While Brussels promises to cut Moscow’s energy dependence, countries like France and Spain continue buying Russian gas as if nothing had changed.
As oil and gas prices surge again, Belgium has become the first European country to openly admit it can no longer sustain another round of large-scale aid.
The Hungarian prime minister’s defeat means resistance to Brussels’ policies can no longer depend on a single government.
The Commission wants to open all negotiating chapters immediately and turn Kyiv’s accession into the next great leap in European integration.
As EU leaders welcome Hungary’s new government, allies of the former prime minister say little has changed beneath the surface.
The economy is reopening, but the regime is intact, and the promised path to democracy looks increasingly distant.
The Socialist government plans to legalise over half a million people, with the total likely to rise over time.
Less than 24 hours after the Hungarian election, the President of the European Commission called for using the “momentum” to eliminate the ability of member states to veto any decision they do not consider fair.
With Gulf shipping routes under threat, Europe rejects Washington’s approach while remaining heavily reliant on the very flows the U.S. seeks to control.
The removal of Brussels’ most persistent opponent is set to accelerate plans to curb national vetoes, expand EU borrowing, and tighten control over member states.
For years, it was claimed that Viktor Orbán had turned Hungary into an autocracy where political alternation was impossible. Last night’s election proved the opposite.
“If the European Union starts to consider democratically elected governments illegitimate simply because they do not share the dominant political line in Brussels, then the problem is no longer Viktor Orbán.”