His position has given the former Warsaw Pact nation — which has a population only slightly larger than New Jersey — an outsized role in European diplomacy.

Hungary's prime minister has urged the European Union to start direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire in Ukraine and drop plans for a joint declaration at an extraordinary EU summit next week,

PM Orban included the new US government, Hungary, and several other European political forces in this group. Regarding the situation in Serbia, the prime minister remarked that anyone with an average interest in politics can see that since the patriots won in the United States, destabilization efforts in Central Europe have intensified.

While Europe is far away from such measures, Sir Keir Starmer has already promised to boost defence amid the threat from Russia. The projection for the ‘Eurussian Empire’ ends three months later, in September 2030, when Putin is supposed to announce a ‘special military operation’ on Nato.

Kristen Michal tells POLITICO that no country should shirk its obligations as U.S. casts doubt on NATO security.

Some on Europe's far right are torn about Trump's dressing-down of Zelenskiy and his seeming indifference to the perceived threat Putin poses.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said on Tuesday, March 4, that Brussels is waging war on those European leaders who openly support US president Donald Trump, including Romanian far-right politician Calin Georgescu,

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit at the Egmont Palace ... Orbán described Ukraine as a buffer zone between Russia and NATO countries, and predicted that, following a cessation of Moscow’s war, it would resume that role ...

France's President Emmanuel Macron hosted Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Paris on Wednesday in an attempt to get him onside with the majority of the European Union over support for Ukraine, before a vital EU defense summit taking place in Brussels on Thursday.

Donald Trump's White House confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is exposing differences within Europe's burgeoning far-right movement over his plan to end the war between Russia and Ukraine.