NATO and Ukrainian officials are set to take part in emergency talks on Tuesday after Russia launched a hypersonic missile attack on the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The attack, which hit a military facility on Thursday, marks a significant escalation in the 33-month-long conflict. It has intensified fears that the war is entering a…
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday denounced the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he would defy it by inviting the Israeli leader to Hungary. In comments to state radio, Orbán accused the ICC of “interfering in an ongoing conflict for…
Speaking to journalists in Budapest where he was attending a gathering of European leaders, Zelenskyy said that while Ukraine sought a “fair” end to the war, rushing into a ceasefire or a peace deal with Moscow would lead to a bad outcome for Kyiv. “He [Trump] wants this war to be finished,” Zelenskyy said through…
After POLITICO reached out to Babiš and his ANO party for comment, his right-hand man, ANO Vice Chair Karel Havlíček, replied that “it’s nonsense” to say the party has moved toward the far right. Dita Charanzová told POLITICO that “it was clear from the developments in the Czech Republic that the ANO movement would push nationalistic…
On substance, the EU had little to offer Kyiv. With Hungary objecting, the bloc failed to unblock frozen Russian assets as loans for Ukraine. Zelenskyy also met with Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, another increasingly pro-Russia country like Hungary. His Brussels tour began in the European Council. Despite a worsening situation on the…