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Dr. Varga György a moszkvai Valdaj Klub idei konferenciájáról és Putyin üzeneteiről

2026. X. 13. Dr. Varga György nyugalmazott diplomata 2017 - 2021 között az Európai Biztonsági és Együttműködési Szervezet (EBESZ) oroszországi Megfigyelő Missziójának vezetője volt az orosz-ukrán államhatáron. Diplomataként Ukrajnában, követként Moszkvában, nagykövetként Moldovában is szolgált. A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (MTA) köztestületi tagja. Beszél a moszkvai Valdaj Klub orosz agytröszt és vitafórum idei tanácskozásának tapasztalatairól és Putyin üzeneteiről - hogyan látja Oroszország a kettőnél több pólusú világot és a tömbös Nyugat büntetőpolitikáját. Beszél az amerikai-orosz viszonyról. Téma Zelenszkij 2022-es, tárgyalásokat tiltó rendelete és a nyugat-európai politikai tömb visszahatásai. Az adásban elemzik az Egyesült Államok és Nyugat-Európa viszonyát.      Az Egyesült Államok tavaly kijelentette, hogy tovább nem támogatja pénzzel ezt a háborút, Ukrajna pedig nem lesz NATO tag, azaz területének nyugati ellenőrzés alá kerülése, mint globális térnyerés Oroszország ellenében kiesett. A hivatalba álló amerikai elnök azonnal meghirdette, hogy ő le akarja állítani a háborút. Februárban Hegseth védelmi miniszter NATO tanácskozáson megmondta, hogy Ukrajna nem lesz NATO tag. 2025. március 2-án brit vezetéssel megalakult a 'hajlandóak szövetsége' - az Egyesült Királyságnak, az EU tagállamainak és Norvégiának a részt vételével - és maga alá hajtotta az Európai Uniót. Március 6-án Rubio külügyminiszter elmondta, hogy ez egy proxi háború, amit le kell zárni. Augusztusban Trump és Putyin Alaszkában megegyezik az elvekben, hogy hogyan kellene gyorsan lezárni ezt a háborút. Eldöntötték, hogy háromoldalú találkozóra kerüljön sor. Egy-két nap múltán Zelenszkij, és a 'hajlandóak' kisebb csoportja megjelenik Washingtonban és lebeszélik, megakadályozzák az amerikai elnököt abban, hogy a döntés megvalósuljon - a béketárgyalás lekerül a napirendről. 2025. októberében telefonbeszélgetések - Trump elnök és Putyin elnök megállapodik, hogy Budapesten hajlandó találkozni. Egy-két hét alatt a nyugat-európai ellenkezés miatt ez is lekerült a napirendről, az 'európaiak' annyira szeretnék folytatni ezt a háborút. A vezető erő el akarja hagyni ezt a háborút; Trump elnök továbbra is kitart amellett, hogy meg akarja állítani ezt. A hatalmon lévő európai ’elit’ folytatni akarja; az Egyesült Királyság egy Oroszország elleni háborúhoz használja ma az Európai Unió (EU) teljesítő képességét Ukrajnában - elhagyta ugyan az EU-t, de irányítja az EU külpolitikáját, többek között ebben a háborúban. Ennek az akaratnak az elfogadottságát megkérdőjelezi az amerikai külügyminiszter proxi háborúról szóló kijelentése: 2025. március 6-án Rubio kijelentette, hogy az ukrajnai háború egy amerikai-orosz proxi háború, ehhez Ukrajna a területet és az élőerőt adja. Zelenszkij keresztbe tesz minden békekezdeményezésnek. Az 'ukrán' háború mostani állapotában a tömbös, együttes Nyugat-Európa vezetésének hozzáállására jellemző, hogy teljesen magára vette a háború pénztámogatását.      A magyar kormányváltással meggyengült a háborúellenes nyomást gyakorló csoport az EU-ban, nem javult a helyzete azoknak, akik ma a háborút meg akarják állítani. Az ukrán 'EU-s tagság' eszköz, folytatni kívánt térnyerésre, az oroszok ellen, EU-s eszközrendszeren keresztül, a 'hajlandóak szövetségének' kezében. A kormányváltás után Magyarország lépései zöld utat adtak Ukrajnának ebbe az 'EU-s tagság’ irányba, egy olyan feltétellel, hogy a kárpátaljai magyar kisebbség visszakapja azokat a jogokat, amelyekkel rendelkeznie kell, mint őshonos kisebbségnek. A kisebbségi jogi kérdéskör az egyik ok, ami Ukrajnában a háborúhoz vezetett. Az orosz kérdéskör kettős: Ukrajnát ne építsék fel ottani amerikai, brit, stb katonai támaszpontokkal, Oroszország ellenében; az ott élő több millió etnikai orosznak, továbbá a 10 milliós nagyságrendű nyelvi, kulturális, vallási orosz kisebbségnek a jogait adják vissza. 2014. február 23-án az akkor államcsínnyel hatalomra került ukrán nacionalisták elvették valamennyi kisebbségtől az addig elég szilárd nyelvi jogokat, hatályon kívül helyezték Ukrajna tájegységi - 'regionális' - nyelvekről szóló törvényét. 2017-ben egyazon politikai erő elfogadott egy új oktatási törvényt és 2019-ben elfogadott egy új nyelvtörvényt, amely minden Ukrajnában kisebbségben élőt érintett: lengyeleket, románokat, bolgárokat, legnagyobb részben az oroszokat, tízmilliós nagyságrendben. 2017-től Magyarország leállított nagyon sok EU-ukrán, de főleg NATO-ukrán kapcsolatot, hogy rákényszerítsük Ukrajnát: adja vissza ezeket a jogokat. Semmilyen segítséget nem kaptunk sem az EU-tól, sem a NATO-tól ebben a kérdésben. 2023. december 8-án következett be változás: Ukrajna módosította a kisebbségi jogokra, oktatásra vonatkozó törvényét, december 15-én pedig az EU megkezdte Ukrajnával a csatlakozási tárgyalásokat. Ennek a bírálata folyamatos volt Magyarország részéről. Tegnap az ukránok az oktatási törvényt ismét módosították. Kényszer alatt tették ismét: ma tanácskozásra kerül sor, a további témakörök elengedésére, EU-s csatlakozási tárgyalások megnyitásában. De ez nem kiigazítása a 2019-ben Ukrajnában elfogadott nyelvtörvénynek, ami érvényben van, ami a kárpátaljai magyaroknak, összességében az ukrajnai kisebbségeknek korlátozza a nyelvi jogait. Ukrajna ebben a törvényben csak az EU-ban elfogadott nyelveket beszélő ukrajnai kisebbségeknek ad vissza jogokat. Lengyel, bolgár, magyar, román kisebbségek élhetnek korábban elvett, s visszaadott előnyöket. Hallgatólagosan ez a sok millió orosz nyelvűre nem vonatkozik. 50 ezer főből álló kisebbség használhatja anyanyelvét, a nem EU-s kisebbség, ha 10 milliós is, akkor sem használhatja. Ezzel a törvénnyel Ukrajna megerősítette, és az EU helybenhagyja, hogy az EU tudtával, támogatásával hivatalosan lehet diszkriminálni kisebbségeket Európában. Ukrajna ezzel a hátrányos megkülönböztetéssel nem Oroszországot bünteti, hanem azokat a saját állampolgárait, akik oroszok. Az értékalapú EU-ban ezt hogyan lehet kezelni? Nem tisztességes - nem 'korrekt' - hogy az EU hozzájárul ahhoz, hogy Európában milliós nagyságrendben lehet diszkriminálni kisebbségeket és nem szól Ukrajnának, hogy ez egy rasszista megoldás - rasszok szerint különbözteti meg az emberek jogait. A magyar kormánynak jogos aggodalmai vannak Ukrajna 'EU-s csatlakozásával' kapcsolatban. Magyarországon népszavazást kell tartani Ukrajna valamikori EU csatlakozásáról. Addig is a magyar kormánynak óvatosnak kell lennie, hogy milyen ütemben járul hozzá a csatlakozási tárgyalások folytatásához.       Ukrajnában ’Mirotvorec’ halál-névsort működtetnek. Magyar, Európai Parlamenti képviselő, Hídvégi Balázs nevét tették rá a múlt héten. És Kerkez Balázs futballistáét. 2023-ban Dúró Dóráét, a Magyar Országgyűlés képviselőjéét, aki azt mondta, hogy Ukrajna NATO tagsága egész Európa biztonságát veszélyezteti. 2021. február 11-én az Európai Parlament (EP) felszólította Ukrajnát egy határozatban, olyan kérdésekben, amelyekben elmaradása volt a Társulási Megállapodásban. Az EP határozat 73-as pontja fölszólítja Ukrajnát, hogy szélsőséges honlapokat, szervezeteket helyezzen hatályon kívül. Többek között név szerint említik a ’Mirotvorec’ honlapot. Öt év telt el s Magyarország támogatja a klaszterek megnyitását Ukrajna EU-s csatlakozási tárgyalásaiban. És érvényben van az EP határozata. Mért nem halljuk ezt naponta a magyar Országgyűlésben, az Európai Parlamentben, hogy Ukrajna nem hajtotta végre ezt a pontot sem?!      Birtokon belül vagyunk, mint az EU tagja, csak nem élünk vele, hogy kit engedünk be, kivel folytatunk tárgyalásokat, kinek adunk pénzt. Magyarország csatlakozásához évekig hangoztattak követeléseket, például hogy nem vihet be történelmi sérelmeket az EU-ba. Rendezett közép-európai állapotok mellett 1996-97-ben alapszerződések kötésére kötelezték Magyarországot, hogy EU, NATO szóba álljon velünk. Ukrajnát ugyanazok a kötelezettségek nem érintik. Holott háborúban áll, nem ismerjük a határait, népességét. Ukrajna háborúja történelmi sérelem, területeinek kb 20%-át nem ellenőrzi. Ukrajna netáni csatlakozásával háborút kell meghonosítani az EU-ban. A kiválasztottak, az 'elit' lehetőséget lát benne, hogy Oroszország ellen tovább lehet folytatni a háborút, most már EU-s védőszárny alatt. Felvételével az EU-ba Ukrajna jogos követelése, hogy az EU minden segítséget adjon meg ahhoz, hogy visszaszerezze területei fölött az ellenőrzést. A háborús Ukrajnával az ellenségét is behozzuk, elterjesztjük, tehát az EU nagyon hosszú időre lekötelezi magát ebben a háborúban, ahelyett, hogy saját fejlődésére összpontosítana. Holott nem kéne az orosz-ellenes politikát folytatni, hisz az eurázsiai kontinensen együtt élünk.       A háborút nem kéne pénzzel támogatni, be kéne fejezni. Ha valaki megnézi, mi történt mióta a háború elkezdődött, miért nem engedik leállítani ezt a háborút, mennyi pénzt költünk rá, AI adat szerint 2022-2026 között Ukrajna az EU-tól 227 milliárd euro-t kapott. Ebben még nincs benne az EU-s, 90 milliárdos hitelfelvétel Ukrajnának, az újabban, most kért 27 milliárd euro, a kétoldali alapon Németország adta 100 milliárd euro – ez augusztusi kormányzati adat - amihez 1,3 milliárd euro-t múlt héten odavitt pótlólag Merz kancellár. Nincs benne a brit, a francia, az ausztrál, japán dél-koreai, a norvég - mint nem EU tag - pénztámogatás. Milyen morális válságban vagyunk mi egy szervezetben, ha Magyarországnak járó, most 4,2 milliárdos kis csomagról hitegetnek bennünket, hogy megkapjuk-e év végéig, mit kell még hozzá teljesítenünk, 'egyébként korruptak vagyunk', megvesztegethetők? Hogy van az: 227 milliárd euro egy EU-n kívüli országnak?! És ki költi rá ezt a pénzt? Magyarországnak meg 10 milliárd euro-t sem, arra hivatkozva, hogy 'korruptak ', lefizethetők vagyunk?! 193 ország között Magyarország a 70-es-80-as mezőnyben a ’korrupciós indexen’ - a 'lefizethetős' tárgymutatón, a Transparency International honlapján. Ukrajna 20-30 hellyel rosszabbon szerepel mint a magyar - néha 120 fölött, néha 110 fölött, most ép a 104-es helyen. Ha rendes auditáló – könyvvizsgálatot végző, átvilágító - szervezete lenne az EU-nak!... S kitől veszik el ezt a pénzt? Tőlünk. 450 millió EU-s lakostól lapátolják ki a pénzt EU-n kívülre, egy háború támogatására, miközben az EU tagjának vagy nem adják oda mindenféle légből kapott okokkal, elveszik a pénzt, vagy belekényszerítik majd, hogy ezt az Ukrajna politikát folytassa, és akkor idecsöpögtetnek további 2-3-4 milliárd euro-t... Ha folytatódik Ukrajna EU-s csatlakozási tárgyalása, a következő 7 éves EU-s költségvetésben a Magyarországra vonatkozó számok jóval kisebbek lesznek, hisz ezeket a 100 milliárdokat az EU-nak a következő 7 évben is be kell számítania - háborúra, netán egy újjáépítésre, miközben Magyarországnak most éppen 4,2 milliárd valamiféle júdáspénzről beszélünk.      Ma arról beszélnek egyesek, hogy ukránok 'védik Európát'; ez a háború előidézetlen - ’kiprovokálatlan’ - orosz agresszió Ukrajna ellen, s ő véd bennünket. Ez egy kacsa. Az ukrán nép, az egyszerű ember számára ez egy honvédő háború. De az hiba, amit az ukrán krém, az ’elit’ 2014-ben elkövetett. Megpuccsolta a demokratikusan megválasztott vezetését, utána ezen államcsíny miatt polgárháború tört ki - ’szeparálódtak’ tőle, elkülönültek területek, mert nem akarták a puccsista, az államcsíny szervezésben részt vevő személyek vezetése alatt abban az országban alárendelni magukat egy puccsista kormánynak - majd utána aláírja a Minszki Megállapodást arról, hogy rendezi ezt a polgárháborús helyzetet, de soha nem teljesíti az ENSZ BT határozatát. A Minszki Megállapodások 11-es pontja arról szólt, hogy Ukrajnának 2015. december 31-ig meg kell változtatnia az alkotmányát, úgy, hogy békésen visszaállít korábbi helyzetet, viszonyokat - 'reintegrálni' tudja Kelet-Ukrajna 'szeparatista', elszakadásra törekvő területeit. Ezt nem akadályozta Oroszország. A kezes Németország és Franciaország semmit nem tett, hogy erre rábírják Ukrajnát, amelyik 2020-tól nyíltan mondta, hogy ő ezt nem fogja megtenni. Ha egy hatalom több millió nemzettársát folyamatosan ilyen diszkrimináció éri, ezt tekintélyvesztés nélkül nem tudja elviselni. Mint ahogy azt sem, hogy Ukrajna területén jelennek-e meg francia, német, amerikai támaszpontok. Ukrajnában a mai napig érvényben van az a népszavazása, hogy Ukrajna független, atomfegyvermentes, semleges és katonai tömbön kívüli ország. Mind a NATO, mind az ukrajnai kiválasztottak, a politikai 'elit’ az ukrán nép akarata ellen teszi, amit tesz. Most is érvényben van az ország függetlenségi nyilatkozata. Az ország szuverenitási nyilatkozatának 9-es pontja mondja ki, hogy tömbön kívüli országként akar élni Ukrajna. Aki rángatja katonai tömb felé, szembe megy az ukrán nép akaratával. Ukrajna azért harcol, mert a politikai 'elitje' – a ’színe-java’ - nem kerülte el a háborút, ami elkerülhető volt, hanem belevitte a háborúba az országot. Ez az 'elit'- a krém - nem zárta le a háborút, amikor ez a háború lezárható lenne. Lezárható volt 2022 áprilisában. Február 24-én kezdődött a háború és február 28-án, Minszkben tárgyalt Ukrajna és Oroszország, utána folytatták Isztambulban. Utána az együttes Nyugat lépett közbe, hogy ne állapodjanak meg Oroszországgal. 2022. október 3-án Zelenszkij rendeletet írt alá, amely mai napig érvényben van s amelyben megtiltotta az ukránoknak a tárgyalásokat Oroszországgal.      Trump arról beszélt, hogy Zelenszkijt el kéne távolítani, egy másik elnökre lenne szüksége Ukrajnának. Ha választást tartanának, kik lehetnek a kihívói? Vagy váltás történne, miután az ellenzék megszűnt? Aki békepárt volt, 11 politikai pártot bezártak 2022 márciusában. Csak olyan párt lehet ma Ukrajnában, amelyik támogatja, hogy NATO taggá kell válni, harcolni kell az oroszokkal, a hátrányos megkülönböztetést a kisebbségekkel fönn kell tartani, tehát az orosszal szemben. Azt az Ukrajnát 'visszük be az EU-ba', ahol nyolcadik éve nincs parlamenti választás és elnökválasztás. Ilyen egy ’demokráciát védő állam.' Mi meg ’védjük őt, hogy nehogy véletlen választást kelljen ott tartani’, mert az csúf hatással lenne a politikai krémre, az 'elit'-re.       Racionális politikus, szakértő nem erőltetné Ukrajna NATO tagságát, mert az EU további szétveréséhez vezet. A nyugati tömb, vagy az EU egy része azt tehetné: két fő Ukrajna-kérdésben nagyon gyorsan dűlőre kellene jutni. Az egyik: Ukrajna beleteszi az alkotmányába, azonfelül a NATO elfogad egy nyilatkozatot, hogy Ukrajna nem lesz NATO tag - ezzel Oroszország kipipálja a biztonságpolitikai problémáit. A másik: az EU ráveszi Ukrajnát, hogy minden kisebbségi kérdést helyezzen vissza a 2014. február 23-i előtti állapotba. Mért probléma egy értékalapú Európának hogy visszakapja Ukrajna minden kisebbsége a 2014 február 23-ig érvényes jogait?! Ha e két dolog tisztességes módon megtörténne, önkéntelenül - 'automatikusan' - megoldaná Ukrajnában a háborút. Nem úgy, hogy kijelentjük, hogy nem lesz NATO tag, majd egy hét múlva átnevezzük, hogy 'ez tulajdonképpen nem a NATO, hanem az Európai Unió Védelmi Ügynöksége', amibe felvettük Ukrajnát. Kétséges, hogy az a politikai 'elit', a válogatott, amelyik most már évek óta viszi ezt a háborút - beleértve a németet, a franciát, britet, amely EU-n kívüli, de mégis ráhatással bír - jó szándékúan lépne-e ki ebből a háborúból. Ebben a helyzetben az amerikai elnök, - annak ellenére, hogy bármilyen ellentmondásos a tevékenysége, bármennyire önveszélyes politikát is folytatott egyébként, és látszik, hogy november 3-án elég komoly problémái lehetnek még most a választásokon az Egyesült Államoknak, de: tesz valamit. Tehát nem egységes ma a tömbös Nyugat abban, hogy ezt a háborút úgy, abban a maga valójában folytatni kell, mint ahogy ez a Biden adminisztráció alatt, 2022. február 24-én elkezdődött. Előtte az oroszok zsinórban tettek rá javaslatokat. Az utolsót 2021. december 15-én tették, amikor a NATO-hoz fordultak, hogy állapodjanak meg, rendezzék Ukrajna helyzetét, mint katonai tömbön kívüli országét. A NATO lerúgta a pályáról az oroszokat, hogy semmi köze hozzá. Ezt nagyon könnyű leegyszerűsíteni egy olyan háborúvá, ahol ’Ukrajna bennünket véd’ nekünk pedig 'költségeiben fedeznünk, pénzzel támogatnunk kell ezt a háborút' - életfogytiglan.

