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Věra Jourová, the vice president of the European Commission in charge of values of transparency, publicly excoriated Hungary's anti-EU campaign, calling it misleading and replete with "verifiable lies."
The European Commission said in a statement issued in Brussels on Wednesday that Hungary had not addressed the breaches of the principles of the rule of law that led to the adoption of measures by the Council in December 2022.
EU leaders have said that Ukraine will not be left without support, after Hungary blocked €50bn (£43bn) in aid. Ukraine is critically dependent on EU and US funding as it continues to fight occupying Russian forces.
Nearly a hundred people have stripped down to their festive swimsuits in Hungary for the 20th annual Budapest Naked Santa Run.
European Union leaders were unable to agree on a €50 billion ($54 billion) aid package for Ukraine after Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban blocked it, sending the debate into early next year as the bloc struggles to counter concerns that Western support is faltering. Bloomberg's Zoltan Simon reports from Budapest.
Video below shows Erdogan was given a horse by Orban during his visit to Budapest. The Hungarian PM got a Turkish made electric car from Erdogan.
The opposition Democratic Coalition will ask the chief public prosecutor and the interior minister about who is responsible for a case of oil contamination in Szigetszentmiklós, south of Budapest, three years ago, the party’s shadow minister for environmental protection said.
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