Hungarian Press Roundup: Opposition Refuses Accelerated Vote on Emergency Extension A pro-government columnist accuses the opposition of using Monday’s parliamentary session to smear the Prime Minister, while a critic of... 2020.03.25.
Opposition: Coronavirus Shared Enemy, but No Trust in Orbán Gov’t to Grant Limitless Powers As the opposition does not trust Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government, it will not grant it special powers for an... 2020.03.24.
March 15 – Opposition: 1848 Joint Fight to Dismantle Feudalism, for Democracy Hungary's major opposition parties commemorated March 15 in a joint video message on Sunday. The joint demonstration they planned was... 2020.03.15.
State Secy Rejects Politico Op-ed’s Criticism of Hungary’s Handling of Gyöngyöspata Case In a letter addressed to the editor of Brussels-based news outlet Politico in response to a recent op-ed concerning the... 2020.03.05.
Fidesz’s Novák Rejects Weber ‘Lecturing on Democracy’ Responding to Manfred Weber's reaction to Viktor Orbán's recent remarks on the Fidesz party's EPP membership, the ruling party's deputy... 2020.01.15.
Reconstructed Monument of National Martyrs Inaugurated in Budapest The reconstructed post-WWI monument dedicated to the martyrs of the communist Red Terror in 1919 was inaugurated by Prime Minister... 2019.11.04.
Hungarian Press Roundup: Article 7 Procedure against Hungary After a rule of law hearing about Hungary in Brussels on Monday, a pro-government commentator finds it strange that Hungary... 2019.09.19.
Szijjártó: Boris Johnson ‘Knows What He Is Doing’, Striving to Fulfil Popular Will British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is an exceptionally good politician who knows what he wants and is working to fulfil... 2019.09.13.
Rule of Law Criterias to Rule EU Funding in Upcoming Years? Although ahead of the EP elections, the Fidesz-led Hungarian government was optimistic that it would not be included, Hungary's rule... 2019.09.11.
President Áder: ‘We Shape Our Own Laws and Expel Foreign, Barbaric Ideas” Thanks to 1989 Achievements "After thirty years, we are rightly proud of our achievements in 1989", President János Áder said in his address at... 2019.08.20.
Deputy PM: Brussels’s Migration Policy ‘Unfair, Unlawful, Antidemocratic’ The migration policy pursued by "Brussels bureaucrats" is "unfair, unlawful and antidemocratic", the deputy prime minister in charge of Hungarian... 2019.05.15.
Juncker: Orbán Is Not A Dictator President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker doesn’t think Viktor Orbán is a dictator nor does he believe in the... 2019.04.29.
Orbán in China: ‘Accept That Different Political Systems Can Be More Successful’ Prime Minister Viktor Orbán drew the global political lessons of the past decade at a closed forum of delegation heads... 2019.04.29.
Orbán: Hungary Wants to Bolster Ties with Eastern Countries Hungary views the changed balance between East and West as an opportunity rather than a danger and wants to use... 2019.04.24.
Hungarian Press Roundup: The PM Calls for the Protection of ‘Christian Heritage’ A pro-government commentator welcomes PM Orbán’s statement about the vital importance of Christianity for Europe, while Hungary’s only neocon pundit... 2019.04.15.
Hungary Multiparty Parliamentary Democracy, Says US State Dept Report Hungary is a multiparty parliamentary democracy, the US State Department said in its 2018 country reports on human rights practices... 2019.03.14.
Szijjártó: German President Unable to Accept Hungarians’ Anti-Migration Stance The German president is unable to accept the Hungarian people's decision that Hungary should not become a country of immigrants,... 2018.10.02.
Budapest Think Tank the Danube Institute Hosts Conference on “Debating Democracy” Last Thursday, the Danube Institute, a conservative think tank based in Budapest, hosted a conference entitled Debating Democracy, in which... 2017.03.03.
Leading Hungarian Orientalist: Coexistence Of Islam And Democracy Is Impossible "There is no way Islam and democracy can work together", a leading Hungarian orientalist has claimed in an interview. Historian... 2016.08.11.
Freedom House, Hungarian Government Clash Over “Democracy Ratings” Hungary slipped in Freedom House’s democracy ratings for last year, according to the US-based human rights watchdog’s Nations in Transit... 2015.06.24.
Euractiv: Justice Minister Defends Hungary’s “Conservative Democracy” European news portal euractiv.com has published an interview with László Trócsányi, Hungary's Justice Minister. According to Trócsányi, it is always difficult... 2015.04.02.
