Category: Politics

Balázs Orbán, the prime minister’s political director, participated in the Raisina Dialogue, India’s most important geopolitical forum, and gave an interview to an Indian newspaper. “The Ukraine war has shown that Europe is struggling with a leadership crisis and lacks strategic autonomy, but there is optimism outside with India proving to be one of the…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán gave an interview on Radio Kossuth on Friday, in which he discussed the election of the new head of state, as well as migration, war and Sweden’s accession to NATO. Head of State The Prime Minister justified the nomination of Tamás Sulyok, president of the Constitutional Court, as head of state…

Katalin Novák and Sergio Mattarella in Rome Hungarian President Katalin Novák arrived in Rome on Wednesday for an official visit, where she meets her Italian counterpart, members of the government, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. She also gave an interview to Corriere della Sera. The Russo-Ukrainian war was the main topic of discussion between Hungarian…

“The goal is to preserve European unity, because if the facts do not matter in debates, only whether a particular government is sympathetic or not, it will tear the European Union apart,” said Gergely Gulyás, the Minister heading Prime Minister’s Office. The politician was a guest on the podcast The Bold Truth About Hungary, produced…

Alexandra Pelosi has roamed the U.S. Capitol for decades, shooting video of her mother, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.  Alexandra has popped into bill signing ceremonies. Stood in the rear at press conferences. Shot voluminous hours of video of the speaker walking from her office near the Capitol Rotunda, across the marble, black and white…

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…