EP’s LIBE Committee in Hungary to Assess Rule of Law Situation As the European Parliament has long voiced concern over democratic backsliding in the country, members of the EP's Committee on... 2021.09.30.
Orbán Gov’t Under Fire as EP Debates Pegasus Scandal In the European Parliament on Wednesday, MEPs debated on the Pegasus spyware scandal and asked the Commission and member states... 2021.09.16.
EP Decides Not to Recognize Non-EMA Vaccines for “Vaccine Passport” The European Parliament voted down the modification to the upcoming "vaccine passport" law that would have required the automatic authorization... 2021.04.29.
Opposition Decries “The End of Media Plurality” in EP Debate Hungarian MEPs were divided in their views on the state of media freedom in Hungary in a European Parliamentary debate... 2021.03.11.
Gov’t-Critical Klubrádió to Return On-Air After Uncontested Frequency Bid? Shortly after Klubrádió went off the air, Hungary’s media regulator continued the bid for the frequency. As Klubrádió is the... 2021.02.17.
Hungary’s Last Gov’t-Critical Radio Station Loses Licence after Court Ruling Liberal-leaning Klubrádió will be silenced as of February 14th, after the Budapest-Capital Regional Court has rejected an appeal by the... 2021.02.10.
Opposition Politicians Slam Orbán Gov’t for ‘Deafening Silence’ on Navalny’s Prison Sentence Following the prison sentence of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was sent to prison for more than two and... 2021.02.04.
Uproar Follows EC’s Rejection of Minority Safepack Initiative Despite more than one million signatures collected across Europe, the European Parliament's and the Bundestag's backing of the Minority SafePack... 2021.01.18.
Minority SafePack: Hungary MEPs Urge Stronger EC Support for Protection of Nat’l Minorities The European Commission should take specific steps to support the continent's ethnic minority groups, Hungary's MEPs said in a European... 2020.12.15.
Fidesz: Victory in Brussels Against ‘Imperial Endeavors,’ Opposition: Deal is Orbán’s Failure On Thursday, the European Council accepted the EU's budget for the 2021-2027 financial cycle and its Next Generation EU recovery... 2020.12.11.
EU Commissioner Calls for Continued Article 7 Procedure against Hungary, Poland The European Union's Article 7 procedures currently under way against Hungary and Poland should be upheld until issues around the... 2020.12.01.
State Secy Kovács: Rule of Law Debate Not about European Values but Politics and Ideology Proponents of the idea of tying European Union budget allocations to member states' respect for the rule of law are... 2020.10.22.
Justice Minister Varga Tests Positive for Coronavirus Judit Varga, Hungary’s Minister of Justice, tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday, she announced on social media. According... 2020.10.21.
Fidesz: Leftist MEPs ‘Regularly Plotting against Hungary in Brussels’ Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch on Sunday slammed left-wing opposition MEPs for "making it their mission to organise attacks against Hungary... 2020.10.19.
Fidesz MEP Urges Stronger EC Support for Protection of Ethnic Communities The European Commission must stand up in support of ethnic communities, Fidesz MEP Kinga Gál said after a European Parliamentary... 2020.10.16.
Fidesz MEP Queries Jourova on Ties with Hungarian Opposition Tamás Deutsch, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, has sent a letter to European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova, asking her about... 2020.10.15.
Justice Minister: EC Influenced by Soros’ Open Society Foundations Justice Minister Judit Varga on Tuesday called it "outrageous" that the European Commission was allowing itself to be "directly and... 2020.10.14.
Justice Minister Wants Meetings of EU Affairs Officials to be Made Public Hungary on Tuesday put forward a proposal to make meetings of EU affairs officials open to all European Union citizens,... 2020.10.14.
Justice Minister Calls on Momentum MEP to Leave Politics after Denying Consultations with Commissioner Jourova A leaked video recording of opposition Momentum MEP Anna Donáth shows her "boasting" about having regular informal consultations with European... 2020.10.12.
Justice Minister: EC Rule of Law Report Ignores Detailed Summaries Submitted by Hungary The European Commission has ignored in its recent rule of law report detailed summaries, data and comparative analyses submitted by... 2020.10.10.
CEU to Stay in Vienna Despite Favorable ECJ Ruling On the heels of the European Court of Justice's (ECJ) ruling on Tuesday about the government's “lex CEU," CEU's head commented... 2020.10.07.
