{"id":1312500,"date":"2025-10-28T10:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/hungary-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia-intend-to-create-an-anti-ukrainian-alliance-in-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T08:37:06","slug":"hungary-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia-intend-to-create-an-anti-ukrainian-alliance-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/hungary-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia-intend-to-create-an-anti-ukrainian-alliance-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia intend to create an anti-Ukrainian alliance in the EU."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"258\"><strong data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"256\">Hungary is seeking to join forces with the Czech Republic and Slovakia to form an alliance within the European Union that would take a skeptical stance on supporting Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-start\"> Hungarian Prime Minister&#8217;s adviser, Bal\u00e1zs Orb\u00e1n, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-anti-ukraine-bloc-czechia-slovakia-viktor-orban-andrej-babis-robert-fico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><u>said<\/u><\/a> this in a comment to Politico.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"377\" data-end=\"717\"> According to him, the Hungarian prime minister hopes to coordinate positions with Andrej Babi\u0161, whose right-wing populist party recently won the Czech parliamentary elections, and with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. The countries plan to coordinate actions before EU leaders&#8217; meetings, particularly during preparatory meetings before the summits.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"721\" data-end=\"901\"> &#8220;I think it will happen \u2013 and it will be increasingly visible,&#8221; Orban&#8217;s political director said, commenting on the possibility of creating a bloc that could act in concert in the European Council.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"1041\"> Politico notes that the formation of such an alliance could complicate EU decisions on financial and military support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1043\" data-end=\"1403\"> Bal\u00e1zs Orb\u00e1n mentioned the Visegr\u00e1d Four (Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland), which operated until 2022, when the Law and Justice party was in power in Warsaw. Following Russia&#8217;s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the group effectively disintegrated: Poland adopted a pro-Ukrainian stance, while Hungary continues to maintain contacts with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1405\" data-end=\"1580\"> The new alliance is expected to consist of only three countries, as Poland&#8217;s current Prime Minister Donald Tusk remains a staunch supporter of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1582\" data-end=\"1866\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> Fico and Babi\u0161, on the contrary, call for dialogue with Russia, oppose &#8220;excessive&#8221; economic pressure, and are skeptical about further aid to Kyiv. The Czech Foreign Minister has already warned that Babi\u0161 could become &#8220;Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s puppet&#8221; at the European Council level.<\/p>\n<p> As a reminder, <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/tramp-proviv-telefonni-perehovory-z-putinym-zustrinetsia-z-nym-v-uhorshchyni\/\">Donald Trump intends to meet with the head of the Kremlin in Hungary<\/a> in order to end Russia&#8217;s war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p> It was later announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/zustrich-trampa-i-putina-vidklaly-ssha-vvazhaiut-storony-ne-hotovymy\/\">preparations for a meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in Budapest had been halted<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p> Also follow <strong>&#8220;Pryamy&#8221;<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hungary is seeking to join forces with the Czech Republic and Slovakia to form an alliance within the European Union that would take a skeptical stance on supporting Ukraine. Hungarian Prime Minister&#8217;s adviser, Bal\u00e1zs Orb\u00e1n, said this in a comment to Politico. According to him, the Hungarian prime minister hopes to coordinate positions with Andrej [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1300469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874,76875,76894],"class_list":["post-1312500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war","category-other-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}