Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said the European Commission failed to support Hungary and Slovakia in their dispute with Ukraine over the Druzhba oil pipeline, accusing Kyiv of blocking deliveries for political reasons and claiming Brussels was siding with Ukraine and Croatia against the two EU member states.

‘One of the answers to the problem that Uzbekistan quite quickly realized was digital transformation. This is making the state more “legible”, that is, more bureaucratically comprehensible and manageable…This is where the Hungarians can come in. Helping the Uzbeks with their technology to be more efficient.’

‘The central theme of the papacy’s foreign policy since the mid-15th century was the fight against the Ottomans. The Holy See not only directly helped Hungary with diplomatic means and financial support but also sought to reconcile the Christian princes in European politics with a view to a coordinated attack against the Turks.’

Hungarian opposition supporters have seized on prediction market platform Polymarket as proof that Viktor Orbán is heading for defeat, celebrating Péter Magyar’s lead as a sign of inevitable victory. Yet recent European elections suggest such markets are far from reliable indicators of political outcomes.

‘While the European Commission’s power grab is often romanticized as a way to enhance the EU’s capacity to respond to crises, in reality it represents a form of centralization that undermines Member States’ competences and weakens democracy.’

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said President Trump ‘got the last laugh’ over Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran, who was killed in a US–Israeli air strike in Tehran last week, referring to past Iranian assassination plots against the POTUS. Hegseth also declared that America is ‘winning—decisively, devastatingly and without mercy’ in the war against the Islamist regime in Iran.