Furious Farmers, Football and Fatigue Make Orban Cave on Ukraine

  • EU leaders clinched a deal to send €50 billion to Ukraine
  • The Hungarian leader dropped his veto on the funding

Viktor Orban

Photographer: Omar Havana/AP Photo
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Angry farmers robbed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of a good night’s sleep and, in the process, may have helped unlock the funds Ukraine says it needs to keep its war-torn economy going.

In Brussels on Thursday morning, Orban complained to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and European Council President Charles Michel that he’d had a restless night.