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3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Max Griera |Nicholas Vinocur |Csongor Körömi

Is Europe about to have another clamorous disruptor at the leaders’ top table? That’s certainly the fear in Brussels, as the hard-right ultranationalist George Simion stands a strong chance of winning the Romanian presidency on Sunday. European officials are particularly worried the 38-year-old firebrand will join the current duo of wreckers — Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and Slovakia’s Robert Fico — in seeking to scupper aid to Ukraine just as the EU wants to dial up pressure on Russia to end the war.

3 weeks ago | politico.eu | Matt Foster |Gordon Repinski |Csongor Körömi

Western politicians in the era of Joe Biden didn’t have “the balls” to fully back Ukraine, former United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Tuesday. Speaking to POLITICO at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit, Johnson said U.S. President Donald Trump deserved credit for sending lethal assistance to Ukraine during his first term in 2018 — even as he expressed fears about the direction of current peace talks with Russia.

1 month ago | politico.eu | Veronika Melkozerova |Csongor Körömi

KYIV — Ukrainian security services arrested two Ukrainian nationals it said were working for Hungarian military intelligence near the countries’ shared border. The agents were collecting information about numbers of troops, military bases, weapons and jets in western Ukraine’s Zakarpattia region, as well as poking around about how the local population would react if Hungarian soldiers crossed the border, said SBU spokesperson Artem Dehtiarenko in a statement Friday.

1 month ago | wiadomosci.onet.pl | Pieter Haeck |Csongor Körömi

W połowie marca Węgry zakazały marszów równości i zmieniły przepisy, zezwalając policji na używanie kamer biometrycznych do identyfikacji uczestników takich wydarzeń. Rząd twierdzi, że zrobił to w celu ochrony dzieci przed agendą LGBTQ+. Krytycy takiego rozwiązania uważają jednak, że Budapeszt celowo podsyca kampanię wymierzoną w osoby LGBTQ+, aby zdobyć poparcie skrajnej prawicy.

1 month ago | politico.eu | Pieter Haeck |Csongor Körömi

BRUSSELS — The European Union is looking into whether Hungary’s plan to deploy facial recognition technology to identify people attending LGBTQ+ Pride events is illegal. The move by the EU, reported exclusively by POLITICO, sets up the latest clash between Brussels and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s government as Hungary becomes an increasingly troublesome member of the bloc.