The Hungarian government withdraws its request to withdraw from the International Criminal Court Announce Peter Magyar, the country’s Prime Minister.
He also said that Hungary bans the import of agricultural products from Ukraine.
Agricultural products from Ukraine were introduced by the government of Viktor Orbán as part of a package of emergency measures in April 2023. It expired on May 14, 2026 due to a procedural error associated with the change of the country’s government, He explains Euroactive. Hungarian Agriculture Minister Szabolcs Bona said on May 21 that authorities would not allow Ukrainian imports to “threaten the existence” of local farmers.
In April 2025, the Hungarian authorities announced that they had begun the process of withdrawing from the jurisdiction of the ICC. The Council of State (Parliament) of Hungary approved this decision. The Hungarian authorities announced their plans to withdraw from the court on the day Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the country. Despite the international arrest warrant, Netanyahu was not arrested.
Hungary signed the Rome Statute, the international treaty establishing the International Criminal Court, in 1999 and ratified it two years later.