Press Roundup: Dissecting Hungary’s Approach to the War in Ukraine The Hungarian weeklies and the weekend editions of the daily papers ponder Hungary’s relationship to the Russian-Ukrainian war, and where... 2022.07.25.
Viktor Orbán Sets out His Vision Concerning Hungary’s Future in a Decade of Conflict Pillars of Western civilization are cracking In Viktor Orbán’s view, the next decade will be a decade of danger, uncertainty... 2022.07.23.
‘Tusványos’ – Slowdown of Economy, Agricultural Self-Sufficiency, and Minority Rights Analyzed by Speakers of Free University Lectures on the expected economic recession, the importance of agricultural self-sufficiency, and minority rights were held at the 31st Bálványos... 2022.07.22.
Foreign Minister Travels to Moscow to Talk Energy Supplies and Peace At a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, the minister underlined that the government has a duty... 2022.07.21.
Finance Minister Varga: EU Weakened by Its Own Sanctions The European Union is essentially weakened by its own sanctions- the question is whether it can survive the punitive measures... 2022.07.21.
Energy and Climate Policy Expert: EU Emergency Gas Rationing “Completely Absurd” The European Commission is preparing new emergency powers to force EU countries to reduce their gas consumption if the bloc... 2022.07.20.
Filling Up Gas Reserves Is Key to Economic Stability, Finance Minister Warns Uncertain energy supplies, high energy prices, and inflation are currently the greatest threats to European economies; therefore, filling up natural gas... 2022.07.13.
Press Roundup: Weeklies on the Ukrainian War, Sanctions, and the EU Commentators disagree sharply on what should be done to bring about peace in Ukraine, as well as over the rights... 2022.07.12.
House Speaker Claims European Politics Ignores Most Basic Existential Interests of the People The European Union's politics is "far from reality" and "fully neglects the most fundamental existential interests of its own voters,"... 2022.07.07.
Prime Minister Orbán: Only Way to End War Inflation Is to End the War The only way to end wartime inflation is by putting an end to the war, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told... 2022.07.01.
President Novák: Art and Culture Are Needed ‘Even in the Darkest Times’ Opening a landmark exhibition of Henri Matisse's works at Budapest's Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday, President Katalin Novák said... 2022.06.30.
Foreign Minister: Direct Confrontation between NATO, Russia Must Be Avoided A direct confrontation between NATO and Russia must be avoided at all costs, especially since the war in Ukraine is... 2022.06.30.
Foreign Minister: Gas Deliveries Resume to Hungary via Turkish Stream Delivery of natural gas to Hungary resumed on the Turkish Stream pipeline on Monday evening after scheduled maintenance works, Péter... 2022.06.29.
Foreign Minister: Hungary ‘Won’t Even Discuss’ Possibility of Gas Embargo Hungary's government refuses to even discuss the possibility of imposing an embargo on Russian natural gas, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó... 2022.06.28.
Foreign Secretary Szijjártó: Higher Energy Prices, Dwindling Supply, Produce Vicious Cycle The fallout of the war in Ukraine and related sanctions have resulted in a vicious cycle of skyrocketing energy prices... 2022.06.28.
Minister Gulyás: Our Policy Is to Build Alliances – At Home and Abroad In an interview published on Monday with hirado.hu, Gergely Gulyás, Minister of the Prime Minister's Office, said that the aim... 2022.06.28.
Gazprom to Make Up for Shortfall of Gas For a week, Hungary will receive less Russian gas than agreed, but the country will be able to make up... 2022.06.22.
Russian Gas Cut Off from Pipelines Including Those Supplying Hungary Gazprom will stop gas supplies on the TurkStream pipeline for a week as of June 21st. Since September of last... 2022.06.21.
What Remains of the Polish-Hungarian Friendship? – Conversation Between Polish and Hungarian Politicians "The past 100 years will not disappear without a trace from the history of Polish-Hungarian relations." Leading Polish politicians spoke... 2022.06.16.
Press Roundup: Sanctions on Russia and Europe’s Future Commentators across the political spectrum ponder the broader implications of EU sanctions on the future of Europe. Hungarian press roundup... 2022.06.13.
Hungarian and Czech President Confirm V4 Cooperation Commitment Hungary and the Czech Republic have confirmed their commitment to the Visegrád Four cooperation, President Katalin Novák said in Prague... 2022.06.08.