Hungary has granted asylum to a former justice minister of Poland, worsening a rift between Warsaw, where nationalists lost power in 2023, and Budapest, where anti-liberal Prime Minister Viktor Orban remains in charge.
Poland has sought to prosecute former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, architect of changes to the judicial system that the EU had long said undermined the rule of law when the nationalist Law and Justice party (PiS) led Poland.