BUDAPEST – Hungary’s fiery Prime Minister Viktor Orban has always relished a fight, be it with foreign bankers, international lenders or the European Union over policy toward Russia.
But he now faces the biggest and most bruising battle of his career: trying to manage a migration crisis that has already tarnished Hungary’s image and strained ties with Western Europe, especially its most important economic partner, Germany.
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