Stroking the ego: Hungary’s Orbán gives his nod to Sweden’s NATO bid

Also helping was a deal to sell more Swedish jet fighters to Hungary.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán kept Sweden’s bid to join NATO in the deep freeze for a long, long time.

It took a final climbdown by Swedish PM Ulf Kristersson, plus some jet fighters, to thaw the Hungarian leader.

After the Swedish government initially said it had no intention of coming to Budapest before the NATO vote was done, the Swedish prime minister swallowed his pride and made a pilgrimage to the Hungarian capital on Friday.

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