Hungary’s Orban Knocks EU Expansion, Blocks Fresh Funds for Ukraine 

Development comes as Kyiv blacklists a Hungarian bank that does business with Russia.

Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP
The Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, at Budapest, May 4, 2023. Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP

Say what you will about Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, but he knows how to spark a chat around the proverbial water cooler. How else to explain Mr. Orbán’s recent comparison of European Union expansion to Hitler’s “dream of European unity,” as he phrased it in remarks given in the country’s west. 

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