Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has sold his brand of politics as conservatism. But what's really happening there is corruption benefitting oligarchs, says David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary.

Speaking at an annual State of the Nation address in Budapest to a closed circle of party members and supporters, Orbán described Ukraine as a buffer zone between Russia and NATO countries, and predicted that,

Trump has mused publicly about his fondness for Viktor Orbán, Hungary’s “elected” dictator, and how he accomplished commanding control over his people.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has demanded the EU begin “direct discussions with Russia on a ceasefire” in the war against Ukraine. Orban also said he opposed efforts

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary, about that country's democratic decay under Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

The near-total freeze on foreign aid from the United States has many vocal detractors, but it also has passionate backers—and nowhere more so than in Hungary, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s self-styled “illiberal democracy” has made him a darling of the global far right and an ally of President Donald Trump.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has long been a headache for European leaders who try to take a hard line on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Orban, a long-time Putin ally,

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke about his meetings in Paris, relations between France and Hungary and the future of the European Union in an interview with reporter Daniel Bohar posted on Facebook.

French president Emmanuel Macron greeted Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on the steps of the Élysée Palace in Paris, for a meeting about the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

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.

The country does not have to tolerate Pride marching through downtown Budapest,” Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, said at a Thursday news briefing.

Since patriots won in the United States, efforts to destabilize Central Europe have intensified, Viktor Orban stated in a video posted on social media. According to the prime minister, Serbia, Slovakia, and Hungary are in the crosshairs, and the chaos in the Serbian parliament is a consequence of this.