One of the more worrying issues for many in the European Union is the leadership of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban and Putin have become close friends, and his ruling style is similar to that of Putin. Under his rule, Hungary has had a general rollback of European, democratic freedoms, especially freedom of the press. Putin's visit to Budapest on Tuesday is another example of Russia's foreign policy aimed at destabilizing European unity more broadly.

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