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October 10, 2026 4:43 PM CET  Germany and its allies rebuffed the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU’s plan to downsize the bloc’s next seven-year budget, arguing that the proposed cuts are not enough. ’We are still a long way from an agreement. The amount of the new proposal is not a basis for an agreement,’ Merz wrote today. Germany contributes to approximately one-quarter of the bloc’s common budget. A German-led camp is demanding reductions of several hundred billions euros. The group of six frugal countries - Austria, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden - contribute 40% of the Union’s common budget. Ireland’s Minister of State for European Affairs Byrne, who leads the negotiations, dismissed criticism and described the proposal as a ’balanced compromise’. Most frugal countries criticized Ireland’s proposed €159 billion in cuts in current prices from the Commission’s nearly €2 trillion proposal, saying they were insufficient, as the overall amount would still be higher than the current budget. Austrian Europe Minister Bauer was saying that the new budget remained miles away from an Austrian yes. Sweden’s Europe minister Rosencrantz described the negotiating document as a wildly unaffordable increase. Dutch Finance Minister Heinen warned today that at this rate, there will be no deal by the end of the year. A rival camp of southern and eastern states, the Friends of Cohesion, are opposing reductions to farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts known as cohesion policy. These areas account for almost half of the total budget and are politically sensitive because of pressure from farmers' lobbies and regions. In a concession to the 17 Friends of Cohesion, Ireland left the agriculture and regional budgets untouched and focused cuts on other priorities such as competitiveness, defense and development aid. It’s an excellent starting point to have recovered the money for the CAP [Common Agricultural Policy], but we’re still not satisfied, said Italy’s Agriculture Minister Lollobrigida. Poland's Europe minister Niemczycki welcomed the fact that his country continues to receive the largest allocation, but noted that the change in the overall size of the budget does not match the EU’s ambitions. The frugals also are disappointed that the cuts disproportionately „target innovative policies such as defense” and competitiveness, which they favor. EU governments are racing to reach a budget deal among themselves by the end of the year -  ’before elections in France, Italy and Poland in 2027 threaten to derail negotiations’. Tensions will come to a head during a summit of EU leaders next Thursday and Friday, where they will discuss the negobox. (Source: Politico – U.S., owned by a German company)

Ireland
October 10, 2026 1:15 PM GMT+2  Ireland is the current holder of the EU's six-month rotating presidency, The Irish EU presidency proposed today an 8% cut or €141 billion in the European Commission's budget plan for the period 2028 to 2034 to €1.6 trillion ($1.79 trillion), drawing criticism from more frugal member states that the reduction is not deep enough. The Irish proposal still marks a 30% increase over the bloc's current budget, which runs from 2021 to 2027 and it is the main source of financing for all of the 27-country bloc's main policies. The Commission has said the bloc ’needs to spend more on defence' and boosting European competitiveness, „while some member states want to retain most of the expenditure to support farming and regional development”. Ireland put the Commission's original €2 trillion figure adjusted for inflation over the seven-year period at €1.76 trillion based on 2025 prices, which resulted in an 8% reduction. The proposal sets out a 3% cut in spending on regional development, agriculture and fisheries from the Commission's own figures - the biggest outlay in the budget - and a 13% reduction in spending on competitiveness and security. It foresees €55 billion in new financing options derived from customs duties, a share of the cash EU governments get from selling CO2 emissions permits to companies and an annual lump-sum contribution from large companies operating in the EU, among other sources. Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz joined ministers from Sweden and the Netherlands - all three countries are net contributors to the budget - in criticising the Irish proposal. The EU budget ’must be affordable for those who bear the main burden of financing it,’ he said. Lawmakers in the European Parliament want a 10% increase in the Commission's €2 trillion proposal. They said the Irish plan would weaken Europe and would not win their consent. The budget needs to be agreed by all 27 member states. EU leaders will discuss the Irish proposal in Brussels on October 15 to 16. (Source: Reuters - United Kingdom)

European Commission
(Saturday), 10/10/2026 - 17:06  EU foreign policy chief Kallas said today that lifting sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war, after US President Trump announced a deal for Moscow to supply fuel. ’This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won't,’ she wrote. EU foreign ministers are set on Monday to formally add some 1,600 new indidividuals and entities to the EU's sanctions blacklist over the war in Ukraine. Separately from Kallas, the European Commission in response to Trump's diesel deal, called for a truce that covered infrastructure in both Ukraine and Russia. ’We continue to believe’ that a ceasefire which would protect global food supplies and Energy Infrastructure in Ukraine and Russia is needed, the EU's executive said. It added: ’Europe knows too well the hidden costs linked to over reliance on Russian hydrocarbons, and Europe does not wish to fuel Russia's war against Ukraine.’ (Source: rfi 'with AFP’ = France)

10/10/2026 - 9:47 GMT+2  The European Union is rapidly coming to terms with the limitations of its multibillion-euro support for Ukraine, as Russia's all-out escalation wrecks the country's finances, depletes its air defences and deepens its reliance on cash-strapped donors. The deterioration raises serious questions about the viability and durability of the EU's multiple support programmes, notably the €90 billion loan that leaders agreed last year to cover two-thirds of Ukraine's needs for 2026 and 2027. The loan was designed under the premise that 'the war would end sometime this year”. Diplomats concede it is only a matter of time before leaders address the contentious matter. ’This war will last longer than we thought, a European diplomat said. There's a realisation that needs will continue to present themselves, but it's not yet clear how this will be addressed. The escalation has hit the country's war-battered economy particularly hard, as the endless waves of drones disrupt ordinary activity, force businesses to close, raise material costs and eat away at profits. Russia's blockade in the Black Sea has added further strain, preventing selling tonnes of grain to global clients and depriving the state of an essential source of revenue. Ukraine's Finance Minister Marchenko has urged ’international donors’ to fill a staggering $78 billion (€70 billion) gap. Brussels has not formally reopened the debate on new support for Ukraine, as member states are currently embroiled in bitter negotiations over the next EU budget. The total absence of US aid compounds the equation. A group of EU countries has attempted to revive the debate on the immobilised Russian assets, arguing the €90 billion loan ’will not be enough’. But Belgium, the main custodian of the assets, has pushed back. As of now, there's nothing new or substantial on the table. France and Italy, two key votes, remain reluctant to go down the uncharted avenue. The Commission has promised to speed up disbursements, contingent on internal reforms. For 2027, the picture is indeed more challenging. It's clear that we are facing a sizeable funding gap, Economy Commissioner Dombrovskis said yesterday after a meeting of finance ministers. The option of issuing more joint debt to support Ukraine, as done with the €90 billion, has become politically unattractive amid spiralling borrowing costs. The option of ramping up bilateral contributions, which is much more straightforward, is placing the burden on a few wealthy countries, namely Germany, the Netherlands and the Nordics. Brussels is asking other allies, such as the UK, Canada and Japan, ’to step up to the plate’ as it figures out what to do next. (Source: Euronews - based in Lyon, France)

10/10/2026 - 09:10  What is at stake as Brussels prepares to rewrite its pesticide rules? As the EU prepares to vote on a package that would end regular safety reviews of most pesticides, victims, doctors and scientists warn it could keep harmful products on the market for longer. For decades, French farmers sprayed pesticides they were told were harmless. Many have since fallen ill, grappling with cancers and other diseases caused by exposure. Nadan worked as a professional beekeeper in Morbihan, a coastal area in Brittany known for its medieval towns and recalls a golden age of beekeeping, when each year, the number of hives naturally increased. But things took a turn for the worse in the 1980s, when the varroa mite, a parasite, made its way to France. It weakens bees by suppressing their immune system and spreading deadly viruses that can collapse entire colonies. Nadan spent many years keeping an orchard of cider apple trees he treated with a pesticide that, he was told, was organic and had no effect on humans. ’The sales reps even said it was so safe you could drink it,’ the 69-year-old says. ’I never took the slightest precaution, spraying from my tractor as I drove along the rows of trees,’ Nadan recalls. ’Sometimes, because of the wind, I’d get some on my face. But I wasn’t worried.’ ’I later found out it was a product like Roundup [a Monsanto weed killer] and contained glyphosate,’ he says, a substance now known to be harmful to human health. Pesticides are known to cause a range of health issues, including various types of cancer, respiratory diseases, neurodegenerative illnesses like Parkinson’s or Alzheimer's, cardiovascular diseases and infertility. Six years ago, Nadan was diagnosed with prostate cancer. His illness has officially been recognised as an occupational hazard caused by pesticides by France’s agricultural social security system. ’I went to the funeral of a crop technician I was helping last week. He would go from farm to farm and survey treated fields, and fell ill shortly after retiring,' Nadan says. 'He had a form of Parkinson’s that meant he could barely speak and was in a wheelchair. The disease progressed so rapidly that he didn’t have time to finalise his request to have the illness officially recognised as being caused by pesticides.’ Pesticides also impact children more than adults, leading to developmental delays and cognitive impairments. A 2023 study in which hundreds of samples were gathered from different environments across 10 European countries found that pesticides were present in 100% of air, indoor dust and water samples. Leduc, a retired doctor living close to the Belgian border in northern France, has lived next to crop fields treated with pesticides for 44 years. A lover of gardening, Leduc spent a lot of time outside, not being very careful in the early years. ’I didn’t know the products I was inhaling were toxic,’ he said. Leduc discovered he had lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, in 2018, and was diagnosed with prostate cancer in August of this year – two conditions linked to pesticides. The toll of pesticide exposure is becoming clearer. Europe still sees cases where they cause harm to both the environment and humans. Unlike the US, which uses a risk-based model that factors actual levels of exposure, the EU uses a hazard-based model, meaning it focuses on the inherent toxicological properties of a certain chemical before it’s approved. Regulatory assessments are often delayed and take time, slowing down the process for pesticides to enter the market. To speed things up and cut red tape, the European Commission proposed a legislative package that would overhaul the current system. The EU is preparing to vote on a set of legal amendments that could make it harder to ban these harmful products. Known as Omnibus X, it would amend ten existing EU laws that cover pesticides, biocides, food residues, animal feed and official controls. A key amendment aims to scrap the periodic re-evaluation of pesticides, which often end up causing greater damage than expected after being initially approved. The EU ensures the move would have ’no compromise on food safety or environmental protection’. Critics of the package disagree. ’Many farmers feel a sense of shame, especially because they have children who work in conventional farming,” Nadan says, fearing the Omnibus would only fuel the surge in cancers and other degenerative diseases for generations to come. “New scientific findings need to be taken into account regularly, because there is always a level of uncertainty [about the risk of a pesticide] before it hits the market,” says ecotoxicologist Vijver. “A periodic review is a safety lock, it’s crucial, because we can’t foresee every consequence.' ’All pesticides are aimed at killing something,’ Vijver explains. ’If a substance is neurotoxic for insects, for example, that same neurotoxicity could apply to humans [...] Which is not so strange, because that’s the intention [of the pesticide].’ An insecticide known as chlorpyrifos, for example, was approved for use in the EU back in 2006. Sprayed on crops to control pests or on grains stored in warehouses, the chemical came to be one of the most commonly used pesticides in Europe. Residues of the substance were found in fruit, vegetables, dairy products and drinking water. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) reviewed the evidence and decided in 2019 that no safe exposure level could be set, and that chlorpyrifos didn’t meet the EU’s health requirements. Even in small doses, chlorpyrifos affects the human body’s neurological, reproductive, metabolic and immune systems. The substance was linked to neurodevelopmental disorders in children, including autism. ’I had a fever at night and red patches on my arms,’ Benoit, a former farmer in charge of pruning trees in the winter and applying pesticides from spring through summer, recalls. ’It was because of the insecticides we were using, like D6.’ ’It was hard to find work at the time, and we were told they were only toxic in large doses,’ he says. The 65-year-old from western France was also diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2019. For scientists like Vijver, the regular reassessment of pesticides is one of the few safeguards against such long-hidden harms, and it is precisely what the EU’s upcoming omnibus would remove. Under the current EU system, a pesticide’s approval expires on a set date, and the company producing it has to show again that its product is safe to keep selling. If the approval no longer expires automatically, the product would stay on the market by default, removing the “safety lock” that Vijver refers to. If passed, the legislation package would also increase the maximum grace period for farmers to substitute banned pesticides from 18 months to three years. Conditions for the exceptional use of banned pesticides, including endocrine disruptors, would also be loosened. Vijver took the initiative to write an open letter on September 17 and urged the European Parliament to pause the vote on the legislative package until an independent investigation into its potential health and environmental impacts is carried out. She gathered 573 other signatories from a wide range of disciplines, including environmental protection, medicine and public health – all of whom have expertise in the field. “As scientists, we are really worried. I would never have done this if I wasn’t really worried,” she admits. Cancer victims and farmers marched arm in arm last weekend, on October 3, flanked by doctors and activists, to protest pesticides. The march saw 8,000 demonstrators gather outside a factory in northern France owned by Syngenta, the world’s largest pesticide seller. Amid the crowd was Breteau, founder of the Cancer Colère collective, who made waves last year when she sparked a nationwide movement to block the reintroduction of the pesticide acetamiprid. It was banned last summer, but France passed an agricultural law in August this year that would partially reverse the decision. ’We’re losing peers every week,’ she said. French environmental organisation Générations Futures has organised a weekend of protests and canvassing across the country, aimed at informing people about the EU legislative package that could loosen restrictions on pesticides. A third of the European Parliament is made up of right-wing and ’far-right’ MEPs, ’who favour scrapping standards’ says Battentier, campaign manager for Générations Futures on the chances the legislative package will pass. A first-ever 'presidential' debate on pesticides organised by the NGO will also take place in Cambrai, northern France, today, with leftist representatives of presidential candidates for the 2027 election saying they will attend. Three hundred doctors in France have been awaiting a response from former prime minister Gabriel Attal, centre-right Philippe and Interior Minister Retailleau to debate this major public health issue – but their seats are likely to remain empty. ’23 million people in France suffer from either a chronic illness or cancer,’ the doctors wrote in the letter sent on September 28. ’What is the point of our efforts if we don’t tackle the root cause of the diseases?”’ „Our aim this weekend is to inform people about the Omnibus, spark debate, get people talking, which is definitely something its supporters want to avoid,’ says Battentier. The vote on Omnibus X is expected to take place at the end of October. (Source: France 24)

