{"id":8650,"date":"2026-07-30T14:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/2026\/07\/30\/column-an-obstacle-falls-with-viktor-orbans-defeat-in-hungary\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T14:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T12:42:14","slug":"column-an-obstacle-falls-with-viktor-orbans-defeat-in-hungary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/2026\/07\/30\/column-an-obstacle-falls-with-viktor-orbans-defeat-in-hungary\/","title":{"rendered":"COLUMN | An obstacle falls with Viktor Orb\u00e1n&#8217;s defeat in Hungary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:39px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this edition of <em>Ukraine: A Week in the War<\/em>, Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Ogarkova reflects on this significant development for Ukraine as well: the defeat of Viktor Orb\u00e1n in the Hungarian legislative elections, a populist leader with a pronounced pro-Russian stance who had been an obstacle to several European initiatives supporting Ukraine, notably by blocking the 90 billion euro European aid package that Kyiv urgently needs.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Guest:<\/strong> Tetyana Ogarkova, Head of the International Department at the Ukraine Crisis Media Center <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Presented by: Ulrich Huygevelde<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260415-UKRAINE-UNE-SEMAINE-DANS-LA-GUERRE_web.wav\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this edition of Ukraine: A Week in the War, Ukrainian journalist Tetyana Ogarkova reflects on this significant development for Ukraine as well: the defeat of Viktor Orb\u00e1n in the Hungarian legislative elections, a populist leader with a pronounced pro-Russian stance who had been an obstacle to several European initiatives supporting Ukraine, notably by blocking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[64,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-podcast","entry"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8651,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8650\/revisions\/8651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geopolis.brussels\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}