Orban's victory over Brussels - reads the headline of a piece published by Il Giornale, and spotted by the Hungarian Mandiner portal. The Italian conservative daily writes that the European Commission is preparing to allocate some €13 billion in direct funding to Hungary. The article points out that the EU is trying to get unanimous support for its planned budget augmentation at year's end and - in this contexts - it underlines that
time is running out, and Orban is inching closer to a personal victory.
The Financial Times has also mentioned the fact that EU funds could arrive in Hungary on condition that Budapest agrees to support Ukraine. According to the British paper, the EU's goal is to get the support it needs to increase the budget, but that
would be a victory for PM Orban, who has repeatedly said that he will not agree to the expansion of the EU's budget, so long as Hungary's access is blocked.
Retired colonel Douglas Macgregor, former advisor to the Trump administration's defense secretary, decorated combat veteran and author of five books, has penned an op-ed for The American Conservative. In his article, he writes about
Volodymyr Zelensky's fall from international grace, which he says is a result of the lack of military success on Ukraine's part.
He describes Hungary's PM Orban as "wise and smart" for rejecting the general narrative that disparages Russian military forces.
