Category: Politics

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán emphasized the importance of stopping illegal migration at the oath-taking ceremony of border hunters. “You have the whole country behind you and it is your task to protect the motherland against migration,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a ceremony held in Budapest on Friday on the occasion of the establishment…

After more than a year and a half, the presidents of the Visegrád Group met again in Bratislava on Tuesday. The Visegrád Group is at least as important, if not more, than the Benelux countries, but it would be good to expand it to include Slovenia, Czech President Milos Zeman said at a joint press…

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments in the case against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFBP) that could knock the legs out from under the agency that has been a thorn in the side of Republicans since Elizabeth Warren helped create it after the 2008 market crash. The issue before the court is…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the EU Summit Igor Zhovka, Deputy Head of the Ukrainian President’s Office, recently told Radio Free Europe’s Ukrainian website that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was invited to Kiev at the February European Council summit and that they are looking forward to welcoming…

Morocco is not close to the war in Ukraine, but it is facing the negative impact of the war, as a large part of its wheat imports have so far come from Russia and Ukraine, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Monday in Budapest. In a joint press conference with Morocco’s Minister of Higher Education…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the summit of the European Union and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Brussels on Wednesday and held bilateral meetings with ASEAN leaders. According to the European Council’s statement, the first-ever summit between the leaders of EU and ASEAN member states marked 45 years of diplomatic relations. The…

Hungarian President Katalin Novák traveled to London to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. The Hungarian head of state wrote on Facebook on Sunday that she traveled to London with her husband to pay their respects “on behalf of the Hungarian people to Queen Elizabeth II at her coffin as she lies in…

Hungary attaches great importance to good relations with North Macedonia, as the integration of the Western Balkans is in the interest of the whole of Europe, said President Katalin Novák, who held talks with her North Macedonian counterpart, Stevo Pendarovski, in Skopje on Monday. Among the topics of the meeting, Katalin Novák highlighted the issue…

President of Hungary Katalin Novák attended the Bucharest Nine (B9) Summit of the Eastern European NATO member states in Warsaw on Wednesday. She stressed that the recent history of our region reminds us of the need to focus our attention on building and preserving peace. She added that once peace is established, we must contribute…

President Biden was not even halfway through his 68-minute State of the Union speech when Simon Rosenberg, the rare Democrat strategist who is bullish on Biden’s re-election prospects, fired off a note to the readers of his Substack newsletter. “The President is Kicking Ass!” it read (though with many more exclamation points attached). The Biden…

The opinion came as a reaction to the news that Germany has accepted a rescue package worth hundreds of billions of euros. This was “the equivalent of a bombshell”, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a press conference following the Hungarian-Serbian-Austrian summit. In the Hungarian Prime Minister’s view Germany’s announcement that it is supporting its…

GOP Rep. Lee Zeldin, who came very close to upsetting Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul last month in the predominantly blue state of New York, announced on Wednesday that he’s holding off – for now – on running for Republican National Committee chair, in what would be a direct challenge to current RNC chair Ronna McDaniel….

The government has drawn its political conclusions from the case that has dominated the Hungarian public over the past two weeks, Gergely Gulyás said at Friday’s cabinet briefing, reported Magyar Nemzet. The Minister responsible for the Prime Minister’s office reminded that the government has always placed a unique emphasis on family support and the protection…

Democratic California Rep. Nancy Pelosi will support Rep. Adam Schiff of California to replace Sen. Dianne Feinstein if she chooses not to seek re-election, she said in a statement Thursday.  “I will be supporting House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff, who knows well the nexus between a strong democracy and a strong economy,” Pelosi, the…

Last month, French historian Thibaud Gibelin’s book about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hit Hungarian bookshops. The book, Viktor Orbán is playing to win (Orbán Viktor győzelemre játszik), was originally published in France in 2020. The historian told the news portal Index that “the Hungarian Prime Minister has a European dimension, which makes him a significant…

On Tuesday night, the government lifted the fuel price freeze in Hungary. As a result, Hungarians can now only fill up at market prices. The situation was discussed at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, where Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that sanctions-affected petrol prices are in force in Europe. The Hungarian government explained the lifting…

Hungary needs an effective army of deterrent force that can guarantee peace, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held a speech at the swearing-in ceremony of citizens undertaking voluntary military service and the official delivery of Lynx combat vehicles in Budapest on Saturday. He stressed that Hungarians need an effective army of…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed the importance of a ceasefire as soon as possible, after holding talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Council in Brussels. Saving lives is only possible with peace and a ceasefire. We Hungarians remain on the side of peace, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stressed in a video posted…

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida accused the Biden administration Wednesday of eroding the legitimacy of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó.  In a letter to the president, Cruz and Rubio said they were concerned that Biden’s policies “are threatening to erode the international recognition and legitimacy of Juan Guaidó as the…

The podium discussion in Berlin last week, attended by Viktor Orbán, has helped to make the Hungarian position better understood in Germany, according to one of the journalists who took part. Tomasz Kurianowicz, a journalist from the Berliner Zeitung newspaper, told Hungarian public Kossuth Radio that the panel discussion with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in…