Countries like Viktor Orbán’s Hungary face losing out on billions of euros under European Commission plans to be unveiled on Wednesday.

The European Union's justice chief says Hungary has made virtually no progress in addressing concerns about democratic backsliding over the last year.

The money currently frozen combines around €8.4 billion in cohesion funds and €9.5 billion in COVID-19 recovery funds. View on euronews

Hungary summoned Ukraine's ambassador on Thursday following claims that an ethnic Hungarian man died weeks after military recruiters allegedly assaulted him in Ukraine. Ukraine authorities said they "categorically" rejected accusations that the man had been forcibly mobilised and denied he had been beaten.

Hungary opposes the European Union's idea to create a €100 billion fund to support Ukraine, calling it "war financing," according to Balázs Orbán, an adviser to the Hungarian Prime Minister. "Europe has run out of money — except when it comes to war.

It’s been nearly a year since Slovakia’s hard-right minister for culture Martina Šimkovičová fired Matej Drlička from his position as director of the Slovak National Theatre, the country’s oldest and most significant theatre.

Hungary's government will support first home buyers with up to $443 million per year in interest rate subsidies under a new programme announced this week as right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban gears up for a closely-fought 2026 election.

Poland’s recent presidential election and Romania’s unexpected voter turnout reflect contrasting political trajectories.

On Hungary's veto of further negotiations with Ukraine, the prospects of joining the European Union, how EU citizens feel about Ukraine's accession, billion-euro aid and reconstruction during wartime – read in the interview with European Commissioner for Enlargement,