Hungary

Hungary must stay out of the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday. "What matters most to us is the security of the Hungarian people," he added.

Fully 77 percent of Hungarians oppose the idea of Hungary, as a NATO member, sending soldiers and weapons to Ukraine, according to a Szazadveg Foundation survey conducted before the Russian military attack on Ukraine earlier today.

The united opposition has demanded the lifting of epidemiological restrictions and the special legal order introduced in connection with the coronavirus pandemic.

"War is the worst-case scenario", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook early on Thursday, after Russia started military operations on Ukrainian soil.

The municipal council of Budapest has decided to terminate a 2009 agreement under which a funicular as well as a bus park would have been built on central Gellert Hill.

If the united opposition wins the April 3 general election, the project to expand the Paks nuclear power plant "will not be implemented in its current form", Mate Kanasz-Nagy, LMP's co-leader, said on Wednesday.

Over 190,000 Hungarian citizens in Romania will receive a document enabling them to vote in the April 3 general election, the head of the national election office (NVI) told a press conference on Wednesday.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Wednesday visited the Armed Forces' Integrated Centre of Operations where he met Defence Minister Tibor Benko and the military officers working to guarantee Hungary's security, the PM's press chief said.

Hungary will not veto European Union sanctions related to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday, adding that the country stands by and takes part in shaping the European Union's common stance.

A European Commission plan to prohibit the promotion of red meat and wine in the bloc is "unacceptable", a state secretary of the Hungarian agriculture ministry has said.