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PM Orbán: We will prevent Ukrainian energy threat
The prime minister said households would pay 14,000 forints (EUR 35) instead of 7,000 for electricity and 54,000 forints instead of 16,000 for gas if Russian energy was stopped.
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PM Orbán: The energy threat from Ukraine is intensifying
Regarding the Voks 2025 vote on the question of Ukraine's prospective EU membership, the prime minister said: "One million people have already voted. Join us! Don't let them decide over...
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FM: Remarks by Ukrainian agent expelled from Hungary are unacceptable
Minister Szijjártó said the activity of Ukrainian spies and secret services had picked up lately.
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National Security Service identifies more Ukrainian spies
Máté Kocsis said the aim was to prevent, for instance, the disinformation campaigns that are currently underway from Ukraine, and to protect the Hungarian public space from foreign secret services...
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National security committee to be convened over Magyar’s connection to Ukraine’s influence operations
Máté Kocsis said it was vital to "clarify new information that surfaced in the press today on a connection between Ukrainian influence operations and the Tisza Party".
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PM Orbán: Unprecedented for non-NATO Ukraine to carry out secret service operations against NATO member Hungary
The prime minister said Ukraine was carrying out a well-coordinated, organized, funded, disinformation smear campaign against Hungary.
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Kocsis: Transparency act is best tool for combating Ukrainian propaganda
Máté Kocsis said NGOs and media financed from abroad first spread "migration propaganda before moving on to gender propaganda and then war propaganda".
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Kocsis: Ukrainian secret service operation amounts to a 'smear campaign' against Hungary
Ukraine published a statement on secret service operations last Friday, which was not previously coordinated through secret service channels, prompting a response from Hungary.
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Menczer: Ukraine move to block crude oil transit likely recommended by Brussels
By stopping crude deliveries, Ukraine was endangering Hungary’s and Slovakia’s energy security, which was in breach of its association agreement with the European Union.
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FM: NATO membership for Ukraine "is clearly out of the question"
"They are trying to conjure an image of [Ukrainian] NATO accession while everyone knows this is out of the question and cannot be a matter of discussion,” Minister Szijjártó said.
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Bóka: Hungarian government “will not give in to blackmail” over EU funds
János Bóka said Hungary does not link aid to Ukraine with its accessing EU funds and rejects others’ doing so.
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Bóka: EU's Ukraine policy needs to be shaped through strategic debate
János Bóka said that “without a strategic debate, we are not in a position to make decisions on further steps in Ukraine’s accession or the review of the multiannual financial framework.”
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Gulyás: EU's strategy on Ukraine has failed
Support for Ukraine must be found in a way that “does not deprive the next European Parliament and European Commission of the opportunity to take meaningful decisions on these issues without resorting to joint borrowing,” Gergely Gulyás said.