Viktor Orban , the longest-serving national leader in the European Union, was seeking to extend his authoritarian premiership deep into its second decade. Now, Orban's political future rests on the success of his most complicated shapeshift yet -- into a self-declared peacekeeper who won't quit Russia. "Orban's Hungary is very far from Putin's Russia -- but Orban mentioned already that Russia is one of his role models," Krekó said. And in a speech to the European Council last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pointedly told Orban: "You have to decide for yourself who you are with. "With each election, Hungary is becoming more and more illiberal.

Source: CNN April 02, 2022 22:11 UTC