European Union
(10/10/2026) / 09/10/2026 - 14:45 GMT+2  EU paid around €7.88bn for liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Russia’s Arctic energy project in the first nine months of 2026 amid record imports, ’despite Brussels’ efforts’ to phase out gas from Moscow, according to the campaign group Urgewald. Brussels introduced a ban on new Russian energy contracts at the beginning of 2026, with a complete ban on Russian LNG taking effect on 1 January 2027. The figures, compiled by Urgewald using data from the market intelligence firm Kpler, expose just how reliant the EU remains on Russian energy, with a record of 12.18 million tonnes reaching European ports between January and September this year. Continued Russian LNG imports undermine the credibility of the EU’s promise ’to sever its energy ties’ with Moscow, particularly as Russia continues its war against Ukraine. European LNG imports from the Russian Yamal project rose 9.5% year-on-year between January and September, with EU ports receiving 85% of Yamal’s recorded deliveries. France received nearly three-quarters of September’s EU deliveries, with the Dunkirk and Montoir ports receiving 571.716 million tonnes of Arctic LNG, according to Kpler. The Netherlands imported 146.461 million tonnes of LNG and Portugal 74.263 million tonnes. No cargoes were recorded in Spain or at Belgium’s Zeebrugge terminal. A ban on imports under existing short-term contracts took effect on 25 April, but September deliveries reached 792,440 tonnes, slightly above the level a year earlier. The EU’s full ban on Russian LNG under eligible existing long-term contracts is scheduled to take effect on 1 January 2027. ’The German-based NGO Urgewald is calling for the upcoming 22nd EU sanctions package to close loopholes, particularly those supporting the specialised Arc7 ice-class tanker fleet needed to transport LNG from the Arctic’. ’Washington, meanwhile, now has the power to sanction this trade at any time before then,’ reads Urgewald's statement. The data provided does not establish how much of the trade could be redirected to other buyers or what the consequences would be for European gas prices. Any additional trade disruption on top of the loss of LNG from the Middle East would have an impact. Meanwhile, the Trump administration recently announced the Lindsey Graham Act, giving the US the power to sanction Russian LNG deliveries to Europe before the EU's ban on Russian LNG takes effect, forcing European governments and buyers to respond. Europe's gas storage levels are at a record low, and the bloc faces a brutal energy crisis, leaving Brussels increasingly vulnerable to decisions from Washington, the EU's major LNG supplier. ’EU imports from Yamal will depend on the goodwill of the US President from 18 October’ until the final embargo takes effect in 2027. The US administration faces an 18 October deadline for its first review under the law. The law’s practical impact depends on how the administration exercises its powers. The US President must compile a list of ships transporting Russian LNG by October 18. These ships will then be subject to sanctions unless Trump issues so-called waivers. This is possible and not unlikely. US sanctions have already severely restricted Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 project and the Northern Sea Route, while Yamal LNG continues to supply Europe. (Source: euronews - based in Lyon, France)

England
10 October 2026  Global Islamic financial and business leaders, policymakers and industry experts will gather in London on Oct. 13-14 for the 5th Annual AlBaraka Summit to discuss the role of Islamic finance in economic development. The gathering which will take place at JW Marriott Grosvenor House, will bring together government ministers, scholars and 'representatives from Muslim-majority and non-Muslim-majority markets' to explore ethical investment, financial inclusion, innovation and sustainable economic growth under the theme Ethics in Action: Rebuilding Foundations and Advancing the Global Impact of the Islamic Economy. Discussions will focus on translating Islamic economic principles, including justice, accountability, risk-sharing and social responsibility, into practical outcomes across financial markets, regulation, technology and economic development. The agenda will cover Islamic banking and capital markets, policy and regulation, social finance, Takaful, Waqf and Zakat, digitalization and entrepreneurship. Participants will also examine the role of international financial centers in advancing the Islamic economy. The Islamic economy’s foundations connect economic activity with justice, accountability and responsibility to society, Khalawi, secretary-general of the AlBaraka Forum for Islamic Economy said. London provides an important setting for that conversation, connecting Islamic finance with one of the world's leading international financial centers, he said. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)

Russia
Sat 10 Oct 2026 08:58 CEST  Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia killed seven, injured at least 10. Rescue workers are searching the rubble for people. (Source: Sweden Herald / TT News Agency = Sweden)

08:58, 10 Oct 2026  US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami yesterday to discuss a diplomatic way to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Washington officials blamed surging oil prices on Kyiv’s tactical strikes. During the eight-hour talks, top envoys Witkoff and Kushner threatened to cut off key American intelligence if Zelensky didn’t play ball, Axios reported. A US official denied the report and said: 'Zelensky is misreading the room. ’By continuing to hit refineries, he is eroding the good will that he has built with Trump over the last six months. After hours of US-Ukrainian talks in Miami Trump struck a massive diesel deal with Putin - agreement reportedly worth £3.4billion. As part of the oil deal Russia would immediately supply 300,000 tonnes with another 500,000 tonnes during November, Trump said. The Ukrainian negotiating team left Miami early after the diesel deal was announced. Later Ukraine hit a key Russian oil hub. The strikes pummelled the key Yug Rusi oil-loading terminal in Rostov-on-Don, which ’handles petroleum from the Novoshakhtinsk refinery’. At least 50 drones swarmed in. A linked railway bridge in the region was also damaged, halting traffic in both directions. Two ships in the Sea of Azov were also attacked amid the onslaught. The UK said it would ’maintain pressure on Russia’ through tough sanctions, Downing Street has said. (Source: The U.S. Sun)

October 10 2026 09:37  The United States has temporarily eased sanctions on Russian diesel after President Trump announced a supply agreement with Russian President Putin. Trump said on Truth Social that Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons to U.S. and global markets, followed by another 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons immediately afterward. A further 3 million tons would follow, depending on the condition of Russian refineries, he said. The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued a license on Oct. 9 authorizing the sale, delivery and import of Russian diesel, including shipments to the United States, until April 7, 2027. Trump predicted the supplies would bring down diesel prices, saying relief for American farmers, ranchers and truckers was a priority. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Novak said Moscow would immediately begin lifting its own diesel export restrictions ahead of schedule. He told that exports could reach 500,000 tons in November and 1 million tons in December, potentially rising to nearly 3 million tons a month later. Putin separately confirmed Russia’s readiness to supply oil and petroleum products to U.S. and global markets, saying the shipments would benefit the world economy. (Source: Hurriyet Daily News - Turkey)

Nobel Peace Prize

(10 October 2016)  The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to former International Criminal Court judge Pillay yesterday. Pillay, a former UN human rights chief, was recognised ’for her efforts to promote peace and international law", which paved the way for a ’more comprehensive global legal order’, the Nobel committee said. The South African's work had been "instrumental in ensuring that war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide are prosecuted", said the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Frydnes. Shortly afterwards, the 85-year-old reacted to the news from Nuremberg's Palace of Justice and thanked those who had gathered to applaud her. ’If you clap a little bit more I may share this prize with Trump,’ she joked. Trump has once again complained that he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize, calling this year's decision disgraceful and embarrassing. He has been outspoken about his desire to win the prize and made similar criticisms in 2025 when it was awarded to Venezuelan opposition Machado. Last year, the president openly expressed his displeasure at missing out on the prize, with the White House accusing the committee of placing politics over peace. Last year, Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre explained to Trump that it was an independent committee based in Norway, not the Norwegian government, that decided who will receive the prize. In January, Machado gifted her medal to Trump during a meeting at the White House, which she said was in recognition of his commitment to her country's freedom. Trump said on social media that the move was a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. The Nobel committee later clarified that the prize was not transferable. The decision is final and ’stands for all time.’ (Source: BBC - United Kingdom)

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Asia

India
10 Oct 2026  India has deployed thousands of police and paramilitary personnel in central Delhi and restricted transport in and around the capital ahead of a rally, called by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), a youth-based political movement, demanding the resignation of Kumar, the country’s chief election commissioner. Police have not authorised a rally in central Delhi, because they said the request was not made on time and that the CJP had violated undertakings given during earlier protests. ’The CJP began online as political satire’ in May after Chief Justice Kant called unemployed youth cockroaches. Since then, the CJP has garnered a large following among India’s youth. The July protests led Modi’s education minister to resign over exam paper leaks. Today’s is expected to be the biggest yet in a wave of near-daily protests over a revision of voter lists that has removed more than 130 million names that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The Election Commission says the exercise removes duplicate and ineligible voters and aims to prevent foreign illegal immigrants from voting. Authorities shut 57 metro stations from yesterday night, cancelled several long-distance trains and suspended mobile internet within 4km of the protest area until today night. The CJP says at least 10,000 people, including protesters travelling to Delhi by train, have been detained across the country. Bora, national president of the All India Students’ Association, has emerged as a leading face of the protests. The latest demonstrations come months before a series of state elections in early 2027. (Source: Al Jazeera - Qatar -, ’AFP (France) and (United Kingdom) Reuters’)

Oct 10, 2026 12:26 IST  Ties between India and the US hit a rough patch last year after Trump imposed an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods, taking the total levy to 50%, citing New Delhi's purchase of Russian oil. India imports 90% of its energy requirements. The 25% punitive tariffs were removed by the US earlier this year after Delhi and Washington reached a trade deal framework. India maintained that its energy decisions were guided by national interest and the need to ensure affordable supplies for its huge population - the same logic that Trump has given now to purchase diesel from Russia. Since the US-Iran war began this year, diesel prices have shot up by 70%. That's a huge jump for US farmers. Now, with the US itself set to purchase fuel from Russia - a move likely aimed at easing fuel prices ahead of the crucial midterm elections - the development comes weeks after Trump signed into law the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act, which gives him the power to impose tariffs up to 100% on countries like India and China that purchase Russian oil and gas. Can America tariff America? quipped Lincicome, vice president of Cato Institute, an American research organisation. Will Trump sanction the US? For now, Trump will be hoping that the Russia deal will persuade American voters that his promise of imminent economic relief is more than empty rhetoric. (Source: India Today)

Iran
10/10/2026 11:00 am  Bloomberg News, ’citing a Western official familiar with the matter, revealed’ that Russia has begun supplying missiles to Iran. This move aligns with a separate intelligence assessment prepared last June.    Media reports, citing Western officials, explained that despite the military attacks and intense strikes launched by the United States and Israel in previous times, Tehran was effectively able to maintain the infrastructure of missile and drone production factories (drones). ’Officials confirmed that Iran still possesses the full operational and industrial capacity to produce and develop weapons. Iran can also quickly rebuild and renew its defensive and offensive arsenal. ’A Western official stated’ that Iran continues to possess vast stockpiles of advanced ballistic missiles, it holds certain specialized anti-ship weapons and the Iranian military leadership has the capacity to increase the number of these missile systems and could accelerate their production at a record pace.   Bloomberg had previously indicated in a report dated June 12 - citing sources among Western allies - that Tehran may have already added modern Russian-made weapons to its arsenal. It also successfully rebuilt a significant and vital portion of its battlefield missile capabilities during the eight-week ceasefire. (Source: Voice of Emirates - headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Lebanon
10/10/2026 11:18 am  An official presidential memorandum, signed by Trump on September 30 and subsequently published in the U.S. Federal Register, indicated that the long-standing restrictions imposed by a series of earlier presidential directives — issued in 1985, 1992, 1998, and 2007 — were no longer necessary to ensure the security of aircraft operating flights to or from Lebanon and to protect them against unlawful seizure. Under Presidential Determination No. 2026-25, Trump fully revoked those four directives. An official date for the inaugural direct flight has not yet been set. Middle East Airlines announced last July that it possesses the fleet and aircraft capabilities required to operate a direct route between Beirut and New York. (Source: Voice of Emirates - headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

Pakistan
10.10.26, 11:51 AM  Pakistan has established a 'robust nuclear security regime' for protecting nuclear material and facilities, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said. The regime is continually improved through periodic reviews, while Pakistan's capacity-building infrastructure contributes to nuclear security expertise at the national, regional and international levels, the IAEA said. A seven-member IAEA team concluded a 12-day International Physical Protection Advisory Service (IPPAS) mission yesterday, conducted from September 28 to October 9 at the request of the Pakistani government. The mission was led by Mrabit, former director general of the Moroccan Agency for Nuclear and Radiological Safety and Security, and included experts from China, Romania, Russia and Slovakia, besides two IAEA staff members. Hosted by the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority (PNRA), the mission was completing its first physical protection advisory mission to the country. IPPAS missions assist countries in strengthening their national nuclear security regimes by providing peer advice on implementing international instruments and IAEA guidance for protecting nuclear and other radioactive material and associated facilities. Pakistan is a party to the Convention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material and ratified its 2005 Amendment in 2016. The mission reviewed the country's legislative and regulatory framework for nuclear security and assessed physical protection measures at a nuclear facility. The team met officials from the PNRA, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission and other stakeholders and visited the KANUPP Decommissioning Project at the Karachi Nuclear Power Generating Station. ’Pakistan's first nuclear power plant, the Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) reactor, began operations in 1971 and was permanently shut down in 2021. Experts observed ongoing decommissioning activities and spent-fuel storage at the site’. The IAEA said the team made recommendations and suggestions to further strengthen Pakistan's nuclear security regime and associated procedures while also identifying several good practices at the regulatory and facility levels. PNRA Chairman Shah said hosting the mission underscored Pakistan's commitment to maintaining a robust nuclear security regime and that the experts' findings provided a baseline for further strengthening its legal and regulatory framework and facility-level practices. "The first IPPAS mission in Pakistan is completed successfully, marking the country's commitment to further enhancing regulatory and operational aspects of its well-established nuclear security regime," IAEA Deputy Director General Herviou said. She also commended Pakistan's contribution to developing the skills of the nuclear security workforce, saying it had a far-reaching impact. The mission was the 112th IPPAS mission conducted by the IAEA since the programme began in 1995. (Source: The Telegraph India / PTI = India)

Saudi Arabia
(Saturday, October 10), 2026  The Saudis and the Houthis began fighting in 2015 when the kingdom entered Yemen’s civil war on behalf of the internationally recognized government. Relative calm after a 2022 ceasefire ended in July when the Houthis resumed attacks, saying the Saudis fired on the Sanaa airport as a plane from Iran was trying to land. That revived anger over the Saudi-led blockade that has largely isolated Houthi-run areas. Now the rebels are a way for Tehran to apply pressure on a key U.S. ally. The Houthis previously attacked dozens of ships after the war in Gaza began, calling it solidarity with Palestinians. A U.S. bombing campaign sharply limited that. The fighting has escalated, with the Saudi-led coalition providing air support for Yemeni government forces attempting to reverse recent Houthi gains along the Red Sea. The surge in attacks, including against other Saudi airports, military facilities and oil infrastructure, has come in the week since a Saudi-led coalition launched a major military offensive against the Houthis. While the Houthis have said they are only targeting Saudi shipping as part of a blockade in retaliation for the one imposed on them, concerns about wider attacks persist. The Houthis this week warned global airlines ’for the last time’ about the potential consequences of operating in Saudi airspace, which they described as a theater for their military operations. The missile and drone attacks and interception efforts create an increased risk of misidentification of civil aircraft. The Houthis claimed attacks earlier in the week on King Khalid International Airport that killed three Saudis, including a pilot. Houthi attacks on the Riyadh airport on Thursday damaged three planes. One of Saudi national carrier’s aircraft was damaged while it was on the ground, with no passengers on board. The latest attack on the international airport in Saudi Arabia’s capital of Riyadh killed 12 people and injured over 300 others, with some in critical condition. A missile struck a King Khalid International Airport complex housing terminals 3 and 4 for domestic flights. The Saudi statement said the dead included four Saudi citizens as well as two Bangladeshi nationals, a Palestinian, a U.S. citizen, an Egyptian, a Jordanian, a Syrian and a Sudanese. Airport operations were suspended, the closure was later extended by 24 hours until 9 p.m. tomorrow. The airport has no military facilities. The Saudi-led coalition fighting the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen blamed them for the attack, vowing a firm response. It was the deadliest attack in any Gulf Arab country since the start of the Iran war. There was no immediate statement from the rebels, who earlier today accused Saudi Arabia of striking Sanaa International Airport in the Houthi-held Yemeni capital. Saudi Arabia is running low on missile interceptors and has asked France, Britain, Pakistan and Egypt to deploy air defense support to the region, regional officials told last month, with one noting that the U.S. has seen its own stock dwindle during the war with Iran. The latest attack on the airport is expected to increase Saudi pressure on allies including the United States to provide military support for the kingdom, which has seemingly tried to avoid all-out war with the Houthis. Officials have said U.S. assistance has included intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for the latest offensive against the Houthis. Shortly after the attack today afternoon, U.S. President Trump said he was evaluating whether the U.S. should join Saudi strikes against the rebels. Trump later today said he planned to speak to Crown Prince Salman and said ’what happened in Saudi Arabia is not acceptable.” The attacks have rattled markets and the region. Saudi Arabia is the world’s top oil exporter. The Saudi energy ministry hours after the latest attack was still promoting a major international energy conference set to begin in Riyadh tomorrow. (Source: The Associated Press - U.S.)

