Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told parliament on Monday that “Hungary’s enemies”, which he described as “the Soros empire, Brussels bureaucrats and American democrats”, were ready to make concerted demands in the autumn aimed at resurrecting the period in which Ferenc Gyurcsany, the one-time Socialist prime minister, governed. “We can’t accept this; we don’t want to go back where they want to lead us, to the Gyurcsany era,” he said in an address to parliament.
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The upgrade of the Paks nuclear power plant, a key investment to guaranteeing Hungary's energy security, environmental protection and competitiveness, is progressing on schedule, the minister of foreign affairs and trade said in Vienna on Monday.
The Game wins best film at Parma Film Festival
Peter Fazakas's The Game (A jatszma) was awarded the Violetta d'Argento prize at this year's Parma Film Festival, the National Film Institute said on Monday.
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LMP will offer a "third-way alternative" in Hungarian politics, one that is markedly different from the policies of either the government or the other opposition parties, the deputy leader of the party said ahead of the opening of parliament's autumn session on Monday.
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The Hungarian government supports ethnic Hungarians in Transcarpathia, including "promotion of their fundamental rights and restoring their rights to use the (Hungarian) language," Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Hungarian Prime Minister's Office, said at a ceremony opening the new academic year at the ...
Government contributes to church renovation in Transylvania
Five historic churches in the Alba Iulia (Gyulafehervar) region, in central Romania, refurbished with financing from the Hungarian government, were inaugurated on Sunday.
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Hungary does not support the new migration and refugee package presented by the European Commission on Wednesday, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told Reuters newswire on Friday. Under the package, Hungary's commitment to send people back from the southern EU states like Italy or Greece, ...
