Orbán's challenge: How to talk about 1956 after his political director's scandal?
Viktor Orbán has described the Hungarian revolution of 1956 as many things in his speeches before, always in line with his political interests at the time. This is why it is a big question what he...
Russian prisoners of war in Ukraine: They sent us in like cannon fodder
October 22. 2024. – 02:18 PM
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Huszti István (fotó)
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Andrea Horváth Kávai (translation)
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Nyilas Gergely
There has been very little on-the-spot coverage of the war in Ukraine in the Hungarian press. On their most recent trip to the war-torn country, Telex's journalists brought back a report from a...
Fico's government would tighten Slovakia’s language law, fining Hungarian-populated settlements...
The tightening was initiated by the Minister of Culture in order to "consolidate the status of the state language and guarantee efficient state control".
Orbán: The EPP has found a party it would like to see govern here
Viktor Orbán said that the EPP had announced what it wants: this government should go and another party should come. As for Zelensky's victory plan, he said it can only lead to losing.
Szijjártó on the Russians, gas, and the Prime Minister’s son
The Hungarian Foreign Minister doesn’t understand why it matters whether the PM’s son was with him in Chad, and although he considers what they wrote about him a serious distortion, he will continue...
Majority of Fidesz voters believe Russia attacked Ukraine to defend itself, poll finds
Among other things, Závecz Research's opinion poll measured Hungarians' perception of the war in Ukraine and their support for EU and NATO membership.
A commemoration honouring 1956 planned in EP to spite Fidesz, while two committees turn down...
The initiators would like to hold a commemoration about 1956 in the EP specifically because of Balázs Orbán's recent statements, according to Szabad Európa. And Népszava has learned that, unusually,...
'The verdict was delivered before the investigation had been conducted' – Transparency...
The anti-corruption NGO says that the report of the Sovereignty Protection Office is reminiscent of the communist era and that the SPO failed to comply with the legal requirements about the report's...
Why didn't Balázs Orbán's remarks about '56 lead to another clemency scandal?
Although both cases called into question the very essence of Fidesz policy, the PM's political director remained in his position after the scandal, while Katalin Novák and Judit Varga had to go. A...
European People's Party: It's time for Orbán to go
It’s time to bring Hungary back, closer to Europe and give it a chance to recover from the consequences of poor leadership – the party writes in its recent post.
