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The AfD is polling in second place ahead of Germany’s elections scheduled for 23 February. However, all other parties have ruled out entering into a coalition with it.

The extension of EU sanctions shouldn’t be automatic, the Hungarian government has said, in remarks that threaten to unravel the bloc’s collective reaction to Russia’s war on Ukraine

The Hungarian Prime Minister said during a speech in Budapest that the EU’s leaders are driving it into isolation. He also declared that the new US president and the EU’s right-wing faction will dominate politics in the future.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s close ally and minister Antal Rogán was sanctioned by the US Treasury last week for alleged corruption.

The US president-elect has broken with tradition by inviting world leaders to the 20 January ceremony.

Elon Musk has taken the side of an MEP allied to Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán in a dispute over alleged electoral censorship by Brussels. Euronews looks at the details.