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Why the EU Should Sanction Russia’s Patriarch

The Russian Orthodox Church’s sanctification of Russia’s war on Ukraine has met with little retort from Europe.

An Anniversary That Should Serve as Warning for Russia’s Allies

May 14 occupies a symbolic place in Russia’s military imagination. It marks the anniversary of the creation of the Warsaw Pact in 1955 and, nearly half a century later, the founding of the Collective...

Europe is writing itself out of the Middle East

The case for suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement on grounds of human rights is a powerful argument – as long as one doesn't look at what else Europe is doing in the region

China’s beachhead in the Balkans

Serbia is playing a dangerous game with the West. While the European Union and the United States are pursuing a partnership with and EU membership for Serbia, Serbia is cultivating a rapidly...

The U.S. Should Take a Page From Europe’s New Russia Sanctions Playbook

The European Union is stepping up enforcement against Russian sanctions evasion. Brussels has now implemented its largest set of designations against Moscow in two years, targeting the Kremlin’s enablers...

Europe Approves 90 Billion Euro Interest-Free Loan to Ukraine

Funding for Defense and Budget Expenses: The European Union gave final approval to a 90-billion-euro loan for Ukraine on April 23 after Hungary lifted its two-month veto. The interest-free...

From Budapest to Beirut to Tehran

Perspectives from Across the Pond

Orban’s ouster was a win. But don’t let Hungary distract from Russia’s next target

Post-election celebrations erupted in the streets of Budapest over the weekend after Hungarian voters ousted Prime Minister Viktor Orban after 16 years, handing pro-EU opposition leader Peter...

Americans shouldn’t cry for Orban

Never ignore the voters. After 16 years in power, Hungary’s corpulent Prime Minister Viktor Orban lost touch with the conservative base that supported him from the start, believing...

Center-Right Party’s Overwhelming Victory in Hungarian Election Could Boost EU Support for Ukraine

After 16 years in power, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was resoundingly defeated in the country’s general election on April 12. The victory of the center-right Tisza Party led by Peter Magyar...

If Orban wins, Putin will be delighted

In June 1989, a 26-year-old Viktor Orban demanded free elections and the withdrawal of Soviet troops in what was a defining moment in Hungary’s democratic awakening. He was a young...

Why Hungary’s two-faced Orbán deserves to lose his re-election bid

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary is on the ropes in his latest bid for reelection, down by double-digit margins in the latest polls. So he brought in a ringer. Vice President JD Vance, a star...

Russia Allegedly Meddles in Hungary’s Upcoming Elections

As Hungarian voters prepare for parliamentary elections in April, the contest is shaping up to be one of the toughest political challenges yet for Prime Minister Viktor Orban, whom President Donald Trump...

Hungary, Slovakia, and Serbia chose Tehran over Trump

The leaders of Slovakia, Hungary, and Serbia have long touted their loyalty to President Donald Trump, courting Washington’s conservative wing. But when Trump launched his war...

The US should stop indulging Hungary and Slovakia

In 2019, the then-Sen. Marco Rubio co-wrote an open letter to President Donald Trump, warning him about “the steady erosion of freedom, the rule of law and quality of governance”...

Marking Four Years of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Russia ‘Trying To Drag Out Negotiations’: No Breakthrough in Latest Geneva Talks To End Ukraine War

Latest Developments Second Day of Negotiations End: The second day of trilateral negotiations in Geneva on February 18 between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, represented by envoys Steve Witkoff...

Previewing Talks with Iran

Why 2026 Could Prove as Important as 1989

The year the Berlin Wall came down marked the end of one epoch and the start of another. This year could do the same.

Fifty Years of Gaslighting Israel at the U.N.

Five decades after its creation, it's long past time for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People to be shut down.