Hungary could face a fresh dispute with major European Union member states over its decision to stay out of a proposed EUR 45 billion loan for Ukraine, as disagreements over Kyiv’s financing threaten to spill into negotiations on the bloc’s next long-term budget.

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Could Hungary’s former prime minister go from criticising the United Nations to leading it? A reported US-backed proposal involving Russia and China has raised questions about Orbán’s international ambitions, his past clashes with the UN and what such a move could mean for Hungarian politics.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Washington has encouraged former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to enter the race for the United Nations’ top job, with Russia and China reportedly open to backing his candidacy. No final decision has been made, and Orbán has declined to comment.

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Hungary is set to receive EUR 254.1 million (more than HUF 92 billion) in Norwegian and EEA funding after negotiations between Budapest and the donor countries were concluded. The agreement marks a major step towards restoring a funding programme that was suspended in Hungary in 2021.

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Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar is due to hold his first official one-to-one meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, following a major breakthrough on Hungarian-language education in Ukraine.

Magyar announced the planned meeting in a Facebook post on Wednesday as he travelled to Brussels for a key European Union summit. Before the summit, he is also scheduled to meet the leaders of the Visegrád Four countries and attend several other high-level discussions.

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The EU Council has approved the European Commission’s proposal to end the rule-of-law procedure against Hungary, opening the way for EUR 4.2 billion in frozen funding and restoring access to Erasmus+ and Horizon Europe for foundation-run universities.

Hungary is set to regain access to EUR 4.2 billion (more than HUF 1,500 billion) in frozen EU funding after member states approved the closure of a long-running procedure over concerns about the rule of law and the protection of the bloc’s financial interests.

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The Ukrainian parliament’s adoption of the law on education in minority languages is an important step forward for the educational rights of Hungarians in Transcarpathia, Ukraine, the foreign minister said in a Facebook post on Monday.

Foreign Minister Anita Orbán stressed in her post that the Ukrainian parliament’s decision was an important step forward, but the process had not yet been concluded.

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Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has thanked Hungary for reportedly giving the “green light” to the opening of two more clusters in Ukraine’s European Union accession negotiations.

Sybiha said on Wednesday that Hungary had supported further steps concerning the second and third negotiating clusters at the level of the EU’s Committee of Permanent Representatives (COREPER).

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The European Commission has proposed a 15-year probation period for future EU member states, with countries potentially facing the loss of voting rights or funding if they breach democratic standards.

The plan, outlined by European Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, is designed to give the bloc faster tools to respond if a newly admitted country undermines the rule of law, democracy or the EU’s principle of sincere cooperation. Kos explicitly invoked the former Hungarian prime minister, saying:

“No more Viktor Orbán.”

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Hungary can only be a truly European country if it remains true to itself, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said in Gyula on Tuesday, 6 October, at a commemoration marking the 177th anniversary of the execution of the Martyrs of Arad.

Magyar delivered his speech at the memorial to the military officers near Gyula Castle. The event was also attended by Hunor Kelemen, president of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ), and Péter Faragó, the organisation’s president in Arad County.

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