Commentary
Security
The Illusion of Peace Negotiations: Why Russia’s War of Aggression Has No Clear End
10 September 2024
30 November 2018
It has been a Hungarian foreign and security policy goal to establish and maintain good relations with the Western Balkans since the beginning of the 1990s.
Hungary has been a strong advocate for the accession of Croatia to the EU and Montenegro to NATO and building up friendships across the region with this support. But helping Nikola Gruevski, the ex-prime minister of Macedonia and a convicted criminal, brings into question these foreign policy goals and Hungary’s political motivation.
It is well known that Gruevski is an important political ally of Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, but the close relationship alone is not enough to explain the story of why Hungarian diplomats smuggled Gruevski from Macedonia.
The plot thickens