9/5 🧵 UPDATE | The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Porfirije, awarded Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban with Order of St. Sava, SPC's highest honor. 👇
7/23 Orbán just made a speech at Tusnadfurdo that’s likely going to be as controversial as his 2014 speech on ‘illiberalism’. Now he claimed that it’s OK for European people to ‘mix’ among each other but Hungarians are not ‘mixed-race’ and ‘don’t want to mix with other races’.
7/21 3/ First, the Orbán government inflates the numbers of Ukrainian refugees receiving help from the Hungarian state as an argument to try unlock frozen EU funds for the country as soon as possible - “We help so many Ukrainian refugees while Brussels keeps punishing us! How unfair!”
2018.4.24 Then, during a meeting btwn Orbán &Putin inFeb2016, the idea of cooperation btwn Ru& Hungarian companies came up.Acc to Hu economic daily Világgazdaság, Orbán and Putin discussed at the meeting that a joint offer of Hungarians&the Russian Transmashholding would increase their chances.
2020.5.15 The project was originally won by a consortium led by a Hungarian company Ganz, but it would have needed a state loan for the production of the cars. Hungarian state-owned Eximbank first agreed to secure the loan, however later it withdrew its support and de