The European Union proposed banning seaborne oil from Russia while delaying restrictions on imports from a key pipeline in an effort to satisfy Hungarian objections and clinch an agreement on a stalled sanctions package that would target Moscow for its war in Ukraine. The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, sent a revised proposal to
Issued on: 05/04/2022 – 20:14 The EU executive on Tuesday launched a never-used procedure against Hungary that could see the Hungarian government stripped of EU funding for falling short on anticorruption and flouting democratic standards. The move comes two days after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won re-election with an overwhelming majority, claiming his victory
Issued on: 03/04/2022 – 15:21 Hungarians flocked to polling stations on Sunday as voters in the Central European country faced a choice: take a chance on a diverse, Western-looking coalition of opposition parties, or grant nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban a fourth consecutive term after a campaign dominated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Hungary‘s
Orban, in his annual state of the nation speech, accused his opponents of preparing a return to financial mismanagement that pushed the nation to the edge of monetary collapse in 2008.” Hungarys interests are clear: initially of all, war needs to be avoided,” Orban said in his speech.( REUTERS). Hungarys Prime Minister Viktor Orban on
