{"id":699018,"date":"2026-04-02T06:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/699018\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T06:37:12","slug":"eu-wants-hungarys-next-leader-to-support-ukraine-it-should-be-so-lucky-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/699018\/","title":{"rendered":"EU wants Hungary\u2019s next leader to support Ukraine. It should be so lucky. \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Ukraine, he hasn\u2019t framed Kyiv as an enemy \u2014 but has studiously avoided any positive appraisals, knowing they would play badly at the ballot box.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s because anti-Ukrainian sentiment is deeply rooted in Hungary. According to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.policysolutions.hu\/userfiles\/elemzes\/378\/policy_solutions_the_world_through_hungarian_eyes_2025.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">autumn 2025 poll by the Policy Solutions think tank<\/a>, half of Hungarians consider Ukraine dangerous for Hungary, while 64 percent oppose Ukraine\u2019s EU accession and 74 percent believe the Hungarian government shouldn\u2019t send financial aid to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, Zelenskyy is one of the most hated politicians in the country, level with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cP\u00e9ter Magyar really doesn\u2019t have big room for maneuver on Ukraine,\u201d said Policy Solutions Director Andr\u00e1s Bir\u00f3-Nagy. Orb\u00e1n\u2019s anti-Ukraine campaigning via Fidesz-aligned media over the last four years has sharply eroded support for Kyiv, he explained. \u201cOn Ukraine, there was no competing narrative \u2026 Magyar tries to avoid the issue because he thinks this is a lost cause; he cannot turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the Tisza-organized National Day events in March, a big Ukraine flag was unfurled among the crowd in protest. But Magyar and independent media <a href=\"https:\/\/telex.hu\/english\/2026\/03\/16\/peter-magyar-says-ukrainian-flag-displayed-at-tisza-event-an-act-of-provocation?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">accused Fidesz of staging the incident<\/a> to stir controversy. \u201cOnce again, Fidesz and its propaganda machine could only muster pathetic lies and a provocation involving a Ukrainian flag,\u201d Magyar said. The ruling party has denied the allegation.<\/p>\n<p>Such attempts to stir up tensions are everywhere. The country\u2019s streets are flooded with billboards depicting the Ukrainian president smiling, with the message: \u201cDon\u2019t let Zelenskyy have the last laugh.\u201d And a new campaign poster design features black-and-white mugshots of Zelenskyy and Magyar under the slogan: \u201cThey are dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I cannot imagine a scarier thing than to declare the victim the aggressor \u2026 this is what Orb\u00e1n is doing, it\u2019s really stomach-turning and disgusting,\u201d said MP Timea Szab\u00f3 of the Dialogue for Hungary green party, who is running for reelection as an independent in a Budapest district.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Ukraine, he hasn\u2019t framed Kyiv as an enemy \u2014 but has studiously avoided any positive appraisals, knowing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":699019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[90,102001,47278,271406,29064,2850,269,50,22197,59849,257,273,2856,16815,3656,275,103],"class_list":["post-699018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-elections","tag-elections-in-europe","tag-eu27","tag-hungarian-elections-2026","tag-hungarian-politics","tag-hungary","tag-kremlin","tag-news","tag-peter-magyar","tag-rule-of-law","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ursula-von-der-leyen","tag-viktor-orban","tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","tag-war-in-ukraine","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}