Tag: Viktor
What Hungary’s Viktor Orban did – and didn’t
Nick ThorpeBudapest, HungaryEPA/ShutterstockOn the surface, the Hungarian prime minister's trip was exactly what he went to Washington for: luxuriant praise and an exemption...
Viktor Orban’s dilemma – Russian oil or Trump’s favour
Nick ThorpeBudapest correspondentReuters"There is a war-opposing network in the world, with two focal points: one of power led by the US president and...
Viktor Orban’s playbook is admired abroad but weakening at home
Nick ThorpeBBC Budapest CorrespondentBBCHungarians have a popular saying: "Visszanyal a fagyi". Translation: "The ice-cream licks back." In other words, watch out, because what...
Hungary Changes Constitution to Mandate Two Genders
Emboldened by President Trump, Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary on Monday escalated his culture war against what he calls “gender madness,” after...
Fridrik Olafsson, Grandmaster Who Led Iceland’s Rise in Chess, Dies at...
Fridrik Olafsson, a chess grandmaster who helped make his native Iceland a bastion of the game, in part by defeating four world champions,...
Leaders Flex Muscles Against International Criminal Court
There aren’t a lot of countries Israel’s prime minister can visit without risking arrest. Which makes the red-carpet treatment Benjamin Netanyahu received in...
Netanyahu Arrives in Hungary, Finding a Rare Welcome in Europe
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Thursday began a visit to Hungary, confident that Europe’s self-declared bastion of “illiberal democracy” would ignore...
Who Is Marc Fogel? The American Teacher Caught in a Global...
Marc Fogel had traveled readily to and from Russia many times before his fateful last return to the country in August 2021. He...
Far-Right Leaders Rally in Spain to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap...
Trump Is Leading a Global Surge to the Right
At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism,...