Yemen
10/10/2026 10:32 am  Military hostilities between Houthi militias and Yemeni government forces — the latter backed by significant strategic support from the Arab Coalition. Amidst an escalation in military confrontations and violent exchanges of attacks between the two sides in recent days, the Saudi-led Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen released video footage showing its Yemeni forces clearing the strategic Bab al-Mandab area of Houthi militia control, as Houthi fighters abandoned their defensive positions, fleeing by boat across the sea. The battles coincide with intense attacks launched by the ’group’ using drones and ballistic missiles against targets and interests within Saudi territory. The official spokesman for the Coalition Forces, Major General Maliki, who released verified video footage on the “X” platform, emphasized that the ongoing, coordinated military efforts aim to secure international maritime navigation within this critical waterway. (Source: Voice of Emirates - headquarters: Dubai, United Arab Emirates)

United Nations

Oct 10, 2026 09:52 IST  Responding after Pakistan raised Jammu and Kashmir during the plenary meeting on Disarmament and International Security, India yesterday used its Right of Reply at the UN General Assembly's First Committee. In its response at the UN, India said peace remains its position, but made clear that it will respond to terrorism, reject nuclear blackmail and hold states responsible for backing non-state actors. Delivering India's response, Bedi, Senior Adviser (Disarmament) at the Permanent Mission of India to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, said Jammu and Kashmir is an integral and inalienable part of India. We call for India's illegally occupied territories to be vacated and returned, he said. Bedi told the committee that India's actions in May last year followed a grave provocation after the Pahalgam terror attack, in which 26 civilians were killed.   India has drawn three clear lines:   Any terrorist attack against India will receive a fitting response;   India will not bow to nuclear blackmail;   India will make no distinction between those who sponsor terrorism and those who mastermind it.   On the Indus Waters Treaty, Bedi said the agreement rested on good faith and goodwill when it was signed. After the Pahalgam attack, India said the treaty would be held in abeyance until Pakistan credibly and irrevocably ends 'its support for cross-border terrorism and other forms of terrorism'. On proliferation, Bedi referred to the history of the AQ Khan network, saying it had contributed to the adoption of Security Council Resolution 1540 nearly two decades ago. (Source: India Today)

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Panama
October 10 2026 09:58  A powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck near Pitaloza Arriba, southern Panama at a depth of 12.6 kilometers yesterday, damaging buildings and roads, injuring several people and prompting tsunami warnings across parts of the Pacific coast - including parts of Panama, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador and other neighboring countries - that were later lifted. Panamanian President Mulino described the situation as a major disaster during a visit to Penonomé, one of the affected cities, where several buildings and roads sustained serious damage. Some completely collapsed roads are complicating efforts to reach affected communities, including Tonosí, near the earthquake's epicenter. No deaths or missing persons had been reported as of yesterday evening, although emergency teams were continuing to assess the damage. A second earthquake measuring 6.6 struck near Río Grande later in the day, while dozens of aftershocks kept residents on alert. Operations at Tocumen International Airport resumed after a temporary suspension for safety inspections, while the Panama Canal Authority said shipping traffic continued normally. (Source: Hurriyet Daily News - Turkey)

North America

United States
10 October 2026  The Pentagon late yesterday raised the official death toll of US troops linked to military operations against Iran to 21. The updated figures also showed that 865 US service members had been wounded during the operations. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)

(Saturday), 10/10/2026 - 21:38 GMT+2  US President Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and blamed Ukraine's leader Zelenskyy for high US diesel prices. “I suggest they get a new leader who can make a deal because he could have made many deals and for some reason he never does,’ Trump told reporters at the White House today. Trump's statement comes after Zelenskyy denounced Washington's deal with Moscow to buy Russian diesel in an attempt to address high fuel prices ahead of the US midterm elections. Diesel prices in the US have surged since the US and Israel launched a joint attack on Iran on February 28. Both the wars in Iran and Ukraine have both contributed to a global energy crisis, yet Trump places the blame for soaring US diesel prices solely on Zelenskyy. He has previously urged the leader to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries and other critical infrastructure, saying the attacks are causing the global shortage. ’He (Zelenskyy) wants to make problems for the world. He wants to make problems for our farmers, our ranchers, with diesel fuel,’ Trump said yesterday. "And we told him, 'do whatever you want, but don't hit the diesel fuel, because there's a big problem. And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel,’ he added. "President Trump joins the many who believe that Ukraine needs leadership actually focused on peace, not Zelensky's warmongering," Dmitriev, the Kremlin's special envoy on economic cooperation, said in a post on X. ’European’ officials expressed dismay over the deal. ’This is not the time to ease pressure on Russia, and Europe won’t,’ EU's top diplomat Kallas wrote on X yesterday. On Monday, EU Foreign Ministers intend to approve the biggest set of sanctions listings targeting Russia’s war machine since the start of the war, she added. Sybiha, Ukraine's foreign minister said Zelenskyy ’has the support of the Ukrainian people’, and they have the right to decide. ’Statements from abroad only confirm that he is doing his job well'. He deserves support, he added in a social media post yesterday. Zelenskyy touted a series of conversations with European allies yesterday, including UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Macron. According to Downing Street, Burnham used the opportunity to reiterate his ’complete solidarity’ with Ukraine and pledged to continue to strengthen UK sanctions on Russia. Kyiv and Paris were preparing further meetings. (Source: Euronews - based in Lyon, France)

10/10/2026 - 15:39  Moscow has intensified its deadly bombardment of Ukraine in recent months, sending civilian casualties soaring, while US-led efforts to broker an end to the more than four-and-a-half-year conflict remain deadlocked. US President Trump, who has repeatedly touted his credentials as a peacemaker, has long sought to broker a deal since taking office last January. Trump today told reporters that Ukraine should get a new president, adding that ’Zelensky had disobeyed his orders not to strike Russian refineries’. This came after Washington moved to ease sanctions on Russian diesel. The announcement of the diesel deal came as US, Ukrainian and European officials were meeting in Miami yesterday, in a renewed diplomatic push to end the war. US envoy Witkoff posted to X after the meeting that the constructive discussions tackled potential avenues to de-escalate and conclude the war with Russia ahead of winter and advance efforts toward a durable and lasting peace. Witkoff said the meeting included ’the E3, the European Commission, Ukraine and NATO’. Ukraine's delegation was headed home today. The Kremlin said today that Trump had conveyed his ideas about how to de-escalate the war to Putin during a phone call yesterday. Putin received the proposals with understanding, the Kremlin said, without elaborating on what the proposals were or the Russian president's response. Early today, a Russian glide bomb attack on the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia killed 20 people. A Russian drone attack on Dnipropetrovsk region killed an 11-year-old boy. Russian strikes triggered large-scale power outages in Kyiv, Ukraine's DTEK energy provider said. AFP reporters heard booms over Kyiv earlier in the day. The Russian defence ministry said it had hit a data centre used by Ukraine's military. (Source: France 24 with AFP = France)

(Saturday), 10/10/2026 - 11:39  „US, Europe and Ukraine hold 'constructive discussions' on joint plan to end war. US, Ukrainian and European negotiators held talks in Miami on Friday to seek a common proposal to end the war in Ukraine, as President Trump's decision to ease restrictions on Russian fuel drew criticism from lawmakers and Zelensky. US, Ukrainian and European officials met in Miami yesterday in a renewed diplomatic push to end Russia's war in Ukraine, with Washington seeking a way out of the dangerous stalemate. The talks were overshadowed by US President Trump's announcement of a deal with Russian leader Putin to boost diesel supplies, underscoring how the conflict has become entwined with soaring energy prices. US envoy Witkoff posted to X after the meeting that the "constructive discussions" tackled "potential avenues to de-escalate and conclude the war with Russia ahead of winter and advance efforts toward a durable and lasting peace". Witkoff said the meeting included ’the E3, the European Commission, Ukraine and NATO’. The discussions covered energy resilience, grain exports, security guarantees and "longer-term arrangements for Ukraine's and Europe's security to prevent future conflict", Witkoff said. He also noted the "productive" exchange discussed supporting Ukraine's post-war reconstruction and economic prosperity, ’including EU accession’. Witkoff did not say if the parties would meet today as originally planned. The Miami meeting follows visits to Moscow and Kyiv last month by Witkoff, a longtime Trump confidant, and Kushner, the president's son-in-law, as Washington seeks to revive negotiations that have yielded little progress. US negotiators have since been developing fresh proposals with Russian and Ukrainian officials. Witkoff and Kushner briefed the president on their latest proposals on Thursday at a meeting also attended by Treasury Secretary Bessent and other senior officials, Axios reported. Secretary of State Rubio warned on Thursday that the conflict had reached a potentially explosive impasse, with the failure to reach a negotiated settlement raising the risk of further escalation. ’The other way that stalemates end is through escalation,’ Rubio told reporters in Lisbon, warning that the conflict could spread to neighboring NATO countries. We do not believe that there is a military solution to this conflict, he added. Trump has blamed Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries for surging fuel prices, ’although the US-Israeli war with Iran has been the principal disruptor’ of global energy supplies. Following a telephone call with Putin yesterday, Trump said Russia would immediately supply more than 300,000 tons of diesel to US and global markets, with another 500,000 tons to follow in November. The US Treasury Department said it was issuing a temporary license to allow Russian diesel to flow to global markets. It was not immediately clear whether Trump and Putin had discussed Ukraine during their call. With winter approaching, the prospect of continued fighting and attacks on vital infrastructure has added urgency to the search for a settlement. The renewed diplomacy comes against a backdrop of deadly Russian attacks, including a strike on buses in the frontline Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk that killed 30 people. The US administration hopes to make diplomatic headway ’before November's midterm elections’, with Washington also seeking to arrange broader talks involving Russia and Ukraine later this month. The Kremlin has signaled that such three-way negotiations could resume in October, although no date has been announced. (Source: France 24 „with AFP and Reuters”)

10.10.26, 12:18 PM  Addressing a rally in Syracuse yesterday, US President Trump said he deserved 8 Nobel Peace prizes for wars he settled and asserting that he had saved 50 million lives by preventing nuclear-armed India and Pakistan from going to war. 'The United States of America, represented by me as your president, should have received the Nobel peace prize, but didn't. And this is an indelible stain on the country of Norway, and those people that made such a disgraceful and embarrassing decision'. ’The Nobel peace prize has been forever discredited by a handful of radical ideologues who are anti-democracy and really enemies of civilisation. We will not forget, Norway, that you didn't give this prize,’ the US President said. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Pillay, the South African former UN human rights chief. ’The Nobel Prize was given out today (Friday) to a liberal person who works at the United Nations, who nobody has ever heard of. I've never heard of the person, but congratulations anyway," Trump said. Trump then listed the conflicts he claimed to have resolved and said he was on course to end two more: the Iran conflict and the Russia-Ukraine war. ’We will not forget Norway, that you didn't give this prize with the greatest record in history - eight wars, we should have had 8 Nobel Prizes for each war - but that you didn't give the Nobel Prize for Peace to the United States of America,’ Trump fumed. ’Additionally, I stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon and blowing up the entire Middle East and ultimately far beyond the Middle East, including Europe, perhaps the US and I saved more lives than anyone in history’, Trump said. Trump has repeatedly expressed resentment over Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, arguing that his predecessor 'got a prize for doing nothing.’ Four US presidents have received the Nobel Peace Prize: Roosevelt, Wilson, Carter and Obama, who won the award in 2009, his first year in office. (Source: The Telegraph India / PTI = India)

2026-10-10 08:48  US President Trump decided to proceed with a Russian diesel deal after Zelenskyy ignored six US requests to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries. A US official said Trump wanted Ukraine to stop the refinery attacks unilaterally because they were contributing to high gasoline prices in the United States. Trump also did not consider the Ukrainian strikes equivalent to Russian attacks on Ukraine’s power grid. The refinery attacks were hurting both Russia and the United States, the official said, accusing Zelenskyy of misreading the room. During eight hours of talks in Miami yesterday, Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner told a Ukrainian negotiating team that the president was expected to speak with Russian President Putin and lift sanctions on Russian diesel exports. Trump later said he had held a highly successful discussion with Putin. A Ukrainian official told that Witkoff and Kushner threatened that Trump could cut Ukraine off from US intelligence if Kyiv continued ignoring his requests. The US official denied that any such threat was made, saying the envoys told the Ukrainian delegation that Washington was a strong partner providing munitions and intelligence and that Ukraine should not take actions that hurt American consumers. (Source: Shafaq News - Kurdistan Region, Iraq)

