On Monday July 17, US President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a highly-publicised summit in Helsinki. Roundly criticised by Republicans and Democrats alike for the meeting, and facing international condemnation for the...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has officially handed over the presidency of the Visegrád Group (V4) to his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini, who will lead the...
The Council of Europe’s Venice Commission has adopted an opinion which fiercely criticises a key provision on illegal migration in the so-called Stop Soros pack of...
The United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR, has called on the Hungarian government to withdraw a package of laws set to be introduced in the Hungarian parliament that...
Emigration is the elephant in emerging Europe’s room. With the catastrophic numbers of people leaving the region (at least from some parts) speaking for themselves, the...
The Stop Soros law package, announced by the Hungarian government in January, would appear to have achieved its goal: the George Soros Open Society Foundations (OSF)...
More than 100,000 Hungarians gathered in front of the parliament building in Budapest on April 14, where they peacefully protested for democracy, calling upon Prime...
Less than 48 hours after the Hungarian parliamentary elections, comfortably won by the Fidesz party of prime minister Viktor Orbán, the largest conservative newspaper in...
That incumbent Viktor Orbán won a third term as Hungarian prime minister on April 8 came as a surprise to nobody: the Hungarian electoral system, one of the most...
Over the past eight years Hungarian democracy suffered a lot under the regime of Viktor Orbán. Before 2010 Hungary was a young, but relatively stable democracy with...
At one moment a few months ago, the very tense relationship between Hungary and Ukraine seemed to improve slightly when the Hungarian Foreign Ministry’s State Secretary...
Hungary wants to forge a new anti-migrant alliance with Austria and Italy following recent elections in both countries which saw populist parties do well. “This...
