors thousands who died in a Soviet deportation campaign targeting Hungarian- and German-speaking Zakarpattia residents.
Hungary sent commandos to seize Ukraine’s $82 million bank convoy. Its investigators now say they have found no crime
Hungarian investigators found the seized cash and gold came from a lawful bank deal. Attention has now turned to officials behind the raid.
Hungary swapped its pro-Russian prime minister. Yet it is still slowing Ukraine’s path to the EU.
Hungary has allowed two stages of Ukraine’s EU talks to open while holding up the other four. Péter Magyar is no Viktor Orbán, but years of anti-Ukraine politics might still make blocking Kyiv safer than helping it.
Hungary votes to remove Orbán-loyal president as Magyar dismantles Fidesz system
The constitutional amendment targets Tamás Sulyok and caps lawmakers’ tenure at 12 years. Magyar’s break with Orbán remains sharper at home than on Ukraine.
Voted out and facing investigators, Orbán could reach for UN cover, sources say
Hungary's new government has vowed to probe his regime, and a senior UN role's immunity would blunt that threat, VSquare reports.
€90 billion for Ukraine—two-thirds of the 2026–27 budget gap—clears Brussels Wednesday
EU ambassadors vote Wednesday on the final step. Sanctions and military aid remain blocked.
Druzhba pipeline restart this week after Russian attack could unlock €90 billion in EU aid for Ukraine
Hungary's precondition is being met, funding should follow.
Future Hungarian PM Magyar makes first statements on EU’s €90 billion loan for Ukraine
The loan, not the aid, was blocked by Viktor Orban's government.
Hungary robbed $82 million from Ukraine’s state bank, now it has fabricated subtitles on a toilet-office joke video to justify it
They took a year-old private video from an illegally seized phone of couriers joking about preparing documents in a public restroom and added a phrase about "corruption money" that was never spoken to the subtitles.
Fico joins Orbán in demanding the EU lift Russian energy sanctions — a week before Hungary’s election that could end Orbán’s 16-year rule
After a call with Orbán on 4 April, Slovakia's PM claimed Brussels must immediately reopen dialogue with Russia and restore Druzhba pipeline flows — revenues that directly fund Moscow's war against Ukraine.
Szijjártó told Russia’s deputy minister he’d removed 72 entities from EU sanctions — then asked Moscow to write his arguments for removing more
The detail, buried in leaked transcripts from a call with Russia's deputy energy minister, reveals the full scope of Hungary's collusion: not just delisting oligarchs on request, but seeking Kremlin-authored justifications for Budapest's own EU lobbying.
Ukraine runs out of war funding in June—blocked from outside, inside, and below
Hungary is blocking billions from outside. Parliament from inside. And the government tried to fire the anti-corruption official the EU requires to stay.
EU summit backs Ukraine’s €90 billion loan and opens all accession clusters — but Orbán and Fico still block the money
25 EU leaders formally endorsed Ukraine's loan disbursement by early April and invited the Council to open all EU accession clusters without delay. Hungary and Slovakia declined to support the conclusions.
Russia faked Ukrainian phone numbers to threaten Hungarians in Ukraine — to help Orbán win Hungary’s election, Kyiv says
Callers impersonating Ukrainian police demanded ethnic Hungarians leave Ukraine and threatened violence, but the SBU traced every call to Russian territory.
Hungary returns Oschadbank’s armored vehicles damaged—cash and gold remain seized
Budapest handed back the collectors' cars with documented equipment failures—while keeping $40 million and €35 million in cash and 9 kg of gold.
Hungary’s opposition Tisza still leads the election, but the gap is closing—and a win may not be enough for Ukraine
New polling trims Tisza's advantage to 14 points. What a Magyar victory would—and wouldn't—mean for Ukraine.
Fico: “Slovakia is ready to take over the baton from Hungary, if necessary” — on blocking EU’s Ukraine loan and Russia sanctions
The current go-to blocker of both the loan and sanctions is Hungarian PM Orbán, who may lose the April election.
Putin sends election fixers to Budapest to keep Orbán’s Kremlin veto alive
A GRU-linked cell embedded in the Russian Embassy is running Moscow's Moldova playbook on Hungarian soil—and the stakes for Ukraine could not be higher