West Asia

Sat, October 10, 2026 at 7:00 AM GMT+2  The Board of Peace (BoP) was first announced almost exactly a year ago to coincide with the start of the Gaza "ceasefire’ and the release of the remaining Israelis taken hostage by Hamas on Oct 7. It was then formally launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos this January, after receiving a quiet nod from the UN Security Council. At Davos, slides were presented showing how a shiny New Gaza would emerge from the rubble of the devastated Palestinian territory. They showed skyscrapers stretching along the Mediterranean coast, together with new housing, agriculture and business parks for the 2.1 million person population. There was even an airport. "I'm a real estate person at heart and it's all about location. And I said: 'Look at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people.' Mr Trump declared. At the same meeting, Mr Kushner added: ’In the beginning, we were toying with the idea of saying: 'Let's build a free zone, and then we have a Hamas zone.' And then we said: 'You know what, let's just plan for catastrophic success.'’ Five of Trump’s board of peace members are linked to a small Israeli arms company which has just landed a US military contract worth up to $150m (£112m). The company makes AI-driven rifle sights and drones that have been battle tested in Gaza. A second business is involved in financing the building of illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank. A third is being pursued in the US courts for allegedly helping Hamas conceal its Gaza terror tunnels in the run-up to the Oct 7 attacks. For the icing on the cake, take your pick between a multibillion-dollar investment in a new Trump International golf course in Doha or a cyber-security business set up by the same computer engineer who created the notorious Pegasus phone-hacking software. These are a few of the potential conflicts of interest in Trump's BoP, the US-led body charged with ending the war in Gaza and rebuilding the decimated Palestinian enclave. More than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since the „ceasefire’ came into force a year ago. Two thirds of its 2.1 million people are living in tents and makeshift shelters. There are competing views on the principles of governance. Many critics had characterised the BoP as a recipe for kleptocratic oligarchy from the start. They say the important business of ending wars and rebuilding nations should be dealt with by professional diplomats. Others counter that business is the motor of the organisation. By aligning the financial interests of those across the region, conflict will ultimately give way to peace. Well-placed sources said the organisation's major challenges were political rather than economic, and that behind the scenes real progress was being made. Once the Israeli and US midterm elections are out of the way, they expect the very substantial groundwork laid for the governance and rehabilitation of Gaza to start in earnest. The conflicts of interest that are most apparent stem mainly from the confluence of Arab oil riches and American investment management and real estate ventures. ’Many of the investments channelled into Israeli arms firms and settlements by key players on the BoP have been made with money from sovereign Arab funds’. Are the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) aware of where their money is going, and how might their citizens react if and when they find out? If the investments are withdrawn, how might that affect the already fragile functioning of the board? Business interests are shared ultimately to prove a force for good in Gaza across all four levels of the board. The main board is made up of 28 world leaders. On the main board of the BoP sits Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Thani, the emir of Qatar, and Nahyan, the president of the UAE. All have clear political interests in seeing the Gaza war ended and the strip rebuilt. But all have also committed very substantial sums via their country's sovereign wealth funds to Affinity Partners, a private equity investment firm run by Mr Kushner. The fund is reported to have secured total capital commitments of between $3.5bn and $5bn since its launch in 2021, with the vast bulk of that money coming from the Gulf. Mr Kushner sits on both executive boards of the BoP alongside other Mr Trump's acolytes, businessmen, including Witkoff, the US real estate mogul and special envoy, the billionaire financier Rowan, Gabay, a Cypriot-Israeli property billionaire based in Cyprus, but also Sir Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. Also on the executive board is Edelman, a wealthy lawyer who is close to the UAE and sits on the board of the troubled Manchester City football club. Insiders say Mr Kushner is the prime mover in the senior ranks of the BoP. He is seen as the face of the board of peace. In Mr Trump's first term, Mr Kushner landed the Abraham Accords, the administration's most significant foreign policy achievement. A year later he launched Affinity Partners on the back of the agreements. But might some of the investments Affinity Partners made before the BoP was established cause blowback? As reported last week by CNN, Affinity Partners holds a 7.4 per cent stake in Phoenix Financial, a Tel Aviv insurance and investment business that in turn invests in a series of companies linked to the Israeli military. The Telegraph found that one of those companies – a small Israeli defence firm called Smart Shooter Ltd – beat off competition from more established players to win a US military contract worth up to $150m. The deal was announced on Sept 30 by Mor, the company's founder and chief executive. Upon the news, the company's shares jumped by about 20 per cent. Smart Shooter makes an AI-driven rifle sight called Smash, which has been battle tested in Gaza by the Israel Defense Forces for the last three years. At the time of Smart Shooter's debut on the Israeli stock market in March this year, Phoenix Financial was the largest institutional shareholder in the company with a 17 per cent stake, then worth about $64m. It is not known what Phoenix's shareholding is today. Mr Kushner and his Gulf investment partners do not have a direct holding in Smart Shooter – their exposure to the company is via Phoenix Financial. Do they stand to profit from it? Also on the executive board of the BoP is Mr Rowan, chairman and chief executive of Apollo Global Management, one of the world's biggest investment funds. Apollo has long worked with Phoenix and, in September 2023, announced a $2bn deal through which Phoenix would act as a strategic partner for Apollo in Israel. It does not hold stock in the company. Phoenix Financial backs companies helping to build Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, according to the Who Profits Research Center, a research group that tracks investments in the occupied Palestinian territories. Its listing of deals done by Phoenix Financial, correct as of April 18, 2026, involving the occupied territories includes 11 companies named in the latest UN watchlist of companies involved in the West Bank. They include major Israeli construction, engineering, transport, communications and security firms. The settlements, while deemed illegal under international law, are permitted under Israeli law, allowing international investors to gain exposure to them through local investment vehicles with minimum risk. They may pose more immediate potential conflict of interests for BoP members, as the UK and other European states ratchet up sanctions against companies involved in the settlements. Not all the potential conflicts of interest at the BoP run in the same direction. Jaradat is the hard-working and well-respected head of reconstruction and infrastructure within the BoP's office of the high representative. She is well-qualified for the position having been the lead executive in the building of Rawabi, a vast new Palestinian city in the West Bank. Backed by Gulf money, Rawabi is about the closest thing to the model envisaged for the rebuilding of Gaza. It is Palestine's only planned city, with 6,000 homes housing a population of between 25,000 and 40,000 people spread across six neighbourhoods. That is what it should have been until Israel limited its water supply and road access. Ms Jaradat's boss, the Palestinian-American billionaire Masri, and his companies are being pursued in the US civil courts by lawyers acting for more than 200 US survivors of Oct 7 and the Gaza conflict. The case alleges that he knew about Hamas tunnels under two Gaza seaside hotels he owns, tunnels which it is claimed the terrorist group accessed from guest rooms. The plaintiffs also allege the group powered its underground fortifications with electricity from solar panels in an industrial zone Mr Masri operated. Lawyers acting for Mr Masri describe the October 2023 attacks on Israel as barbaric acts of terrorism, and as defendants unequivocally condemn Hamas's violence and the suffering it inflicted upon innocent civilians, adding that the plaintiffs had failed to show Mr Masri knew his conduct could aid Hamas in staging attacks.The case was moved to the discovery phase by a judge in Florida last week. Mr Masri and his companies are heavily backed by Qatari sovereign wealth funds. Qatari Diar, a global real estate vehicle owned by the Qatar Investment Authority, is a major investor in Mr Masri's Rawabi project. It is also financing the new, luxury 18-hole golf course – the Trump International Golf Club - being built in Simaisma near Doha. The gated residential development is scheduled to begin on-site construction early next year. The opening of off-plan villa sales was announced in London this week. Mr Trump has a knack for making money alongside US foreign policy initiatives. Congressional reports, watchdog investigations and financial ledgers highlight multiple instances where foreign governments or state-backed entities spent heavily at properties operating under the Trump name or entered licencing agreements as diplomatic initiatives unfolded. At a side meeting of the UN General Assembly in New York two weeks ago, representatives of the BoP were more down to earth. Mr Kushner conceded that the Gaza recovery plan faced ’different delays on different things, for whatever reason’. ’We're really fully committed to doing it, he told the meeting of board members and stakeholders. He was joined by Mr Witkoff, who said that real progress had been made. "Only through hard work, diligence and patience will we come together and resolve this," he added. Insiders pointed to extensive planning and detailed groundwork that had been completed over the past six months by the BoP in preparation for the rehabilitation of Gaza. The new national committee for the administration of Gaza had been recruited and prepared and was ready to be deployed as soon as it was given the go-ahead. An international stabilisation force, made up of soldiers from six independent countries, was also ready to go, and the first recruits for the planned Gaza police force had been selected. Hamas had formally agreed to a BoP-approved plan to give up its weapons in exchange for a phased withdrawal of Israeli troops – a breakthrough announced by Mr Trump in late July. Sources said that little dramatic movement was expected before the conclusion of the US midterms and Israeli elections, but a new push from the US was expected in November. A winterisation package and talks on improved water and sanitation for Gaza were being discussed between the parties. They thought a US push would come even if the Israeli elections on Oct 27 proved ’inconclusive’. Both the Israelis and Hamas had signed up to Mr Trump's original 20-point peace plan and, one way or another, they would be made to honour it. Mr Trump is said to be determined for his Gaza plan to come to fruition. Mr Kushner showed no sign of giving up on the BoP on Friday, firmly rejecting the idea that Affinity's investment in Phoenix compromised him or any other member of the board. ’The premise of the potential conflict you describe is misleading,’ Affinity said in a statement sent to The Telegraph. "Affinity Partners invested in Phoenix Financial, one of Israel's largest publicly traded and highly regulated financial institutions, which manages approximately $220bn in assets. Phoenix is not a defence company. Like major financial institutions around the world, it manages diversified portfolios containing thousands of securities on behalf of its clients. "Affinity does not own or control Smart Shooter or the other companies referenced in your inquiry. Any exposure through Phoenix's managed portfolios is indirect, and Affinity has no involvement in selecting or managing those underlying investments. "Our investment in Phoenix was publicly disclosed and made before President Trump returned to office and before Jared resumed his diplomatic work as a volunteer. "More fundamentally, the entire premise of this allegation misunderstands the purpose of Jared's work. He has volunteered his time to help end wars, stop the killing and build the conditions for lasting peace. "Jared has never taken a diplomatic action to benefit Affinity Partners, himself, or any of its investors." Apollo stressed it did not hold stock in Phoenix Financial but had a credit origination partnership with the business through which "Phoenix can invest in credit (loans, bonds, etc) that Apollo originates. An Apollo spokesman added: "Apollo owns 0 per cent of Phoenix and has neither direct nor indirect exposure to companies that Phoenix might invest in. Through our lending partnership, Phoenix can access credit opportunities that Apollo originates, and that partnership accounts for less than half of 1 per cent of our [assets under management]. "Mr Rowan's role on the Board of Peace is a not-for-profit service on a US-government sponsored Board. These are the facts, and there is no conflict of interest.' The Office of the High Representative for Gaza is headed by Mladenov, a widely respected Bulgarian diplomat. (Source: Yahoo - U.S. / The Telegraph - United Kingdom)

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A mohácsi csatáról, előzményeiről és következményeiről,

a magyar és a világtörténelemre gyakorolt hatásairól.

A pénzgazdálkodás kezdete - 15. század - óta, Európában egyedül Magyarországon
termeltek számottevő aranyat. A pénznek a fedezete az arany.
Egész Európában az utolsó ország, aki még nem tért át a bankházak
- Medici, Fugger és mások - által diktált pénzgazdálkodásra, az Magyarország volt.
1526. augusztus 29.-ig
- ma úgy mondanánk 'a nemzetközi nagytőke': multinacionális nagy cégek, a Világbank,
a Valutaalap, a Black Rock-tól kezdve a Soros Alapítványig - senki sem tudott
Magyarország belügyeibe beleszólni. Amikor Szulejmán győzött a csatatéren,
az első két üzenet meglepő helyről érkezett. A Velencei Signoria üzent a szultánnak:
'Gratulálunk, csak így tovább. A másik Fugger: 'Most legalább mindenki megtudta,
hogy mi lesz vele, mi vár rá, ha a Fugger bankháznak nem engedelmeskedik.

