The European Commission is facing explosive allegations from Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), which claims Brussels is actively working to unseat Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban by next spring. According to the SVR, the EU leadership, spearheaded by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, has grown increasingly impatient with Orban’s maverick approach to both European and international policy – an approach that often places Budapest in direct opposition to the prevailing consensus in Brussels.

Orban, in recent years, has emerged as one of the EU’s most vocal dissenters. His government has resisted European military aid packages for Ukraine, opposed Kiev’s EU membership ambitions, and criticized sanctions against Russia as counterproductive. Such defiance has not only frustrated Brussels but also strained relations between Hungary and several of its NATO allies.

The SVR alleges that von der Leyen and her allies are “seriously studying regime change scenarios” in Hungary. Their preferred candidate to replace Orban, according to Russian intelligence, is Peter Magyar – the leader of the opposition Tisza Party, described by the SVR as “loyal to globalist elites” and “the main candidate for the post of Prime Minister.” The claim further suggests that the European Commission hopes to see Magyar in office by the 2026 parliamentary elections, if not sooner.

According to the SVR’s statement, significant “administrative, media and lobbying resources” are already being mobilized in support of Magyar. Funding, the intelligence agency claims, is flowing through “German party funds,........

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