Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that his country is ready to open all negotiation clusters with the European Union under Denmark’s presidency of the Council of the EU, calling for a resolution to Hungary’s veto, which is hampering Ukraine's progress towards membership in the bloc.

The European Union's justice chief says Hungary has made virtually no progress in addressing concerns about democratic backsliding over the last year.

Countries like Viktor Orbán’s Hungary face losing out on billions of euros under European Commission plans to be unveiled on Wednesday.

The money currently frozen combines around €8.4 billion in cohesion funds and €9.5 billion in COVID-19 recovery funds. View on euronews

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration and Minister of Justice, Olha Stefanishyna, has said that negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the European Union can begin without the support of Hungary,

Hungary summoned Ukraine's ambassador on Thursday following claims that an ethnic Hungarian man died weeks after military recruiters allegedly assaulted him in Ukraine. Ukraine authorities said they "categorically" rejected accusations that the man had been forcibly mobilised and denied he had been beaten.

Hungary summoned the Ukrainian ambassador on Thursday, after a report that a Hungarian-Ukrainian dual citizen was beaten to death during forced mobilisation, an allegation Ukraine's army rejected, saying he died of a pulmonary embolism.

It’s been nearly a year since Slovakia’s hard-right minister for culture Martina Šimkovičová fired Matej Drlička from his position as director of the Slovak National Theatre, the country’s oldest and most significant theatre.

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s LGBTQ+ community is preparing for a face-off with the country’s autocratic government, and plans to push ahead with a march in the capital on Saturday despite a government ban and threats of legal repercussions.

Hungary opposes the European Union's idea to create a €100 billion fund to support Ukraine, calling it "war financing," according to Balázs Orbán, an adviser to the Hungarian Prime Minister. "Europe has run out of money — except when it comes to war.