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mohácsi csata

előzményeiről, következményeiről

-  a csatáról magáról

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Magyarország leírása

    Hungáriát vagy a hunokról, vagy a hungárokról (magyarokról) nevezték így el, mivel mindkét nép Scythiából kiindulva itt telepedett le. A Duna, ez az összes európai folyók legnagyobbika, végigfolyik a közepén, és felosztja inneni és túlnani vidékekre. Ulmnál ered a Fekete-erdőben. (Mi most úgy beszélünk, mintha Budán lennénk, mely a királyság székhelye.) A Dunán-inneni rész az, ahol valaha a két Pannónia volt. Határai a következők: a Dunán túl való részek felől a Duna, azután Ausztria és Noricum, Bécsnél a Caecuis-hegység nyúlványai (hajdanában így hívták), Szlavónia felől a Dráva, Bosznia és Rácország felől a Száva folyók. Ugyanis azokon a Dunával szomszédos vidékeken, amelyek Belgrád közelében vannak, egészen a Száva folyó torkolatáig terjed, ahol az beleömlik a Dunába; Valpót, Pozsegát és Szerémet pedig, e három híres tartományt (a mi elnevezésünkkel vármegyét) Szlavóniától különválasztja.
    Ennek az Innenső-Magyarországnak a fővárosa az előbb említett Buda, a királyság székhelye. Nevezetesebb városai Székesfejérvár, mely a királykoronázásokról és királysírokról nevezetes, Esztergom, a prímási székhely, Pécs, püspöki székhely, azután Sopron, Győr, Szombathely, Szent Márton városa, Stridon pedig Hieronymus szülőföldje. Sok nevezetes folyó van arra a Dunán és a Dráván kívül, melyeket fentebb említettünk. Két igen híres tava, a Balaton és a Fertő. Az egyik kb. tizenhárom mérföldnyire húzódik hosszúságban, a másik nem olyan hosszú, de a Balatonnál sokkal szélesebb. Ehhez az Innenső-Magyarországhoz van csatolva Szlavónia, a hajdani Felső-Pannóniának a Száva és a Dráva közötti része, de már jóval túlterjed a Száván, egészen az Unna folyóig (mert most így hívják), ahol Horvátország kezdődik. Mögötte van Dalmácia az Adriai-tenger partján: részben velencei, részben török fennhatóság alatt, csak egészen kicsiny része tartozik a magyar király uralma alá. A földközi-tengeri vidékeket a boszniaiak és a rácok tartják kezükben, azok, akiket hajdanta felső-moesiaiaknak neveztek. Szlavónia fővárosa Zágráb: püspöki székhely, Horvátországé pedig most Biheg, valamikor Tininum, Dalmácia azon részéé, amely magyar fennhatóság alatt van, Zeng, Boszniáé Jajca; Rácországban, vagy más szóval Szerbiában pedig Belgrád a főhely: ily módon helyezkedik el innenső Magyarország és azok a vidékek, amelyek a Duna és az Adriai-öböl között vannak.
    A Dunán túlnani Magyarországot a Pozsony fölött kezdődő és hosszú kanyarral a Fekete-tengerig húzódó Kárpátok választják el Morvaországtól, Sziléziától, Lengyelországtól és Oroszországtól, egészen addig a vidékig, melyet Mórmarosnak hívunk. Innét már más hegyek és erdők, melyek Turnu Severinig húzódnak, választják el Magyarországot Erdélytől és Oláhországtól. Ezen Túlsó-Magyarország közepén a mármarosi sóbányák környékén eredő Tisza folyó folyik keresztül az északi folyók közül, amennyire eddig hallani lehetett, halban a leggazdagabb.
    Több kisebb folyón kívül két hajózható is ömlik belé, a Szamos és a Maros, mindkettő Erdélyben ered. Ennek a Túlsó-Magyarországnak nevezetesebb városai: északon Pozsony, Nagyszombat (Tyrnavia), Trencsén, azután ugyanitt van a Vág folyó, mely Komárom mellett folyik a Dunába, majd a Nyitra és csaknem ugyanott Beszterce jó néhány bányavárossal, melyek arany-, ezüst- és rézbányáikról nevezetesek. Tovább van Vác, Pest-Budával szemben, Eger, Kassa meg a Szepesség jó néhány nevezetes városa; délen Kalocsa, Bács, Szeged; a Tiszántúl: Várad, Debrecen, Nagybánya arany- és ezüstbányákkal; Csanád püspöki székhely és a híres-nevezetes Temesi vár, mely az ország kapitányságai közül a harmadik helyen áll; Szörény, ahol a hajdani Traianus császár által épített hídnak a romjai még most is láthatók, és más helyek, melyeket itt bővebben felsorolni nem lehet a történetírásra kötelező szűkszavúság miatt. Maga a Tisza a jeles titeli prépostság táján ömlik a Dunába. Ez a prépostság nincs messze Péterváradtól, és a Tisza innenső partján fekszik. Azokon a hegyeken túl, melyek a Kárpátoktól Severinig terjednek, van Erdély, valamikor Dácia egy része. Fővárosa Gyulafejérvár, vagy Iulius Caesarról, vagy még inkább Gyuláról, egy régi hun fejedelemről ígyen elnevezve. Itt igen sok nevezetes város van, köztük Szeben, Brassó, Kolozsvár, Beszterce, azután még sok más, melyeket a germánok, akiket mi szászoknak hívunk, alapítottak és laknak. Itt vannak a siculusok is, köznapi nyelven szólva: székelyek, zord, háborúzást kedvelő emberfajta. Nincs köztük nemes, nincs köztük paraszt, valamennyien egyforma joggal bírnak, akárcsak a svájciak.
    Erdély maga mindenben nagyon gazdag, főleg arany, ezüst és más ércekben; ehhez járulnak még a sóhegyek. Pompás lovakat tenyésztenek itt, borban is bővelkedik, noha ezek nem olyan kiválóak, mint Magyarországon és Szlavóniában. Erdélyt övezi a két Oláhország, az Alpeseken túli és Moldva: az a Dunával, ez a Fekete-tengerrel határos, ketten együtt pedig Erdéllyel egyetemben Európának ama vidékén fekszenek most, amely valaha Dácia volt. Így annak az egész, Dunán túl fekvő résznek, mely nemcsak Túlsó-Magyarországot, de Erdélyt és a két Oláhországot is magában foglalja, a Duna, a Kárpátok, a Fekete-tenger, majd ismét a Duna képezi a határait.
    Ennyit Magyarország általános fekvéséről.
    Most hátra van még azokról a vidékekről szólni kissé részletesebben, amelyre ennek a háborúnak a teljes ereje rázúdult.
    Buda alatt a Duna partja mellett haladván lefelé, némely kevésbé jeles falut nem számítva Paks, majd Tolna következik tizenhat magyar mérföldnyire Budától. Utána van Báta, Báta alatt Mohács a Duna partja mellett. Mohácstól jobbra fekszik Pécs városa már földközi-tengeri vidéken, s ez előtt a vész előtt Magyarországon elég nevezetes volt; négy mérföldre, vagy valamivel távolabb a Dunától és három mérföldnyire a Drávától. A Dráva irányában fekszik Siklós, a Dráván túl Valpó büszke várával. Mohácstól a Dráváig négy mérföld, vagy alig több a távolság. Azon hely fölött, ahol a Dráva a Dunába ömlik, a túlsó parton van Eszék, és ugyanott egy nagy város romjai abból az időből, amikor még a rómaiaké volt Pannónia. A római település a Dráva-torkolattól csak két mérföldnyire van. Eszék mellett a Dráva szűk mederbe kényszerül, s ezért alkalmas hely a hídverésre. Ezt fel is használták a mieink: mikor Belgrád elveszett, hidat emeltek itt, hogy a hadsereg átvonulhasson rajta. Eszék után következik Erdőd, a titeli prépostság vára, ez a hely mindenünnen erdőktől van körülfogva, és a természet kedvezéséből csekély fáradsággal igen jól megerősíthető. Utána következik Barcs, Valkó, Zatha, sőt itt van Bács is, melyet említettünk, Magyarország második főpapi városa. Mint a többi vidék, ez is mezei lapályon terül el, amely a Duna-Tisza között fekszik, füves, sík terület, s ezért barmok nevelésére elsősorban alkalmas. Zathánál ugyanazon a parton van Újlak, igen szép várral ékeskedő város, itt tárul elénk először az az áldott, termékeny vidék, a Szerémség. Nemcsak borait dicsérik egész északon, de minden megterem itt, amivel csak él az ember! Sok császárnak, sőt, ahogy a római annalesek írják, egy pápának is szülőföldje és táplálója. Valamikor ugyanilyen nevű városáról is nevezetes volt, melynek állítólag még megvannak a romjai. Csodálatosan szép ez a vidék, csodás földjének termékenysége, hihetetlen az éghajlat enyhesége. Ez már csak azért is így van, mivel ez a vidék az Adriai-tengertől csupán három-, de legföljebb négynapi járásra van. Újlakról vissza Sirmium felé haladva elsőnek Bácsmonostor tűnik elénk, a szerémi püspökség székhelye, majd mielőtt Péterváradra érnél, ott van Kamanc híres városa. Mögötte fekszik Pétervárad, fellegvárával együtt, a kalocsai egyházmegye fennhatósága alatt. Ezt a helyet Belgrád elvesztése óta Belgrádunknak tartjuk. Azután következik Zalánkemén és még több, nem különösebben nevezetes város, melyeket a fent említett belgrádi csatavesztés alkalmával a török földig lerombolt. Aztán abban a szögletben, ahol a Száva a Dunába ömlik, van Zemlén városa: e vár és Belgrád között fekszik a Száva-torkolat. A betorkolló folyó másik szögletében van az a Belgrád, amely annyi nevezetes, törökkel vívott csatáról lett híres. Ennek az ostromától, mikor már-már elesett, verte vissza hajdan Murádot, a törökök császárját hírünk-nevünk legnagyobb dicsőségére Hunyadi János, Mátyás király atyja, Magyarország kormányzója, Kapisztrán János baráttal egyetemben. Ezt a várat mi Nándorfejérvárnak hívjuk, sőt egyesek Görögfejérvárnak; az ókorban Taurinumnak nevezték. Azon az oldalon, amerről Magyarország felé néz, meredek sziklára épült. Alatta van ugyanezen a néven a város. Egyik oldalán a Dunába ömlő Szávára tekint, a másikról az elfolyó Dunára.
    Hát ilyenforma Magyarország! ilyenek azok a vidékek, ahol akkora vész zúdult ránk. Mert hogy elsoroljam Magyarország gazdagságát, mellyel Európa valamennyi országa közül kiválik (ha igazán szólhatok), külön kötetre volna szükség. Mi csak a fekvését akartuk olvasóink elé tárni, hogy áttekinthetőbb legyen előttünk.
    Folytassuk tehát, amibe belefogtunk. A király, amint meghallotta, hogy a törökök csapatai már átkeltek a Száván, attól tartott, hogy az átkelés után nyomban a Dráva partjaira és a fent említett Eszék városa alá sietnek annak elfoglalására. Eltökélte tehát, hogy azt a helyet erősségül megtartja. Rábízta ezt a dolgot a palatinus grófra, aki ekkor nem messze a Drávától, fivére várában tartózkodott. Noha igen fájt a lába, evvel az üggyel mégis nyomban serényen törődött, azonban azok, akiknek megparancsolta, hogy odajöjjenek, vagy csapataikat küldjék el, a parancsot késedelmesebben teljesítették, mint illett volna, a nádor így hasztalan akarta végrehajtani azt, amibe belefogott, s ezért Budára ment a királyhoz. Itt bevádolta azok nemtörődömségét, akik nem akartak megjelenni előtte, majd a királynál is maradt mint az ellenséggel szembeinduló királyi had kísérete.
    Ugyanezen időben körülbelül a király titkos követ útján valakitől megtudta, aki az ellenség terveit és dolgai állását igen jól kikémleltette, hogy legokosabb volna, ha az erdélyi vajda az oláhországi vajdával egyetemben hátba támadná a mit sem sejtő ellenséget (a király ugyanis meg volt győződve a vajda iránta való hűségéről). Vagy pedig, míg az egyenesen a királlyal készül szembeszállani, ők egyesült erővel rohanják meg Thráciát, ahonnan minden katonai erőt kivontak, és így az fog bekövetkezni, hogy vagy szívében verik tönkre az ellenséget, vagy legalábbis eltérítik szándékától, és rákényszerítik, hogy saját országának védelmére siessen. Ez a tanács először gyanúsnak tűnt fel nem egy oknál fogva, melyeket fölemlíteni hosszú lenne. De aztán közölték az esztergomi prímással, s mert ő is helyeselte a tervet, megparancsolták Erdély vajdájának Batthyányi Orbán által, akit akkor véletlenül Moldvába küldtek, hogy mint aki jobban ismeri a helyzetet, azt cselekedje, amit inkább az állam érdekében valónak fog találni. Ha úgy találja hasznosabbnak, a saját és Erdély erejét a román vajdával együtt fordítsa ama vidék ellen. Ez a körülmény lehetett aztán nagyrészt az oka annak, hogy a vajda nem tudott megjelenni a csata idejére.
    Mikor már ezekről szó esett, nemcsak itt volt, de el is múlott a tolnai gyülekezésre kitűzött idő, és még senkiről sem hallatszott, hogy odaérkezett volna. Úgy látszott, mintha mindenki csak a királyt figyelné, mintha nem akarnának addig Tolnára menni, míg meg nem hallják, hogy ott a király. Közben napról napra erősödtek a hírek a török további előrehaladásáról, végül megtudták, hogy már át is kelt a Száván, néhány útjába eső várat földúlt, Péterváradot ostromolja, és már hevesen szorongatja a várat szárazon és vízen (mivel a város nemigen volt megerősítve).
    Ekkor végre a király, noha sem Csehországból, sem máshonnan mindaddig semmit sem kapott, és csak igen csekély számú csapatai voltak, mégis, nehogy úgy lássék, mintha ekkora országos veszedelemben valamit is elmulasztott volna, ami rajta állott, július 24-én Budáról kicsiny kísérettel kivonult, hogy a Duna partja mellett lassan Tolna felé haladjon. Közben abban bízott, hogy mások is csatlakozni fognak hozzá. Kevéssel a király ezen Budáról való eltávozása előtt somlyói Báthory Istvánt az erdélyi vajdához küldték, hogy hagyja meg neki, miszerint minden más tervet félretéve, összes csapataival siessen a királyhoz, mivel az ellenség jelenléte már csak ezt követeli. Amikor a király Budáról kivonult, avval együtt, ami Mária királynéé és az esztergomi érseké volt, lovas és gyalogos katonája volt neki körülbelül háromezer.
    Azon a napon, mikor Budáról eltávoztunk, Sárkány Ambrus városon kívüli jószágához érkeztünk, két mérföldnyire Budától. Érdnek hívják ezt a helyet. Itt a királynak hirtelen betegségben elpusztult az a lova, melyet valamennyi közül a legjobban kedvelt, mert a legkiválóbb volt. Hihetetlenül bántotta ez, sokan pedig rossz előjelnek tekintették. Várt itt a király jó néhány napig, de senki sem csatlakozott hozzá. Erre ugyanazzal a kis sereggel, amellyel odaérkezett, továbbment a szomszéd faluig, Ercsiig. Itt is sok napot töltött el hasztalan, de csak Báthory András csatlakozott hozzá akkor az előkelők közül nem megvetendő számú csapatokkal. A Duna partja mellett Penteléig mentünk, arra a helyre, amely olyan régi, hogy mint Eszékről is említettük, valamilyen római település romjait őrzi. Itt várt ránk az erdélyi vajda izenetével Bácsy György. Az izenet lényege a következő volt: a vajda kétségben van afelől, mit kell tennie, a különféle utasítások miatt, melyek hozzá ama napokban küldettek. Először is érkeztek hozzá királyi levelek, majd többszörönte hírnökök is (köztük Vingárti Horváth Gáspár, a királyi étekfogómester is), akik mind a királyhoz szólították. Aztán jött hozzá Batthyányi Orbán valami olyasféle tervezettel, hogy az ellenséget a román vajdával együtt támadják hátba, legutoljára pedig hozzáérkezett somlyói Báthory István, aki ismét az előbbi parancsot ismételte meg, viszont nem vonta vissza kereken azokat sem, amelyeket Batthyányi adott tudtára, és hát így most nem tudja, mit kell tennie a sok változó terv közül, mi az, amit végre kell hajtania. Ő mindenre kész, amit a királyi felség parancsol. Előtte az a terv látszik a leghasznosabbnak, mely őt a királyhoz rendeli. Késő van már arra, hogy hátba támadják a törököt: egyrészt igen veszedelmes, másrészt sokkal nehezebb is volna végrehajtani, mint azelőtt, még ha nagyon jól ütne is ki. Mert már a román vajdát, akivel neki ezt végrehajtani kellene, arra kényszerítenék, hogy a török császár udvarába küldje egyetlen fiát túszként.
    Miután a király Bácsy Györgytől ezeket megtudta, reggel Földvárra indult (így hívják a Duna ugyanazon oldatán elterülő városkát) onnan, ahol Bácsy kifejtette ura izenetét. Majd behívta Györgyöt az államtanácsba, és meghagyta neki, hogy éjjel-nappal, amennyire csak tud, siessen a vajdához: a király megfelelőnek találja a vajda tervét. Ha egyszer az ellenfél átlépte az ország határát, és szembeközeledik, akkor ez a szokás járja! Tehát minden más szándékot és tervet félretéve siessen a vajda a királyhoz valamennyi erdélyi vagy egyéb csapattal, amellyel a király táborába jöttében találkozik, és akit csak tud, vonjon mindenkit a király táborába, nemcsak a nemeseket és katonákat, de még a parasztokat is. Levelek íródnak az erdélyiekhez, levelek ama tartomány püspökéhez, Gosztonyi Jánoshoz, a királyné kancellárjához, levelek magához a vajdához, mégpedig olyanok (György tanácsára, aki azt mondotta, az ura óhajtotta így), hogy azokat másoknak is megmutathassa, hogy könnyebben mozduljanak tőlük. Éppen ezért a szokottnál szigorúbb hangon voltak írva, és különbeni hűtlenség vádja alatt utasították a vajdát, hogy éjjelt-nappalt egybevéve siessen a királyhoz. Hogy e dolog könnyebben és gyorsabban intéződjék, Bácsy György mellé adták Statilius Jánost, egy éles eszű, gyors felfogású, nem csekély irodalmi műveltségű embert, aki Beriszló Péter veszprémi püspök és mártoni bánnak, e békés és háborús teendőkben egyformán hírneves férfiúnak nővérétől való unokaöccse volt. A többiek még nem távoztak el a király mellől, mikor megjött a baljós hír: Pétervárad az ellenség kezére került. A mieink éjjel-nappal bátran védelmezték, de már majdnem valamennyi védője elesett, a falait pedig, melyek igen régiek, s ezért nem éppen jó állapotban övezték a várat, a sűrűn aláhulló gyújtólövegek döntötték a földre. Az ellenség most tehát szárazon és vízen siet a többi, szomszédos vár felé, különösen pedig Újlak alá, hogy megvívja.
    A király megdöbbent erre a hírre, és csak annál jobban siettette azokat, akiket a vajdához küldött, ezenfelül leveleket íratott mindenfelé. Követeket küldött György szepesi grófhoz, aki állítólag Székesfejérvártól nem messze állt ötezer emberrel; Batthyányi Ferenchez, a horvát bánhoz, Kristóf grófhoz, akiről az a hír járta, hogy már otthagyta Ferdinándot, és Horvátországba érkezett az apjához. Csak fegyvert, lovat és házi katonaságát veszi magához, hogy jobban fölszerelve menjen a királyhoz. Ezenkívül Macedóniai Lászlót sebesen a királynéhoz küldik, és kérik tőle, hogy Ferdinánd bátyját, vagy annak távollétében Ausztria elöljáróit sürgesse meg a régen megígért segítség dolgában. Amint csak lehet, küldjék meg a királynak, legfőképpen pedig az ágyúkat. Azt hallottuk ugyanis, hogy az ellenség igen jól fel van velük szerelve, mi azonban nem nagyon voltunk. Aztán még, hogy a királyné sürgesse meg a cseheket is azoknak a cseh csapatoknak a dolgában, akiknek a megfogadására a saját magánpénztárából adott pénzt egy főnemesnek, a morva Mezerickynek. Levelekkel sürgették Nádasdy Tamást, akit Ferdinándhoz küldtek, hogy kitartóan kérje, mondja el neki az ország, a király végveszedelmét, főként Pétervárad elestét, nehogy a főherceg, akit a királyhoz rokoni kötelék és még a közös veszedelemből fakadó kapcsolat is fűz, elhagyja a királyt ekkora bajban. Ugyancsak utasítják Nádasdyt, járjon el a birodalom többi fejedelménél is, akik ebben az időben, mint fentebb mondottuk, Speyerben voltak birodalmi gyűlésen.
    Közben Tomori Pál még Pétervárad megvívása előtt, mivel csupán kétezer katona volt vele, őrült vakmerőségnek vélte, ha ekkora ellenséges tömeggel szembeszáll: tehát mintegy ezer gyalogost és kevés lovast hagyott hátra a várban. Ezekről már mondottuk, hogy a vár védelmében az ellenség kezétől elestek; ő azonban átment a Duna túlsó felére, és itt, amennyire csak tudta, szárazon és vízen késleltette az ellenség gyors előrenyomulását. A Dunán is volt ugyanis hajóhada abból a fajtából, melyet mi naszádnak nevezünk, s ezek nem is voltak éppen kevesen, csakhogy az ellenséghez viszonyítva távolról sem elegen.

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Brodarics István „De conflictu Hungarorum cum Turcis ad Mohatz verissima descriptio” című műve Krakkóban, 1527-ben, a mű magyar nyelvű ezen fordítása Kardos Tibortól Budapesten, 1961-ben jelent meg.

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Trump és Hszi washingtoni találkozójáról, a vámháborús tűzszünet meghosszabbításáról, Kína közel-keleti szerepéről; 
Feltételezett szabotázsról, evakuáltak több lengyel határátkelőt, orosz csapások a térségben;
Kárpáti Nyolcak kezdeményezésről, titkos Patriot rakéta-egyezségről, magyar–ukrán diplomáciai összezördülésről; 
Macron gázai kritikája, Netanyahu vitatott ENSZ-beszéde kellő megvilágításba helyezve.
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(Friday), 12/06/2026 - 14:31 GMT+2  Plans to relocate asylum seekers - watered down. The European Union's new Pact on Migration enters into force today. The pact includes eight legislative acts, which together are meant to improve member states' cooperation on migration management, hold frontline states to stricter standards for minimising irregular entries into the EU, and speed up asylum procedures. The bloc finally has a set of clear-cut rules to manage migration that applies to all EU member states – at least, on paper. The new law ’introduces a border procedure which shortens the period to assess an asylum request for certain categories of applicants to 12 weeks, with 12 additional weeks to carry out returns for those who are not granted the protection’. It does not change the basic principle that any third national should ask for asylum only to the EU country of first arrival, but ’envisages a system of mandatory solidarity that offers countries three different options to manage migration flows: host a number of asylum seekers in its territory, pay a financial contribution to frontline member states, or help finance personnel, equipment, surveillance systems at the border and other operational costs’. The so-called ’mandatory solidarity’ is not actually mandatory – instead, EU countries have used a variety of tactics to reduce their commitments to helping frontline states and take in as few migrants as possible. Around 800,000 people are already in the asylum system. Some 669,000 individuals asked for asylum in the EU last year. The EU's member states will relocate fewer than 9,000 asylum seekers this year – even after the annual minimum was set at 30,000. Less affected ’member states’ will make €76 million of financial contributions to support EU countries under migratory pressure. Each year ’the Commission should propose a solidarity pool that defines the help member states need to offer each other' for the following year, according to the EU's Asylum and Migration Management Regulation, which makes up the bulk of the pact. The pool has a quota of relocations of asylum seekers from countries considered under migratory pressure, and ’financial contributions from other member states’, including via the financing of alternative solidarity measures such as construction and hardware procurement. The solidarity pool has ’a minimum contribution threshold of 30,000 relocations and €600 million in financial contributions’. The pool assigns a share to each member state based on population and GDP. ’Each government’ can then decide in what form to contribute. 'The European Commission's mantra' has been that solidarity is ’mandatory but flexible’, repeated many times by EU Internal Affairs and Migration Commissioner Brunner. For 2026, Spain, Italy, Greece and Cyprus were considered under migratory pressure. ’Czechia, Croatia, Austria and Poland were granted a total exemption from their quotas, for being classified as facing a significant migratory situation.’ The remaining 19 countries have to contribute by paying or relocating migrants. 'The Commission set' the minimum number of relocations and size of financial contributions as low as possible to accommodate member states’ low ambitions. National governments have found ways to further reduce the number during the process that set the contributions for 2026. Member states argued that the new migration rules will only cover the second half of 2026 rather than a full year and agreed to reduce the size of the ’solidarity pool’. In a meeting held in Brussels on 8 December 2025, EU Interior Ministers agreed to ’21,000 relocations or other solidarity efforts,’ and €420 million in financial contributions, specifying the contributions expected from each member state. The legal text of the agreement specifies that the solidarity pool shall be at least 30,000 relocations and €600 million, but that it should be set on the basis of the needs ’identified by the Commission.’ During the negotiations that established the pool, Hungary and Slovakia decided not to make any contributions, neither in relocations nor in money that so far has met with no sanction ’from the Commission’. ’An EU official told that the new Hungarian Prime Minister is more keen to cooperate’ than his predecessor Viktor Orbán. But P.M. has also clearly stated his country will not take any asylum seekers from the others, and it does not provide any financial contribution to the pool by the end of 2026. According to people familiar with the matter, the system can still function without Hungary's and Slovakia's contributions. Of the 19 EU countries obliged to contribute, only seven have chosen to accept relocations, and nine are making financial contributions only. The real number of people transferred from one country to another and the amounts of money contributed will be even smaller than the figures on paper. The Spanish government, for example, has pledged €42 million to the pool, but will in fact pay nothing as Spain is classified as under migratory pressure and will thus be a net beneficiary of this year's cycle. Considering only the real pledges made by countries effectively obliged to offer solidarity – that is, those deemed not under pressure – the total numbers stand at 8,878 relocations and €76.3 million. The upshot of this is that solidarity payouts to Spain, Italy, Greece, and Cyprus for the first cycle have been significantly reduced. This is why Spain and Cyprus abstained in last December's vote to set up the solidarity pool, which was approved by a large majority of EU countries. Madrid considers the help from the other countries very insufficient and fears that this year's cycle could set a precedent. Numbers are deliberately at the lower end and have come down in the process, Gehrke, director of the Brussels office of the International Organization for Migration told. Brunner, for one, believes the level of solidarity could be sufficient for the current situation but ’of course we don't know how the situation will evolve,’ he told yesterday. Member states also have another legal tool at their disposal to avoid taking part in real relocations of asylum seekers from other EU countries - the so-called responsibility offset, another form of granting solidarity support considered equivalent to physical transfers. Under this system, ’an EU country can take care of a specific number of secondary movement asylum seekers’ – individuals who are currently in its territory, but who should have asked for asylum in their first EU country of arrival. This quota would then be deducted from the relocations the given member state has to accept, reducing the actual transfers under the pool's requirements. ’Germany in particular is expected to invoke the offset’, having struck bilateral agreements with Greece and Italy. The same pattern is being followed by multiple other countries, among them France, as it is easier to put into practice and more convenient for domestic public opinion than accepting new arrivals. As a result, 'fewer than 1,000 asylum seekers will be physically transferred in 2026 from one country to another'. (Source: Euronews - based in Lyon, France)

