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Vikor Orbán’s defeat in the Hungarian elections was the major theme of this Cold War. Listen to José Milhazes and Nuno Rogeiro’s commentary
Viktor Orbán’s defeat in the Hungarian elections, after 16 years in power, marks a significant geopolitical turning point in the heart of Europe. The opposition candidate, Péter Magyar, won a two-thirds qualified majority in Parliament, in a victory that analysts consider a setback for both Moscow and Trump’s influence in the region. The change rebalances the so-called Visegrad Group and could facilitate support for Ukraine, although analysts warn of the absence of an immediate radical transformation in Budapest’s foreign policy.
At the international level, negotiations between the United States and Iran remain at a dangerous impasse, with Tehran presenting red lines that include war reparations, control of the Strait of Hormuz and regional arms parity, conditions that Washington rejects under pressure from Gulf countries. In parallel, a report by the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrainska Pravda exposed a systematized scheme of corruption in Ukraine’s military recruitment, with fixed prices for exemptions ranging between 300 and 50,000 dollars, at a time when, paradoxically, Kiev is recording its best operational results since the start of the war, surpassing Russia for the first time in the number of long-range drones used. Guerra Fria was shown on SIC on April 12th.
José Milhazes and Nuno Rogeiro analyze international current affairs. On Sundays on SIC’s Jornal da Noite and on podcast. Listen to more episodes here:
