{"id":303076,"date":"2025-09-15T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T11:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=303076"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:33:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:33:40","slug":"hungary-joining-brics-breaking-away-from-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/09\/hungary-joining-brics-breaking-away-from-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungary Joining BRICS, Breaking Away from the EU?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>23 Aug 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Hungary\u2019s Eastward Shift: Is Orb\u00e1n Redefining Europe\u2019s Future? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Once a rising star in the European Union, Hungary is now challenging the very foundations of the Western alliance. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n, Hungary is pivoting away from Brussels\u2014and toward Moscow and Beijing. What\u2019s driving this bold realignment? And what could it mean for the future of the EU, NATO, and global power dynamics?<\/p>\n<p><strong>In this in-depth geopolitical analysis, we explore: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Hungary\u2019s growing ties with Russia and China <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The impact of Chinese investment and Belt and Road participation<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Orb\u00e1n\u2019s defiance of EU norms and sanctions <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Why Hungary blocked Sweden\u2019s NATO accession <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The ideological clash between national sovereignty and liberal democracy <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Hungary\u2019s potential alignment with BRICS <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>What this shift means for European unity and global order <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the EU faces unprecedented internal divisions, Hungary\u2019s actions are sending shockwaves across Berlin, Paris, Brussels\u2014and Washington. Is Hungary the canary in the coal mine for a rising wave of Euroskeptic nationalism? Or is it forging a new path in a multipolar world?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hungary Breaks Ranks: Joins China and BRICS, Moves Away from the EU\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-jlq60dAvBc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Aug 2025 &#8211; Hungary\u2019s Eastward Shift: Orb\u00e1n Redefines Europe\u2019s Future<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[239,244,433,1268,1562,91,278,1043,70],"class_list":["post-303076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-hungary","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-sco","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303079,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303076\/revisions\/303079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}