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30/05/2026 - 12:36 GMT+2  Football fans clashed in central Budapest overnight ahead of Saturday's Champions League final between last year's winners Paris Saint-Germain and newly crowned English champions Arsenal, at around 00:20 on Király Street in the city’s 7th district, local police said. For the final, which kicks off at 18:00 on Saturday, each side was allocated 17,000 tickets, but according to information from the Hungarian police, tens of thousands of extra fans are expected to arrive in Budapest without tickets. Video footage posted to social media appeared to show PSG and Arsenal fans throwing punches as flares go off down the street. (Source: Euronews – based in Lyon, France)
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May 29, 2026 6:00 PM CET  P.M. ’trumpeted his meeting’ with der Leyen in Brussels as a breakthrough. ’Based on today’s meeting, €16.4 billion euros have been unlocked', the prime minister told reporters after Friday’s meeting, calling the outcome better than he had expected. But Hungary is still a long way from receiving the billions of euros in EU funds that Budapest wants. Yet Commission officials offered a more cautious description, describing Friday’s deal as a political agreement on a broad direction rather than a decision to release the cash. ’We haven’t agreed to disburse the funds,’ a senior Commission official said. ’We’ve agreed on a list of commitments which, if completed by Aug. 31, will trigger the payment of those funds.’ ’There is a political understanding on the landing zone. However, the agreement still needs to be translated into a formal revision of Hungary’s plans to qualify for EU post-pandemic recovery funds, setting out in detail the reforms, investments and implementation timelines required for any future payment’, the official stressed. In recent days, negotiators have worked through specific reforms and investments and, crucially, assessed whether they could realistically be completed before the EU’s Aug. 31 deadline to formally apply for the money, a second Commission official said. There is already ’considerable detail’ behind the deal, they added. Commission President der Leyen said ’a great deal of work has already been achieved in a very short time,’ adding ’this gives confidence for the next steps to come.’ The agreement also does not restore all of the funding Hungary has lost during years of disputes with Brussels. According to senior Commission officials, around €2 billion in cohesion funding has already been permanently lost after spending deadlines expired. That funding cannot be recovered, one of the officials quoted above said, stressing that Friday’s agreement ’has no impact on those funds. In addition, more than €530 million remains frozen over migration, asylum and LGBTQ-related concerns, meaning that even if Hungary ultimately secures the full €16.4 billion package, some EU funding remains out of reach’. Hungary is expected to formally submit its revised recovery plan - the next substantial step toward actually getting the cash - next week, according to the first senior Commission official. The proposal would then need to be approved by the Commission and endorsed by EU countries, with Brussels aiming for adoption in July. If all conditions are met, the agreement could unlock up to €10 billion under the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), alongside additional cohesion and academic-freedom-related funding, bringing the total potentially available amount to €16.4 billion. The €16.4 billion package consists of €10 billion under the RRF — €6.5 billion in grants and €3.5 billion in loans — as well as €2.2 billion linked to academic freedom requirements and €4.2 billion in cohesion funding, cash meant to boost the economies of poorer regions. (Source: Politico – U.S.)

29 May 2026  P.M.'s Tisza party won against Orbán in the April 12 parliamentary elections, ending Orbán’s 16-year rule. ’I am very happy to announce today that we can unlock €10 billion (about $11 billion) for Hungary, der Leyen said, adding that a further €4.2 billion in cohesion funds linked to conditionality milestones would also be released. Hungary has undertaken ’long-overdue reforms’ aimed at strengthening anti-corruption safeguards, improving public procurement rules, and reinforcing the rule of law framework, she said at a press conference following a meeting in Brussels with the Prime Minister. The changes include Hungary's ’decision to join the European Public Prosecutor's Office, strengthening the national Integrity Authority, revising procurement legislation, and phasing out public interest trust structures seen as high-risk for state capture,’ she said. According to der Leyen, these steps, combined with ’agreed investment plans under the EU's recovery framework’, allow the gradual release of funds. Hungary and ’the European Commission also agreed on a revised investment package under NextGenerationEU, targeting sectors including energy, housing, transport, and small and medium-sized enterprises. P.M. said the agreement was reached within weeks of the new government taking office. And previous delays in funding ’were linked to corruption concerns rather than political disagreements over issues such as migration or Ukraine policy’. He said Hungary has accepted anti-corruption measures,’ including expanded powers for integrity institutions and new asset recovery mechanisms’. P.M. said that releasing the funds would help Hungary's ’public finances and pledged that the resources would be used to support economic recovery and public services’. He was stressing that there was no ’link between the unfreezing of the funds and the opening of the first chapter of the Ukraine talks’. The tension between the EU and Hungary began in 2010, when the bloc accused Viktor Orbán's government of promoting conservative policies that go against EU rules. Later, the EU funding was made conditional ’due to rule-of-law concerns’. (Source: Anadolu Agency – Turkey)

May 29, 2026 4:52 pm CET  Hungarian police said they will not prevent anyone from taking part in next month’s Budapest Pride parade, signaling a shift in LGBTQ+ policy in the country since P.M. took office earlier this month. The rally is set to take place on June 27. (Source: Politico – U.S.)

May 23, 2026  Hungary's new government is expected to decide within weeks on signing a gas supply contract with Romania covering annual deliveries of 1bn cubic metres from the Neptun Deep offshore field in the Black Sea, sources reported today. The Hungarian side has completed its contract preparations, with state energy company MVM having received all necessary approvals since March. The process has been complicated by political transitions in both capitals. Romanian legislation grants the state a right of first refusal on strategic deals, and the Romanian caretaker government said it intended to exercise that right but lacked the authority to take a final decision. A seven-day deadline for a response expired on May 15, after which Romania requested an extension to mid-June. Production at Neptun Deep is due to begin in 2027. Romanian gas from the contract would cover 20% to 25% of the volume Hungary will need to replace when the EU's REPowerEU programme bans purchases of Russian energy from October 2027. Hungary's total annual gas consumption stands at around 9bn cubic metres, of which approximately 4.5bn cubic metres currently comes from Russia. The agreed price for Romanian gas was already comparable to Russian levels. Hungarian Prime Minister said the EU would resume purchases of Russian gas after the end of the Ukrainian conflict and that Hungary supported energy diversification but had to consider fuel costs. He said liquefied natural gas routed via the Baltic Sea, Poland and Slovakia carried a significantly higher price than gas from Russia, Romania and Austria. (Source: bne IntelliNews - Germany)

22 May 2026  The government bans the import of agricultural products from Ukraine, the new PM wrote on US social media company X, Friday. Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia imposed trade restrictions on several Ukrainian products in 2023. On Thursday, Agriculture and Food Minister Bona said the government will restore a ban on farm imports from Ukraine that expired after a state of emergency ended. (Source: Anadolu Agency – Turkey)

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30/05/2026 - 17:47  The EU has unlocked €16.4 billion in funds for Hungary after new Prime Minister 'enacted reforms to weed out corruption'. It caps off weeks of negotiations between his government and the EU. (Source: France 24)
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29/05/2026 - 16:26 The European Union will unlock more than €16 billion ($19 billion) in frozen funds for Hungary, European Commission (EC) chief der Leyen said Friday, praising what she described as ’long overdue reforms’ by newly elected Prime Minister. The EC president announced the release of funds frozen after talks with the pro-Europe successor, P.M. in Brussels. She praised ’early progress on reforms’ under the country's new leadership. The EU had frozen the funds while the country was ’under the leadership of nationalist premier Viktor Orbán, accusing Budapest of corruption and democratic backsliding’. While in power, Orbán, a self-described thorn in the EU's side, kept the Constitutional Court, Public Prosecutor's Office and Court of Audit ’on a tight leash’ and appointed allies to run them.’We can already feel a strong wind of change across Hungary,’ der Leyen told a press conference. The new government inherited a swelling ’budget deficit that according to the Commission might reach 6.2 percent of GDP in 2026’ after heavy pre-election spending by Orbán. "In only a few weeks, you have driven forward long overdue reforms," der Leyen told the ’conservative’ leader. P.M., whose party holds a large majority in parliament, has begun initial reforms – with his camp voting Wednesday to drop Orbán's plan to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC). And Hungarian police said Friday they would not ban next month's Pride parade in Budapest – a reversal from last year when the LGBTQ event was barred under Orbán. ’We will bring this money home, as we promised, to rebuild Hungary, to jump start the economy, to restore and develop public services, and to strengthen the competitiveness of Hungarian companies and small and medium-sized enterprises’, P.M. told the news conference. The bulk of the frozen funds – just over €10 billion of the total – are from the EU's Covid recovery fund, and Hungary had until the end of August to present a new plan to secure them. Their release was ’subject to the reforms that are being adopted’ and ’the implementation of a series of investments that have been agreed on’, der Leyen said. Brussels seeks to push ahead with files previously blocked by Budapest, such as membership talks with Ukraine. (Source: France 24 „with AFP’ /= France/ and „Reuters’ /United Kingdom)
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29/05/2026 - 12:25 GMT+2 Hungary’s ’political transformation is being watched closely as a test case for whether democratic institutions weakened during years of populist rule can be rebuilt from within’ - and how quickly ’Brussels is prepared to reward reform with restored funding and political support’. The country's Prime Minister will meet European Commission President der Leyen on Friday. P.M. is seeking to unlock €10 billion in recovery funds, blocked over ’longstanding concerns about judicial independence, corruption and democratic backsliding’ during former leader Viktor Orbán’s years in power, ahead of an August deadline. McGrath, the EU’s Commissioner for Democracy, Justice and the Rule of Law dampened hopes that the frozen Hungarian EU funds could be disbursed any time soon. He did caution that ’restoring full rule-of-law standards’ will take time. Under Orbán and his party, Fidesz, who were in power from 1998 to 2002 and from 2010 to 2026, Hungary ’was repeatedly accused by the European Commission, the European Parliament, and international watchdogs of democratic backsliding and erosion of the rule of law’. ’This included concerns over judicial independence, media and academic freedom, corruption, public procurement and minority and LGBTQ rights’. McGrath said Brussels is ready to support Hungary’s new government in its transition ’to introducing the necessary reforms’. He is travelling to Budapest next week to meet Görög, the country’s justice minister. The transition is already raising constitutional and political tensions inside Hungary. P.M. has publicly called on several senior officeholders appointed during the Orbán era, including the country’s president, to resign, and has threatened constitutional changes if they refuse. ’It is inevitable when you have such a seismic change in the political landscape of a country that there will be personnel changes,’ McGrath, who was asked whether such pressure was legitimate, said,. ’What is important is that due process is always followed and that the rights of every individual citizen, including those serving in public office, are respected.” The new Hungarian government is also considering constitutional amendments that would limit future prime ministers to two terms - a move widely seen as aimed at preventing Orbán from returning to power. When it comes to electoral politics and the conduct of elections, it is a national competence, the commissioner said. The Commission’s broader annual rule-of-law review is expected in July. (Source: Euronews – based in Lyon, France)
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Published on 27/05/2026 - 20:16 GMT+2 Hungarian PM will travel to Brussels for meetings. He will meet European Commission President der Leyen in Brussels on Friday in an effort to secure a largely symbolic deal aimed at resetting Hungary’s relationship with the EU. Budapest seeks to unlock €10 billion in blocked recovery funds. P.M.is also scheduled to meet Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever and NATO Secretary General Rutte on Thursday. Budapest is currently revising its national recovery plan. In a recent interview, P.M. said the updated plan would prioritise railway projects, energy infrastructure and a rental housing programme. He also acknowledged for the first time that Hungary ’may not be able to access the full amount - both sides are engaging constructively, but that time of an August deadline is short and Hungary's fiscal position remains precarious. Hungary must submit a revised national recovery plan. A submission was initially expected this week. It is currently unclear whether Hungary will submit the plan on Friday or delay the submission until early June. Beyond the recovery funds, billions of euros in cohesion funds remain frozen, although unlocking the recovery funds would automatically release most of the cohesion financing. One tranche, however, is conditional on Hungary amending its previous anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and asylum law. Hungary’s request to join the EU’s joint defence borrowing scheme, the Security Action for Europe (SAFE), is also being reassessed in Budapest ’over corruption concerns connected to Orbán’s inner circle’. P.M. has also suggested that Hungary's original €16 billion programme may be excessive in scale. He may additionally seek agreement with der Leyen on resolving the Erasmus+ dispute. ’Restoring the rule of law remains a cross-cutting requirement. Hungary must guarantee the independence of the National Judicial Council and reduce political influence over judicial appointments, among other reforms. ’The opening of an accession negotiating chapter of Ukraine’ is contingent on Hungary lifting its veto. Orbán's government had opposed Kyiv's EU membership bid, framing it as a threat to European security and the economy. P.M.’s government has indicated that ’it is prepared to open the first chapter’, provided Ukraine addresses the language and educational rights of the Hungarian minority in the Transcarpathia region. Technical talks between Budapest and Kyiv on the minority issue are ongoing. EU Enlargement Commissioner Kos has said she expects to greenlight the opening of the first chapter in June. (Source: Euronews – based in Lyon, France)
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(Friday), 22/05/2026 - 12:49 GMT+2  Hungary's approved recovery plan includes measures to make the pension system more sustainable and equitable, alongside efforts to simplify the country’s tax code. More than 20 European Commission experts arrived in Budapest on Monday for talks on how to unfreeze the funds, with the visit scheduled to conclude today. A Commission official said ’the size of the delegation reflects der Leyen's personal commitment’. The Hungarian negotiation team, the official said, is ’more than constructive.’ Discussions have focused on the Recovery Funds, with experts assessing what is realistically achievable before the end of August. Brussels has advised Hungarian negotiators to concentrate on securing the non-repayable grant portion of the funds - worth €6.5 billion - ’and to forgo the loan component, valued at €3.9 billion, arguing that additional borrowing would worsen Hungary's already fragile fiscal position. Hungary's new prime minister, P.M. is expected to travel to Brussels next week to sign a political agreement with der Leyen on the path towards releasing the frozen funds. Sources inside the Commission indicate that ’the political agreement is primarily a symbolic step’ as Hungary needs to fulfill all the criteria to access the recovery funds. They are expected to agree on a timeline for the necessary steps and 'to reaffirm Hungary's commitment to joining the European Public Prosecutor's Office and the eurozone’. One concrete outcome could be a joint statement on resolving Hungary's long-running Erasmus+ dispute. In 2022, 21 Hungarian universities - restructured as public interest asset management foundations, known by their Hungarian acronym KEKVA - were suspended from EU funding ’over corruption concerns linked to their governance boards. The move significantly reduced opportunities for Hungarian students to participate in exchange programmes. A resolution would require Hungary to address governance concerns around the KEKVA foundations, though the Commission has indicated it is not demanding their abolition outright. Budapest has yet to decide how to proceed. Another major sticking point is Hungary’s continued non-compliance with a prior ruling by the European Court of Justice on the treatment of asylum seekers, which has resulted in a €1 million-per-day fine. Hungary is currently subject to this penalty, and P.M. has signaled that he is seeking a way to resolve the issue. ’Reforms on pensions and taxation’ have emerged as the main sticking points between Budapest and Brussels in technical negotiations to unlock a total of €17 billion of euros for Hungary in EU funds frozen under the previous administration. According to several European Commission officials, P.M. is resisting both reforms, ’arguing they would put additional pressure on the country's budget. Last weekend, P.M. wrote to Commission President der Leyen setting out his red lines ahead of the negotiations. The contents of the letter have not been disclosed. P.M.'s team told Brussels that Hungary ’remains committed to pension reform in principle, but that the country's weak fiscal position and the limited time available make implementation before the deadline practically impossible. Pension reform was a central pledge of P.M.’s electoral campaign, with his Tisza party having promised to raise minimum and below-average pensions. On taxation, P.M. has publicly ruled out removing windfall taxes imposed on the energy and financial sectors. The European Commission's expectation is that the government should gradually phase out some of the special taxes, P.M. said last week. ’In the current budgetary situation, the Hungarian government certainly cannot undertake this, he said. Hungary could lose €10.4 billion in recovery funding if it fails to meet the August 31 deadline required to access the money. Commission officials say they could simplify some milestones. They have ruled out any extension of the deadline. Officials within Magyar’s government ’admit that there may not be enough time to carry out sweeping sectoral reforms before the end-of-August deadline for unlocking post-COVID Recovery and Resilience Facility funds. ’Unlocking the recovery funds requires Hungary to meet a set of criteria, including 27 so-called super milestones and more than 368 individual milestones.’ (Source: Euronews – based in Lyon, France)
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27/05/2026 - 21:49 GMT+2  Set up in 2002 and backed by 125 member states, the Hague-based tribunal prosecutes individuals responsible for the world's gravest crimes when countries are unwilling or unable to do so themselves. Since it was founded, the ICC has opened more than 30 cases for alleged war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide and offences against the administration of justice. But it has been struggling against a lack of recognition and enforcement power. China, Israel, Russia and the United States are among nations that do not recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC, hampering its ability to investigate their nationals. Hungarian lawmakers vote to reverse exit from ICC initiated by Orbán last year. The 199-member parliament voted 133 for, 37 against with five abstentions to formally repeal the law on exiting the ICC, just ahead of the deadline. It is now up to President Sulyok to sign the bill into law. Among those opposed to reversing the withdrawal, former minister for EU affairs Bóka of Orbán's Fidesz party argued while there is no question that genocide, wars and crimes against humanity are unacceptable, he questions whether the court is fit to ensure accountability. The new PM has indicated that Hungary would execute ICC warrants against anyone, even Netanyahu, despite inviting him to Budapest for later this year. (Source: Euronews – based in Lyon; „additional sources: AFP” = France)
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25 May 2026  The Presidency welcomes the announcement of the Government of Hungary to discontinue the withdrawal of Hungary from the Rome Statute and to remain as a State Party, says International Criminal Court. (Source: Anadolu Agency - Turkey)

22 May 2026  In November 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza. In April 2025, then-Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced Hungary's decision to leave the ICC calling it political over the arrest warrant issued against Netanyahu. Following his election victory last month, the new PM said his government would halt Budapest's exit from ICC. The government withdraws Hungary’s intention to leave the ICC, he wrote on US social media company X, Friday. (Source: Anadolu Agency – Turkey)

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(Sunday), 19/04/2026 ’Positive bilateral talks’ were held in Budapest between leader to be and European Commission. Summing up two days of talks with a delegation from the European Commission, Hungary’s incoming P.M. presented the first steps he plans to take to regain access to European Union funding „that belongs to the Hungarian people,” frozen due to corruption and ’rule of law concerns’ related to his predecessor’s policies. He said ’his Tisza party plans’ measures to fight corruption, sign up to the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, and ’restore’ the freedom and independence of the judiciary, higher education and the media. Full election ’results published’ yesterday showed the Tisza party will have an unprecedented majority in parliament, giving it broad powers to change the constitution and dismantle the system built up by outgoing premier Viktor Orbán over the past 16 years. The European Commission said the meetings held in Budapest on Friday and Saturday presented ’an early opportunity for practical discussions on how to move forward and make real progress to unlock EU funds earmarked for Hungary.” The prospect of billions of euros in fresh EU funding, along with P.M.’s plans ’to take steps to introduce the euro’, have already driven Hungary’s stocks, bonds and currency to multi-year highs. (Source: Luxembourg Times)

19/04/2026  The defeat of Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is a warning to conservative European leaders who may be tempted to align closely with Trump and Putin, according to Ribera, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Clean, Just, and Competitive Transition and EU antitrust chief, the European Commission’s most senior Social Democrat official. In Barcelona she, a Spanish socialist herself, is attending the Global Progressive Mobilisation, a gathering of about 100 left-wing parties hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. P.M.’s victory in Hungary was only possible due to the ’mass mobilisation of the left’ and ’the country’s democratic forces’, Ribera said. Hungary’s new government must make a big effort to ’undo’ the reforms introduced by Orbán ’that run counter to judicial independence, freedom of expression and minority protections’ - ’only then’ can €18 billion in EU funds now frozen by Brussels be unlocked, she said. She expects P.M. to lift, upon taking office, the veto on €90 billion in EU funding aimed at helping Ukraine counter Russia’s invasion, she also said. Leftist political parties, which at the start of the century led governments in Europe’s main countries, now hold some of their lowest levels of representation in history. Of the 27 leaders attending European Union summits, only three - Spain, Denmark and Malta - belong to the Social Democratic family, although Socialists also make up part of some coalition governments, such as in Germany and Austria. Unexpected allies are ’also’ emerging, including Pope Leo XIV, she added. Ribera regularly contends with ’conservative’ dominance within the institution, led by Germany’s der Leyen. They’ve clashed over climate policy, to which Ribera has devoted much of her career, including as a minister in Spain. Their disagreements have also included the EU’s stance on Gaza, and relations with the US. Europe faces the challenge of learning at high speed to build its autonomy from the US following a decoupling marked by unexpected virulence, Ribera said. Trump’s decisions are pushing Europe to become ’much more explicit about things that are not acceptable.’ (Source: Luxembourg Times)

April 18 2026 10:11:47  ’Far-right’ leaders from Europe gather in Milan today for a rally against irregular immigration and Brussels bureaucracy, the first since the electoral defeat of nationalist Viktor Orbán in Hungary. The Patriots for Europe party, the third-largest bloc in the European Parliament, has called on its supporters to meet at 1300 GMT in front of Milan's Duomo cathedral. Organiser Salvini, leader of Italy's nationalist League party, has deemed that symbol of Christianity ideal for the event billed as "Without Fear — in Europe Masters in our Own Home!" France's Bardella and the Netherlands' Wilders have confirmed their attendance following invitations by Salvini, who is deputy prime minister in the coalition government of Giorgia Meloni. Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis has also been invited. Spain, where the Vox party has made strong gains, has not yet announced a participant. Nor has Hungary, where one of the co-founders of the Patriots, Orbán, was voted from power after 16 years in a crushing election defeat to pro-EU opposition figure P.M. Ahead of that election, the president of France's National Rally, Le Pen, went to Budapest to try and shore up Orbán, stressing that 2027 was shaping up to be absolutely fundamental for the ’far right’. Major contests in France, Italy, Spain and Poland would give potential far-right winners the means to radically change the course of the European Union from within, she said. Peace, work and security will be the watchwords of the Milan rally, Salvini explained ahead of the rally. Participants on stage are expected to talk up measures such as ending legal aid to migrants or imposing strict limits on family reunification policies. In line with Meloni, the League has also called for the EU to soften budget deficit rules due to the energy crisis triggered by the Middle East war. ’These rules are unbearable with the wars currently under way ... Some people in Brussels live on Planet Mars, and we're going to bring them back down to Earth on Saturday, with good manners, of course,” Salvini said. Farmers in tractors protesting free trade agreements, and motorcyclists opposed to traffic restrictions are to lead the way today for a short march from eastern Milan to the Duomo. The far-right rally is also a show of force for the League in its stronghold of Lombardy and in Italy as a whole, at a time when it can count only on around six to eight percent of voting intentions, according to the latest polls. The League's popularity has been on a downward trajectory, scoring 17.35 percent in the 2018 elections and 8.8 percent in the last ones in 2022. Salvini's party is under pressure from the new National Future party founded by retired general Vannacci, who defected from the League in February and already has about three percent of voting intentions. Several counter events, including anti-fascist rallies, are planned for today in Milan, a centre-left metropolis in a strongly right-wing region. Despite being the League's coalition partner in Meloni's government, Forza Italia is also planning an event for its Milan chapter, dedicated to the social and civic engagement of children of immigrants in Italy. Also today, progressives including Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, Mexican President Sheinbaum and Brazilian President Lula da Silva are set to gather in Barcelona. (Source: Hurryiet Daily News - Turkey)

17-04-2026 17:16  The many problems that the European Union may have had with Hungary’s membership under the right-wing populist Viktor Orbán have not gone away – even following his astonishing defeat in the recent election in Hungary. It exposes uncertainties over the future of European expansion plans, even as the UK pushes for closer EU alignment. The European Commission president der Leyen’s vision of a 30-plus European Union, which includes Ukraine and former Soviet satellite countries, is disappearing in the rear-view mirror. According to Politico, there is a very real fear among many EU diplomats of another pro-Putin ‘Trojan horse’ – wielding vetoes, raising objections and disruptions. Diplomats are not happy. One concern with expanding the EU is that it will involve countries becoming involved in negotiations which could provide a vehicle for pro-Putin (and pro-Trump) meddling and interference. The immediate concern is the fast-tracking of Ukraine into the EU. Even though P.M. ended 16 years of Orbán rule, during the election campaign, he had said he didn’t want any ‘fast tracks’ for Ukraine membership. EU enlargement was set to be an agenda item at the EU Summit to be held in Cyprus in late April but it is now unlikely to be discussed. Enlargement must remain demanding and merit-based to ensure its success and credibility, said France’s minister delegate for European affairs, Haddad. Orbán was a politician ’willing to do Putin and Trump’s bidding with a veto, ready to undermine policies’ while ’taking the benefits of EU membership’. There is also a ’fear in western European countries of an influx of cheaper labour from candidate countries’. The same semi-populist, semi-xenophobic arguments we heard about the Poles [dubbed ‘the Polish plumber debate’ in 2004] – we are likely to hear with the Ukrainians and any other candidate. The concern is highest in France which, by law, would have to hold a referendum on admitting a new member state. The political left in France argues that a vote on Ukraine joining the EU could feed into the campaigning of populist right wing Rassemblement National (National Rally) party leader Bardella. There are also fears in Germany, the Netherlands and Italy which now argue that the EU’s strenuous ‘merit-based’ tests must be respected – with no exceptions for geopolitical reasons. Insiders say the EU now has to be ‘Hungary-proofed’ by denying veto powers to new members for several years following admission. This is bad news not just for Ukraine, but also for Montenegro which is said to have completed the laborious steps needed to become a new member. Yet the mandate to start drafting the accession treaty is being pushed back. ’Despite pressure by Sweden and Denmark, among others, to get Ukraine fast-tracked’, the EU will need agreement from the big western EU countries. Currently the EU recognises Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, and Ukraine as being candidate countries. Kosovo is formally considered a potential candidate. Turkey has frozen status, although Turkey’s application for candidate status was originally made in 1999. (Source: Yorkshire Bylines – United Kingdom)

16/04/2026 - 17:15 GMT+2  'First talks': European Commission officials are due to meet the team of Hungary’s prime minister-designate, P.M., in Budapest tomorrow, just five days after his election victory, to begin the process of unfreezing €17 billion in EU funds, with Ukraine-related disputes also on the agenda. P.M. has already spoken twice with European Commission President der Leyen, who pledged 'her support'. It remains unclear whether an agreement on EU funds and Ukraine-related issues will be bundled together (unblocking EU funds and the opening of negotiating chapters in Ukraine's EU accession process). For P.M.’s incoming government, moving quickly to endorse Ukraine-related commitments upon taking office carries political risks. During the campaign, Orbán repeatedly cast Tisza as a puppet of Ukraine and Brussels. Days after the Hungarian election, Zelenskyy announced plans to restore the Druzhba oil pipeline by the end of April. The EU delegation will include experts from the budget and the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) — the EU’s post-Covid recovery fund. They are expected to provide technical assistance to P.M.’s team 'to help amend legislation in Hungary'. (Source: Euronews – based in Lyon, France)
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Thursday 16 April 2026 17:55 BST  Hungary’s new PM tells state broadcaster ‘we are shutting down your lying service’ in first interview. P.M. slammed the channels as bring part of outgoing prime minister Viktor Orbán’s ’propaganda machine.’ (Source: The Independent - United Kingdom)

April 16, 2026 6:00am EDT  Hungary’s new leader grew up admiring Viktor Orbán. He comes from the same political world. He studied law, married Varga in 2006. His marriage made him part of Orbán’s inner circle and he worked in government: When his then-wife took a position in Brussels, he joined Hungary’s diplomatic corps. After returning to Hungary, he held positions at a state-owned bank and later ran Hungary’s student loan agency. They divorced in 2023. Accusing the government of corruption and propaganda in 2024, he publicly broke with Fidesz. He, who once idolized Orbán — now he’s the man who brought him down. P.M., a former Fidesz insider, swept Hungary's 2026 election, ending Viktor Orbán's 16-year rule and pledging to rebuild ties with the EU. /Source: Fox News – U.S. ; 'Reuters (– United Kingdom) - contributed' to the report/
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April 16, 2026 6:00 AM  Hungary's new PM takes aim at EU with tough border policy. (Source: Miami Herald / Newsweek = U.S)

(Thursday), 16 April 2026  Populism without sovereignty is mere words. P.M offers Hungary's sovereignty to Brussels. That the European elite were desperate to see the back of Orbán it was their publicly announced policy. The European elite’s eagerness to welcome Hungary back into the fold was well predicted by every analyst. At 9.29 pm on Sunday, just moments after Viktor Orbán took to the stage to concede the Hungarian election, European Commission President der Leyen announced on X that ’Europe’s heart is beating stronger in Hungary tonight.’ Before 10 pm, Macron announced he had already spoken with the winner, P.M. victory of whom was far from ’a rejection of national conservatism and a rebuff of the global far-right movement’. P.M. had not transformed conservative Hungary overnight into the political milieu of a progressive city like Amsterdam. P.M.promised no social revolution. P.M., the former Fidesz insider, had campaigned on a kind of Orbánism without Orbán, promising to preserve the key plank’s of Orbán’s political legacy, including a rejection of Ukraine’s EU accession. P.M. had even criticised Orbán for allowing too many migrants into Hungary. Tusk similarly made criticisms of Law and Justice for an overly-permissive approach to migration. Orbán’s greatest legacy was the establishment of ideological hegemony over the fundamental questions of migration, identity and energy security. Although Orbán never described himself as such, even that much-maligned descriptor of Orbán – populist – is not about to be retired. P.M. was quick to assume its mantel. But then why were der Leyen and Macron – indeed, the entire globalist class from Obama and Soros – so eager to celebrate P.M.’s victory as a historic moment? In his speech the day after the election, he claimed to be a populist, though of the good kind. Populism is nothing without sovereignty. Right-wing opinions on migration are meaningless without the national independence to see them through. For all of P.M.’s appealing noises about conservative priorities, his overriding political significance is his desire for reconciliation with Brussels. This has been the subject of the first announcements since his victory. P.M will work tirelessly to see the billions of Euros suspended by the EU sent swiftly to Hungary. The price of this sorely needed cash is submission to Brussels, to the ’27 conditions’ that the EU has been trying to impose on Hungary in exchange for the blocked funds. Tusk, without lifting a finger to reform Poland’s ’corrupt’ institutions, was immediately rewarded for his victory by Brussels with cash. He even managed to secure a so-called opt-out from the EU’s Migration Pact – just as P.M. promises. The opt-out was however not as it seemed – merely a temporary derogation from refugee quotas justified by Poland’s support for millions of Ukrainian war-refugees. More importantly, it was not an assertion of national sovereignty, but a blessing bestowed by Brussels. Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. P.M.’s agenda: The granting of sovereign power to the European Public Prosecutor, the promise to abide by ’fundamental values’ (read: EU rulings and policies on LGBT), and the lifting of the veto on EU sanctions and energy policy. Der Leyen even smells a bigger prize: The abolition of the unanimity requirement in the European Council. She moved fast, waited less than a day after Orbán’s defeat to call for the EU to get more power over national governments to force through foreign policy decisions. Brussels may be prepared to strategically relax its most maximal demands, but only if it senses that it is working with someone who is ’one of us’. The quid pro quo eventually comes due, as is clear in the case of SAFE in Poland – Tusk is desperately attempting to ram through a funding agreement which would seriously curtail Poland’s ability to choose its own defence partners and leave it dangerously reliant on Germany. The fundamental question is about the substance of populism, not its outward manifestations. Without the fundamentals of sovereignty, there is no national policymaking; subject to international institutions, politics becomes reduced to merely having opinions. Through repeated experience of the reality of EU policymaking, Orbán was drawn to the truth of this lesson. His increasingly combative relationship with the EU elite was the product of an understanding of the reality of power and just how precarious a democracy can be in the midst of the European Union’s relentless desire to draw all sovereignty to itself. Real populism is inseparable from the commitment to maintain national independence – to which the EU is by far the biggest threat in Europe. There might be good reasons to be mistrustful of the patchy record of contemporary populists. In replacing a commitment to national sovereignty with a few choice words about border security, it is these faux-populists who are, by definition, the ones really shilling slop. (Source: Brussels Signal - Belgium)
by Reynolds, the head of policy for MCC Brussels

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