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Szijjártó posts from Moscow announcing preparations for Paks 2 cement work
This is the 17th time the Hungarian FM has visited Moscow since 2022. The potential Hungarian acquisition of a stake in the Serbian oil company NIS, owned by Gazprom, may be one of the reasons...

… Prior to this, the minister had been in Istanbul for the first joint meeting of the Turkish-Hungary Joint Consultation Mechanism . … The meeting was attended by foreign ministers, defence ministers, national security advisors, and leaders of defence industry companies. He flew to Moscow from there, accompanied by a business delegation. …

The peace plan Orbán supports is actually a Russian war plan – Péter Buda
In our interview with national security expert Péter Buda, he asks: Why else would Putin insist on radically weakening Ukraine's defense capabilities if not for the purpose of further...

… which is now becoming less and less optional and increasingly a constraint for him, Péter Buda, national … In the current situation, therefore, consultation between Moscow and Budapest was necessary in order for the Hungarian Prime Minister to optimize the effectiveness of his diplomatic activities in this changed context. … This is exactly what I wrote about in the spring in my articles on the Christian-Nationalist Change of the World Order and the Change and International Transformation of Civilizations. …

‘The situation is tense’ – How Orbán has tried to overcome Fidesz’ internal crisis
Fidesz underestimated opposition leader Péter Magyar so much that they realized too late that he posed a real threat to them. Direkt36 reveals how Viktor Orbán launched his spring offensive against...

… The reputation of Minister of National Economy Márton Nagy has also been tarnished, with even some in Fidesz circles joking about his predictions, which almost never come true. … Since no such category exists in Hungarian law, Orbán quickly added that the vote would be conducted in a manner similar to national consultations. … Although Orbán claimed that this latest consultation was about deciding on a matter of national importance, according to a source close to the government, the primary purpose of the announced campaign was to test the organizational efficiency of Fidesz … (Orbán has since essentially acknowledged in his speech in Kötcse, that the national consultations conducted by the government are in fact a means of mobilizing support for Fidesz . … According to a government source, the four of them had opposed the proposal since it was first submitted, had been in constant consultation with each other, and had tried separately to convince Orbán that they were right. …

Child protection shortcomings back in focus of Hungarian domestic politics
The arrest of a Fidesz-appointed former director of a juvenile detention center on human trafficking and forced labour charges, and a few unsubstantiated claims on social media made their way into...

… Over the summer, they organized a conference on child protection, and they recently announced a national consultation which will include the question: “Do you support the Tisza government launching an independent inquiry into the child abuse cases of …

Hungary to buy 400 million cubic meters of French LNG annually, FM announces
This is Hungary's second LNG-deal with a western provider within a few weeks.

… The issue of energy supply is so important to the Hungarian government that it will even be addressed in the forthcoming national consultation. …

Massive protest held in Budapest against state-funded propaganda campaigns
Tens of thousands gathered to speak up against the government spending taxpayers’ money on campaigns which incite hatred, mislead voters and divide the society.

… Thousands of people filled Budapest’s Heroes’ Square to the brim on Sunday night to protest the government’s massive propaganda campaigns (on social media, YouTube, billboards and through the so-called national consultations ) which have become a regular …

Orbán announces national consultation on Tisza’s supposed “leaked tax plans”
An unsubstantiated claim that Fidesz’s biggest challenger in the upcoming 2026 elections would raise taxes if they came to power is reason enough for the Hungarian government to use public funds “to...

… And in his speech on Sunday, Orbán made it clear that they don’t intend to drop the subject: he announced that they would soon be launching yet another national consultation, this time, about “Tisza’s leaked plan to raise taxes”. … He also said that the consultation is “part of the mobilization”. … This is all the more interesting, because Fidesz justified all fourteen national consultations held so far (paid for from public funds, by the way) by saying that “the fate of the nation depended on them”. …

The USAID dead end: Pride wasn't the only thing the Orbán administration tripped over
Viktor Orbán's war against the "global elite" is not going well: banning Pride only led to an even bigger event, the transparency bill had to be shelved, and it seems that the search for USAID funds...

… The core of this ideology is that there is a “global power elite” that opposes national interests, but only very few political actors are willing to stand up to this force. … However, as for his original task, or more precisely, its outcome, László only said at the time that he was continuing consultations with the Americans "All the tentacles must be chopped off!" … So much so that on March 15, the Prime Minister added fuel to the fire when, in his speech delivered on the national holiday, he compared NGOs critical of the government, independent journalists, the judges protesting for the independence of the judiciary …

Polish Foreign Ministry to Telex: Recalling of ambassador not political signal
His mandate would have expired anyway, and it was not terminated because Hungary had granted political asylum to former deputy minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted in Poland for criminal...

… At the same time, they said that when Kęciek had previously been recalled to Warsaw for consultations, it was because the Hungarian authorities had granted asylum to former deputy minister Marcin Romanowski. … According to the Polish National Prosecutor's Office, the politician committed eleven different crimes and is, among others, accused of participating in an organized criminal group and embezzling public funds. …

Infuriated with Hungarian government, Poland definitively recalls its ambassador from Budapest
This is without precedent in the history of Hungary's relations with its Central European partners, Levente Magyar, State Secretary for Foreign Affairs said.

… In addition, Poland's ambassador to Hungary, Sebastian Kęciek, was also recalled for consultations. In diplomacy, both gestures are a strong sign of outrage, as we wrote at the time. … According to the Polish National Prosecutor's Office, the politician committed eleven different crimes and is, among others, accused of participating in an organized criminal group and embezzling public funds. …

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