{"id":8624,"date":"2026-04-13T16:28:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8624\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:28:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:28:59","slug":"why-the-hungarian-election-matters-for-putin-europe-and-ukraine-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/8624\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Hungarian election matters for Putin, Europe and Ukraine | This Is Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Why the Hungarian election matters for Putin, Europe and Ukraine | This Is Why\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N5gPWZ5T_Wk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhy the Hungarian election matters for Putin, Europe and Ukraine | This Is Why<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAfter 16 years in power, Hungary&#8217;s Viktor Orban has been defeated by Peter Magyar, whose Tisza party has won a huge parliamentary majority. <\/p>\n<p>Magyar campaigned to break the country away from Russia&#8217;s grip and re-establish closer ties to the European Union, in a setback for both Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. But is this a genuine turning point and a strategic win for Ukraine&#8217;s war efforts? <\/p>\n<p>Niall speaks to our Moscow correspondent Ivor Bennett in Budapest to find out how significant the change of regime could be across the continent. <\/p>\n<p>Have you got a question for Niall? Email the show \u2013 why@sky.uk <\/p>\n<p>SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Twitter: https:\/\/twitter.com\/skynews<br \/>\nLike us on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/skynews<br \/>\nFollow us on TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@skynews <\/p>\n<p>For more content go to http:\/\/news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/app\/sky-news\/id316391924?mt=8 Android https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&#038;hl=en_GB <\/p>\n<p>Listen to our new podcast This is Why, available for free here: https:\/\/podfollow.com\/thisiswhy<\/p>\n<p>To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https:\/\/news.sky.com\/info\/library-sales<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why the Hungarian election matters for Putin, Europe and Ukraine | This Is Why After 16 years in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[906,7113,904,1719,910,296,79,12538,1721],"class_list":{"0":"post-8624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sky-news","8":"tag-election","9":"tag-hungarian-election","10":"tag-hungary","11":"tag-peter-magyar","12":"tag-putin","13":"tag-sky-news","14":"tag-ukraine","15":"tag-victor","16":"tag-viktor-orban"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116398373249533750","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}