Viktor Orban

EU leaders agree on joint borrowing to fund Ukraine, set aside plan to use Russian frozen assets

The leaders also gave the European Commission a mandate to continue work on a so-called reparations loan based on Russian immobilized assets, but that option proved unworkable for now.

UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks with European Council President Antonio Costa as they attend a European Union leaders' summit in Brussels, Belgium, December 18, 2025.
 (L to R): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu andHungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban (illustration).

Hungary: How politics and familiarity can make culture more open to Jews - interview

 L to R: Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, Orban's senior advisor and Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Relations of Hungary Zoltan Kovacs.

Hungary denies report PM Viktor Orban plans to introduce presidential system

ISRAEL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE Chair Yael Arad continues to strengthen Israel’s sporting ties worldwide.

Israel Int'l Olympic Committee member Arad heads to Hungary at request of Orban


Hungary's foreign ministry summons Ukrainian envoy over 'insults'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday said Orban feared Russia's influence and would have to choose between Moscow and the "other world."

vHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban visits the Ukraine-Hungary border where people cross into the country to flee the Russian massive military operation against Ukraine, in Beregsurany, Hungary, February 26, 2022.

Hungary’s Orban wins election, declares victory over enemies – including Soros and Zelensky

Orban’s Fidesz party won 53% percent of the vote, enjoying an 18-point lead on the runner-up.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is greeted on arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, July 18, 2018

Options are scarce for Hungary's Jews ahead of upcoming elections

Viktor Orban is in a tight race with a newly established alliance of opposition parties led by what is considered a neo-Nazi movement.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Comms. Min. delays sale of Israeli satellite company to Hungarian company over Orban ties

The communications ministry is avoiding selling Israeli company Spacecom to Hungarian company 4iG due to concerns that Hungarian PM Viktor Orban is closely tied to the company.

 Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel speaking at a conference.

Orbán’s fight against antisemitism - an official Hungarian response

Hungarian official defends Budapest against accusations of antisemitism.

HUNGARY’S PRIME Minister Viktor Orban arrives for a Visegrad Group meeting in Brussels.

Bennett speaks with Hungary’s Orban for first time

“It is my privilege to reconfirm our commitment to the safety and security of Israel and our support for Israel against the biased and unfair approach in the international arena,” Orban wrote.

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Hungary is Europe’s unlikely leader in kosher foie gras

Europe’s two kosher foie gras factories aren’t in France, nor in England – instead, they are both in Hungary, where there are few Jews and kosher food is scarce.

 Simon Carlier, Chef of "Solides" restaurant, cuts a "naturally fatty" foie gras, produced without gavage made from geese fed with bacteria to stimulate the fattening of the liver, avoiding force-feeding geese that is criticized by animal welfare activists, at a restaurant in Toulouse, France, Novem

Budapest’s new $30m Holocaust museum sits in limbo

The story of the museum, whose temporary name is the House of Fates, underlines how the legacy of the Holocaust keeps Jews from being fully integrated into Hungarian society.

 The House of Fates Holocaust museum, housed in a former railway station that deported Jews to concentration camps, seen in Budapest, Jan. 21, 2019.

Hungary PM Orban says he will not allow LGBTQ activists into schools

"The European Parliament and the European Commission want us to let LGBTQ activists and organizations into the kindergartens and schools. Hungary does not want that," Orban said on his Facebook page.

A demonstrator uses a megaphone during a protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the latest anti-LGBTQ law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021.

Hungary could be sanctioned over anti-LGBT+ law, warns EU equality chief

The move, which critics say wrongly conflates pedophilia with LGBT issues, triggered a mass rally outside parliament on Monday, while several rights groups have called on Fidesz to withdraw the bill.

Demonstrators protest against Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the latest anti-LGBTQ law in Budapest, Hungary, June 14, 2021.