Category: Politics

The EU integration of the Western Balkans, economic and bilateral issues were on the agenda during the meeting between Viktor Orbán and Milorad Dodik. The Hungarian Prime Minister received Milorad Dodik, the Serbian member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the recently re-elected leader of the Bosnian Serbs. They discussed the European integration…

Federal prosecutors in 2022 are wrapped up the fourth year of their investigation into Hunter Biden for possible tax and foreign lobbying violations, false statements and more. Hunter Biden has been under federal investigation since 2018. The probe was predicated, in part, by suspicious activity reports (SARs) regarding suspicious foreign transactions. Those SARs, according to…

 “The heroes of the 1956 revolution were very different people, but they were all in love with the ideal of a free Hungary,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Hungary’s national holiday. The country is now capable of defending its interests, he stressed. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held a speech on Hungary’s national holiday marking…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s visit to Berlin has been widely reported in the German and international press. Some of his suggestions were deemed provocative. The Financial Times, the Washington Post, and Politico, among others, highlighted that Viktor Orbán said at a panel discussion in Berlin on Tuesday that only former US President Donald Trump…

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., says he’s not resigning. That is, if you believe him. Still, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., isn’t doing anything about Santos. McCarthy will even assign Santos to House committees. “I try to stick by the Constitution, and the voters elected him to serve,” said McCarthy. “He’s going to have to build…

During times of crisis, one must take action and must alleviate troubles, Viktor Orbán said at the meeting of the Centrist Democrat International (CDI). Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the leadership meeting of Centrist Democrat International (CDI) in Panama City via video conference on Saturday. Viktor Orbán is also the vice-president of the center-right…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke about the changes taking place in the world and the strategic directions of Hungarian foreign policy at the annual ambassadors’ meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on Tuesday morning. “The hegemony of the West has come to an end, no one doubts this today, as it is…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Hungarian Parliament on Monday, where he discussed EU sanctions, the energy and economic situation, the Russian-Ukrainian war, and the ongoing debate with the European Union. The Hungarian government will be the first in Europe to ask the people about sanctions against Russia, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Parliament…

On February 15, Die Presse launched a new English-language debate magazine, European Voices, published in cooperation with the Austrian Council of Foreign Relations and the United Nations. For the first issue, former Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel traveled to Budapest for an in-depth interview with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, reports Magyar Nemzet. During the debate, Viktor…

CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire’s Republican and Democrat leaders are making it crystal clear that the state that’s held the first-in-the-nation presidential primary for the past century will not give into demands from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to give up their early voting position in the Democrats’ presidential nominating calendar. Longtime New Hampshire Democratic…

On Monday afternoon the Hungarian Prime has tweeted a supporting message to sentenced American publicist and political advisor Steve Bannon. In his social media post Orbán Viktor has remarked that politics can get ugly and accused those leading the political campaign against Bannon of a political witch-hunt, calling the publicist a true American patriot, and…

Hungarian President Katalin Novák paid a visit to Kosovo on Tuesday, and praised the courage of Hungarian soldiers serving in the KFOR mission. “Hungary is playing a mediating role between the Western Balkans and the European Union,” Hungarian President Katalin Novák said at a joint press conference with her Kosovo counterpart Vjosa Osmani in Pristina…

The “master plan” of the liberal mainstream has failed in the United States, thus making it impossible to exclude Donald Trump from the primary elections, as stated by Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó. During a joint press conference with his Bosnian counterpart Elmedin Konaković, Minister Szijjártó applauded the failure of the liberal…

The only message I have for you today is that we cannot effectively support women until we take into account that most of them (most of us) are mothers or will be mothers at some point, said Hungarian President Katalin Novák at the annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women in…

Hungarian President Katalin Novák (L) and Portugese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa The Russian-Ukrainian war, the need to reach a peace agreement between the two sides as soon as possible, demographic issues and the strengthening of the national defense forces and the volunteer reserve forces were among the topics discussed by Hungarian President Katalin Novák…

Three weeks ago an MP for the left-wing student movement Momentum demanded during a parliamentary session that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán should reveal the amount he pays for his domestic bills. Clearly Dávid Bedő’s goal was to embarrass the head the government with revelations of a lower than average bill, but the prime minister only…

The newly elected President, Tamás Sulyok, aims to build trust through mutual listening and understanding free from prejudice. Speaking in Parliament on Monday, he stressed that he is in favor of the widest possible transparency in certain areas of authority, such as medals and pardons. The new head of state, who is also president of…

President Katalin Novák spoke about the difficulties, challenges, and achievements of the past year at the traditional New Year reception for the diplomatic corps on Wednesday evening. Speaking at the Hungarian House of Music in Budapest, Katalin Novák recalled that 2022 had been an extremely difficult year, as the country had just recovered from the…

Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump in 2022 Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will meet later today with former U.S. President (R) Donald Trump, who is currently a presidential candidate. As it was reported in the press, yesterday, the Prime Minister begun his program in Washington, D.C., and will travel from there to Mar-a-Lago, Florida, where he…

The long-term solution to the energy crisis is to bring as much energy as possible to the European continent from as many directions as possible, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday in Budapest, where he met with Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. The two leaders signed a strategic partnership agreement. In a joint press…