An investigation by The Investigative Desk (Laurens Groeneveld ) in cooperation with OKO.press and FRONTSTORY.PL shows how large-scale investments by Chinese companies in these ports may compromise NATO’s response capabilities vsquare.org/nato-in-deep-w…

Very good article on direkt36 about the drivers of Orban's foreign policy re: the war, including details about the way his media was prepared to handle the issue post February, and how Russia is using gas sales as a leverage on Orban.
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Illuminating deep dive into Russian/Hungarian/Ukrainian relations by two of Hungary’s best investigative journalists Szabolcs Panyi and András Szabó | Direkt36 direkt36.hu/en/orban-a-hab…

Ethnic Hungarians from the western Transcarpathia region fighting for Ukraine displaying the 1956 anti-communist flag with hole this week marking the anniversary of Hungary’s Oct 23 revolution (Ruszkik haza! = Russians go home! (1956 graffiti)

What drives #Hungary 's foreign policy?

Excellent article from direkt36 journos Szabolcs Panyi András Szabó.

A great longread on Orbán's Russia policy for this Sunday / Oct 23 by Szabolcs Panyi and András Szabó well worth your time

CZECH daily Deník N interviewed CZECH Prime Minister about Hungary.

Hungarian Ambassador wrote threatening letter to editor in chief Pavel Tomášek who calls it 'unprecedented pressure on independent media from a govt ranked globally 85th by RSF'

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Our latest report explains PM #Orban ’s maneuvering since the outbreak of the war with behind-the-scenes episodes on how his anti-US views and the importance of gas for HU economy shaped and cemented his #Russian -friendly stance: direkt36.hu/en/orban-a-hab… Szabolcs Panyi Andras Petho

'Russia bears the sole responsibility for the current energy and economic crises”, says the document approved on Friday by the 27 EU leaders, Orbán Viktor among them 🙄

If you care about how Hungary's Viktor Orbán is maneuvering around the war on Ukraine, why he's so critical with the US and why he's so friendly with Russia, we have something for you.

The result of our four-month-long investigation now in English: direkt36.hu/en/orban-a-hab…

Hungarian Justice Minister is hosted by Heritage Foundation.

Instead of event examining how Hungarian government works as Russian and Chinese Trojan horse in Europe, it provides a platform for Hungarian govt pretending that serving worst enemies of freedom is 'modern Conservatism'.

If there is collusion between an EU Commissioner's team and a member state in order to influence the latter's hr decisions when it comes to handing out well-paid jobs at the diplomatic representation in Brussels, well, that would be quite the scandal.

Orbán 'defended' Hungary again. There will be no price caps for the gas 🇭🇺buys from Gazprom, and Hungary will be exempt from EU's flexible-price collective gas purchases. Which means 🇭🇺 is allowed to buy gas at the shameless prices the Kremlin dictates, financing their war.

According to Orbán Viktor long-term contracts will be exempted from the #gas price cap, and the common gas procurement will not be obligatory for #Hungary . “It was a long battle, but we managed to defend Hungary's interests”, he posted on his Facebook page
#EUCO

Here is your red flag.

A 🇨🇳Beijing-based team at #TikTok planned to surveil the movements of 🇺🇸U.S. citizens.

Per report by Emily Baker-White
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Coreper 1 out. Coreper 2 Tibor Stelbaczky already left in the summer when PM Orbán threatened to veto the sixth EU sanctions package in order to save Patriarch Kirill (KGB codename ‘Mikhaliov’) from being sanctioned. Things don’t seem to go well, do they? politico.eu/article/live-b…

In the last 4 months, two of our reporters, András Szabó and Szabolcs Panyi, investigated the Orbán gvt's response to the war.

Their story, full of previously unreported details, is coming soon.

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