Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened on Friday to block the next rollover of EU sanctions against Russia unless ...

The European Union will moved forward with a renewal on Russian sanctions after a deal was struck with Hungary, according to ...

The European Union has agreed to prolong for 6 months a raft of sanctions aimed at depriving Russia of funds to finance its ...

The EU has renewed sanctions against Russia despite Hungary's initial objections, following assurances on energy-related ...

The Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban, has once again threatened to veto the European Union's sanctions against Russia.

Budapest then cited its complaints about Ukraine ending a transit deal that brought Russian gas to Hungary. At a meeting of EU ambassadors on Monday, the European Commission presented a statement ...

Before relenting, Budapest had threatened to allow billions of dollars to flow back to the Kremlin in a row over energy imports.

Hungary avoided a clash with the EU thanks to a last-minute deal that secures its access to Russian gas at a closed-door ...

Meanwhile, he claimed EU sanctions against Russia for its war in Ukraine had cost Hungary 19 billion euros ($20 billion) since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. He did not ...

But Hungary's Orban, a right-wing populist and ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has threatened to "pull the handbrake" on EU sanctions if Brussels does not persuade Ukraine to reopen a ...

Hungary has backed down from its veto threat and on Monday allowed the renewal of EU sanctions against Russia for an additional six months, bringing to a close the short-lived political saga that ...