Category: Politics

The Visegrád Four countries are ready to tackle the challenges of migration together with the Hungarian-Serbian-Austrian alliance. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán spoke optimistically about the future of the bloc at a summit on Thursday. According to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the countries of the Visegrád Group (V4): the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia…

For the second weekend in a row, former Vice President Mike Pence’s cross-country book tour for his memoir “So Help Me God” is taking him to a prominent mega church with an extremely influential pastor who was a strong supporter of former President Donald Trump. Pence travels to the Cornerstone Church in San Antonio, Texas…

EU finance ministers did not support the bloc’s plan to provide 18 billion euros in aid to Ukraine via joint borrowing, but approved an amendment to the financial regulation, allowing the “financing of the macro-financial assistance to take place within the so-called diversified funding strategy,” at their meeting in Brussels on Tuesday. Media reports claimed…

The Prague City Court on Monday acquitted former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in the so-called Stork’s Nest case. The acquittal comes just days before the Czech presidential elections in which Andrej Babiš is a strong candidate. On Friday and Saturday, some 8.3 million Czech voters will decide on the successor to the outgoing head…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review an appellate court ruling that says state district attorneys must follow a 28-year-old law that requires prosecutors to add “strikes” based on a defendant’s past convictions that would lengthen their sentences, according to a report.  Progressive Los Angeles County…

The Hungarian economy will lose 4,000 billion forints (EUR 9.8 billion) through no fault of its own simply because of the increase in energy prices, Viktor Orbán said at an economic event organized for the Széchenyi Card Program. The Hungarian Prime Minister stressed that next year the same quantity and quality of energy as this…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held an extraordinary meeting with members of the government to discuss the missile incident in Poland and the shutdown of the Friendship oil pipeline. The Hungarian government believes that calm responses are needed to avoid escalation. Two people have been killed when a missile landed outside the rural Polish village of…

Virginia Democrats in the state Senate killed two measures supported by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin aimed at combatting antisemitism just two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week. Senate bill 1252 would’ve had Virginia recognize a commonly used “working definition of antisemitism” adopted in 2016 by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), an intergovernmental organization…

The corruption scandal involving the European Parliament’s left-wing vice-president overshadowed the EU summit, according to Viktor Orbán. The arrest of the European Parliament’s vice-president, Greek Socialist MEP Eva Kaili was a hot topic at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday too. Ahead of the summit, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo criticized the institution…

According to the AfD’s reaction to Viktor Orbán’s interview, the German government has less regard for bilateral relations than the Hungarian government. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party reacted to a recent interview in Budapester Zeitung, where Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán talked about the relations between Hungary’s governing Fidesz party and German parties. The…

Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced her departure from the Democratic Party to become an Independent on Friday morning. The move made headlines, though many Democrats, and Sinema herself, don’t see her defection as particularly surprising. An unabashed centrist and staunch defender of the filibuster, Sinema has exercised outsized influence in the Senate throughout her first…

Viktor Orbán spoke about Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen Area and the need to re-evaluate the EU’s sanctions against Russia. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attended the EU-Western Balkans summit in Tirana on Tuesday. On arrival, he spoke briefly to journalists. The prime minister said that it is rather unfair that Bulgaria has not been accepted yet…

Katalin Novák traveled to Kiev to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky with fellow European leaders and visited ethnic Hungarian communities in Transcarpathia during the weekend. Hungarian President Katalin Novák attended the Grain from Ukraine summit in Kiev on Saturday at the invitation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, alongside the prime ministers of Poland, Belgium, and…

Both the German and Hungarian heads of government support EU enlargement, but Olaf Scholz would associate consequences with this that Hungary is not in favor of in the least. “In the near future, the European Union should include among its members the countries of the Western Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia, among others,” German Chancellor…

The relationship between Hungary and the EU, the global political situation in Europe, and the enlargement of the Western Balkans were also discussed in a recent interview with President Katalin Novák. There is no Hungarian future without Europe, just as there is no European future without Hungary, emphasized President of the Republic Katalin Novák in…

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It was a good start to the day for Hungarian seniors: Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced this morning that pensions will be increased by 15 percent from 1 January. In a video shared on his Facebook page, the prime minister said that Brussel’s sanctions against Russia had led to an energy crisis throughout Europe, which…

Hungary’s head of state Katalin Novák met with Nicolas Sarkozy, visited UNESCO, and held a lecture in front of university students during her stay in Paris. President Katalin Novák traveled to Paris to attend the International Peace Forum at the invitation of her French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron. Novák’s first trip on Thursday took her to…

UPDATE: He was the obvious choice all along. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has inspired the world, and now he’s been enshrined by Time as Person of the Year. The magazine did a nice head-fake in playing up some other names, and in the column below, written yesterday, I said the Ukrainian president was unlikely to get the…

Hungary’s President Katalin Novák discussed bilateral issues, the EU sanctions, and the upcoming municipal elections with Slovak President Zuzana Caputová, Prime Minister Eduard Heger, and local Hungarian leaders in Bratislava. “We need EU economic sanctions that cause serious economic hardship to the Russian aggressor, not to the people and economy of Europe,” Hungarian President Katalin…