Dr. Alan O'Sullivan

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So Donegha has lived in Central Europe, you know, lived in these far off places, Uzbekistan,

lived in Georgia pre the war there so he's a real credible voice and I was very keen to speak with him and I hope you find the interview useful and interesting

Now, this is my attempt at a bit of humour.

There's just one more thing.

So if anybody remembers of a certain age, the detective Columbo, just when people thought they were out the door and they got away with it, Frank, I think Frank was his name, Columbo, would say, just one more thing.

And one more thing this week is the end of Victor.

So Victor Orban...

has left the room.

In fairness to him, he left without a fight, unlike other more autocratic leaders, you could say.

But anyway, he's gone.

Peter Magar is the new man, and there's a lot of optimism about this guy.

But me and my glass-half-empty hat, we have to look at the other side of it.

This guy was in Orban's party just two years ago.

He's a bleeding-heart liberal.

He definitely is not.

He's a nationalist, and we have to see what he does.

Now, Ursula von der Leyen has said that there's EU funds ready to go there if he plays ball on unlocking that $90 billion for Ukraine, which he's expected to do.

But how is this going to play out with Russia?

Now, we know, and this is two points I would make, the counter-argument, Hungary is very reliant on Russian energy.