Hungary and Poland find a way to block the EU’s new seven-year budget and Covid-19 recovery fund. The European Union is facing an almost unprecedented crisis after...
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The Hungarian parliament adopted controversial legislation late on March 30 granting Viktor Orbán, the country’s authoritarian prime minister, sweeping emergency powers...
Pressure is mounting on EU leaders to agree on the bloc’s next seven-year budget, a framework crucial for most economies in emerging Europe. A special summit on February...
Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán has a long history of avoiding questions from independent media outlets. Using the playbook of US President Donald Trump, he has a...
Gergely Karácsony, the newly elected mayor of Budapest, has called for the creation of an “alliance of free cities” in Central Europe to counterweigh the power of what...
Finland’s prime minister, Antti Rinne, has told his Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán that his country will remain committed to linking European Union funds to...
Just hours after voting to block the candidacy of Romania’s Rovan Plumb, members of the European Parliament’s legal oversight committee (JURI) has also voted to...
The US ambassador to Hungary, David Cornstein, “may have inappropriately interfered” with the establishment of the Hungarian edition of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty...
Frans Timmermans, the vice president of the outgoing European Commission, has warned the Hungarian and Polish governments that the EU’s fight to protect the rule of law...
The president-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has offered the Czech Republic’s Věra Jourová, currently the European Commissioner for Justice...
Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán attended a celebratory mass in Sopron, western Hungary on August 19 to commemorate the...
More than 200 civil society organisations have signed a letter asking members of the European parliament to reject the nomination of Hungarian MEP Balázs Hidvéghi for...
The Hungarian government has announced that it will postpone the introduction of the so-called administrative courts system for an undecided period, widely seen as an...