Watch the video: Pole and Hungarian, brothers be?

Published on 26/03/2026 - 9:22 GMT+1

Not truthful agelong ago, Poland and Hungary utilized to beryllium the eventual powerfulness mates of cardinal Europe.

Under Poland's erstwhile Law and Justice oregon PiS government, Warsaw and Budapest were inseparable, shielding each different from the EU's penalties. But Russia's full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful aboriginal 2022 caused a monolithic crack.

Poland became Kyiv's biggest champion, portion Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán refused to sever ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The rift grew truthful heavy that adjacent Polish blimpish person Jarosław Kaczyński told Orbán to get his eyes checked implicit Russian atrocities.

Fast guardant to today, and the concern got adjacent much toxic. Budapest has go a harmless haven for wanted PiS politicians fleeing Donald Tusk's caller government. Former Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro is presently hiding successful Hungary, evading 26 transgression charges of corruption and maltreatment of power.

And the narration derailed wholly this week aft reports that Hungary's overseas curate was allegedly leaking details of EU meetings to Moscow, prompting Tusk to admit that Warsaw has suspected this betrayal for years.

Now, the struggle is tearing Poland itself apart. MAGA-aligned Polish President Karol Nawrocki is defying pro-EU Tusk by travelling to Budapest to basal with Orbán close earlier the 12 April elections.

It is simply a tragic twist of history. These 2 nations shared monarchs successful the precocious Middle Ages, similar Louis the Great and Stephen Bathory.

After centuries of surviving empires, satellite wars and communism together, it seems modern geopolitical alliances and Russian ties are breaking a narration agelong defined by the aged proverb: "Pole and Hungarian, 2 bully friends, unneurotic for the sword and the wine”.

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