Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar publicly showed a 2022 government document on August 6 that he says proves Viktor Orbán's administration knew Hungary's electricity grid was on the brink of collapse and chose not to act for four years; the disclosure follows a summer power crisis; Magyar's government has also approved a new energy development plan covering storage, grid upgrades and renewables

The European Commission said on August 3 it stood ready to convene emergency electricity coordination talks after Hungary's Paks Nuclear Power Plant stopped generating, removing nearly half of Hungary's total electricity capacity; in a separate development, Hungarian independent media published a recording in which a former Fidesz minister admitted the Orbán government had been warned of severe water shortages and took no preparatory action

Hungary's National Assembly voted on July 28 to establish the Nemzeti Vagyonvisszaszerzési és Vagyonvédelmi Hivatal, a National Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office with broad powers to claw back public assets, the Hungarian independent outlet Telex reported; the vote is a central Tisza Party campaign promise; in a separate vote parliament elected Pál Sonnevend as a Constitutional Court judge with 138 votes for and 6 against, with Fidesz boycotting both votes

Chief Prosecutor Gábor Bálint Nagy submitted his resignation on July 23 warning that 'politics is swallowing justice,' as Prime Minister Péter Magyar's government simultaneously ordered a full audit of Hungary's State Audit Office, filed criminal complaints over Orbán-era Eximbank loans, and capped state company executive pay at the PM's own salary level

Hungary's National Assembly approved a constitutional amendment on July 13 to remove President Tamás Sulyok from office; Prime Minister Péter Magyar's coalition used its two-thirds supermajority to pass the 17th amendment to Hungary's Basic Law; Sulyok now has five days to sign his own dismissal or face impeachment proceedings

Hungary's 31st Budapest Pride drew relaxed, celebratory crowds after police authorized the event and the new Magyar government declined to enforce Orbán's constitutional ban

How formerly fringe ethnonationalist and anti-immigration parties entered government across multiple established democracies between 2010 and 2026, reshaping global politics.

Tracks three heads of government who have left power, covering the legal proceedings, political successors, and policy reversals that make their departures still consequential.

Brussels unfroze nearly all aid suspended under Viktor Orbán on 29 May 2026 after Péter Magyar's Tisza government fulfilled anti-corruption commitments, joined the European Public Prosecutor's Office, and dropped Hungary's veto on an EU loan to Ukraine

An 11 April landslide hands the EU a new Budapest, unblocking Ukraine aid while refusing to fast-track Kyiv's accession