Orban

A major scandal rocked opposition parties as it was confirmed that former PM candidate Peter Marki-Zay's Movement for Hungary and some opposition-allied organisations received funds totalling 4 billion forints (10 million euros) from abroad before the April 2022 election.

Elsewhere, Pesti TV, an aggressively right-wing television station intended for young viewers, was also closed during the summer.

(L-R) European Commission Executive Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis, EU Commissioner for Budget Johannes Hahn and European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders, announce the freezing of funds to Hungary  in Brussels, Belgium, 30 November 2022. EPA-EFE/OLIVIER HOSLET Dual-track approach

"We do not worry about those who attack Hungary from the dark, somewhere from the towers in Brussels," he said in a speech on the occasion of the national holiday marking the 66th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution against the USSR in 1956.

Today he had a series of meetings with numerous leaders.

Vui presented Orban with the Order of the Republic of Serbia on a Grand Collar for exceptional services in developing and strengthening peaceful cooperation and friendly relations between the two countries.
Regarding the words of Srdjan Milivojevi, that his son and brother will be found like Gaddafi, Vui says that the opposition is powerless to win with arguments.

Orbn was met at the airport by Finance Minister Sinia Mali.

"Orban is intoxicated by his own success," sighs Istvan Szent-Ivanyi, a former Hungarian state secretary and ambassador, referring to the governing party's landslide election victory. "Frankly, given the current situation, I expect his rhetoric to get even sharper, with no signs of changing his pro-Russian and anti-EU line."

"We have managed to defend our utility cost reduction program. We managed to repel the European Commission's proposal that would have banned the use of oil from Russia in Hungary. Families can sleep peacefully tonight, the most daunting idea has been fought off." Orban wrote triumphantly in a Facebook post.

At the state level, while all EU countries have unanimously approved the five rounds sanctions against these Russian/Belarusian entities and individuals, they have done so with varying degrees of enthusiasm.