Category: Politics

Republican Rep. Carlos Giménez of Florida is pushing Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for answers on the crisis at the southern border. Giménez’s Tuesday letter to Mayorkas comes two days after his in-person meeting with the DHS Chief in Miami, along with Reps. Maria Salazar and Mario Diaz-Balart, where they discussed, among other…

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who served as ambassador to the United Nations during former President Donald Trump’s administration, is expected to declare her candidacy for president Wednesday, joining Trump as the only major Republicans to date to have launched White House campaigns. Haley spotlighted her countdown on Monday, tweeting, “Just two days until…

Hungarian President Katalin Novák discussed the war in Ukraine and migration with her Austrian counterpart, Alexander Van der Bellen in Vienna. Hungarian President Katalin Novák attended a joint press conference with Austria’s head of state, Alexander Van der Bellen in Vienna on Thursday. According to Novák, they are both committed to a stable relationship between…

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, weighed in on the prediction from four-star Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, who warned his commanders to prepare for war with China in roughly two years’ time. Minihan predicted that fighting will come after China takes advantage of the U.S. being preoccupied with the 2024 election to take action against Taiwan,…

Whoever invented the sanctions imposed by Brussels over the war in Ukraine is Russia’s best friend, as the European Union has harmed not Russia but itself with these measures, Gergely Gulyás, the minister leading the Prime Minister’s Office, told Swiss weekly Weltwoche. In a compilation of the conversation with Gergely Gulyás published in the Thursday…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Es Sisi discussed the war in Ukraine and illegal migration in Cairo on Tuesday. The Hungarian prime minister’s press chief told news agency MTI that both sides stressed that Hungary’s relations with Egypt are now 95 years old and that cooperation has never been as good as…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talked to Budapester Zeitung about relations between Germany and Hungary, the war in Ukraine, and the government’s negotiations with the European Commission about the withheld EU funds to which Hungary is entitled. The German government’s program is a world apart from the Hungarian government’s views, and the Social Democratic Party of…

President Katalin Novák’s visit to Iraq continued in Erbil over the weekend with meeting the president of the Kurdistan Region, attending the inauguration of a school supported by the Hungary Helps Program, traveling to a town rebuilt with Hungarian help, and visiting Hungarian troops. Katalin Novák – the first Hungarian head of state to visit…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received Armenian Catholic Patriarch Raphael Bedros XXI who handed over the Holy Cross Medal of Gratitude to the Hungarian Prime Minister on Wednesday. according to the laudation. In his acceptance speech, Viktor Orbán quoted Hungary’s first king, St. Stephen who – in his admonitions already a thousand years ago – stressed…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received world-renowned American political scientist and professor John Mearsheimer, who is regarded as one of the most influential experts on international relations of our time, at the Carmelite Monastery on Tuesday. PM Orbán and Mearsheimer held an informal discussion, which was also attended by Balázs Orbán, the Prime Minister’s political…

Shortly after a few members of the Democratic Party announced their departure to new political affiliation, moderate Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., revealed that he will not be leaving the party — for now. “I’ll look at all of these things. I’ve always looked at all those things, but I have no intention of doing anything…

Ulf Kristersson (L) and Viktor Orbán (R) on February 23, 2024 On Monday, Viktor Orbán asked MPs in the National Assembly to adopt the parliamentary resolution on Sweden’s accession to NATO. In his speech before the agenda, the Prime Minister stressed that Swedish-Hungarian military-industrial cooperation and Sweden’s accession to NATO will strengthen Hungary’s security. He…

Participants of the VIVA 22 festival organized by the VOX party in Madrid received a message of support from Viktor Orbán. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán greeted the participants of the Spanish VIVA 22 festival in a video message this weekend. The major political and cultural festival was held in Madrid and is organized annually…

Only signed by the Rams last week, Mayfield stunned the football world, leading Los Angeles to two touchdowns in the final three minutes and 19 seconds to play in a game against the Las Vegas Raiders. Mayfield fired the winning, 23-yard touchdown pass to Van Jefferson with a scant 10 seconds left on the clock….

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán heavily criticized the “disastrous” EU sanctions against Russia and called for an immediate ceasefire. „The EU’s policy of sanctions against Russia is primitive in its implementation and disastrous in its effects”, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Tuesday in Berlin, in a panel discussion with the editor-in-chief of the…

Viktor Orbán’s policies are getting more and more attention in the United States. Donald Trump has sent a message of greetings to the Hungarian Prime Minister, who is also being discussed in the American press. Donald Trump sent a message to Viktor Orbán. The former US President wrote in handwriting, in English, on a Wall…

Hatice Cengiz, who was engaged to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi prior to his death, is asking a federal court not to go along with the Biden administration’s position that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has immunity from litigation – particularly Cengiz’s lawsuit accusing him of being liable for Khashoggi’s death. The administration’s position is…

Balázs Hidvéghi, MEP of the governing Fidesz party, accused the European Parliament of ideological pressure and violation of national competencies in the debate on the Istanbul Convention. The European Parliament has adopted a report demanding the European Union to ratify the Istanbul Convention. “The text, adopted by 469 in favor, 104 against, and 55 abstentions,…

Mario Radić, vice-president of the Croatian opposition party Homeland Movement (Domovinski pokret), recently said on a political program that Viktor Orbán had been able to get gas and oil even in the midst of the current energy crisis, predicting that people would celebrate him for this. The Croatian politician criticized the EU’s sanctions policy, saying…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will hold talks with Olaf Scholz on Monday in Berlin. The next day he will attend a discussion organized by leading German media outlets. “Germans and Hungarians alike have Europe at heart. This is true even if we do not agree on all issues and think differently about certain things,”…