Szijjarto urges permanent OSCE presence in Transcarpathia

Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has urged that the Organisation of Security and Cooperation in Europe special Ukraine mission should set up a permanent presence in Transcarpathia, where ethnic Hungarians are often become physically threatened and "supporting indigenous minorities is not a priority for the ...

Fidesz MEP slams EC for rejecting ethnic minority initiative

A Fidesz MEP on Monday lambasted the European Commission for rejecting the Minority SafePack citizen's initiative that urged European Union protection for indigenous national minorities in the bloc, saying that the EC was "leaving traditional ethnic minorities behind again" despite nearly 1.5 million Europeans ...

Thirtieth anniversary of freedom for Lithuania

Deadly day of protest remembered

Although each January 13 is a day of celebration in Lithuania, it is also a day of sorrow and remembrance for those who fell on that date in 1991 while seeking independence for their country. Thirty years later in Budapest, Ambassador to Hungary Vytautas ...

Central Europe will never surrender its Christian values, national culture and our belief in the traditional family model, PM says

Orbán responds to Manfred Weber

In a response to criticisms by European People's Party group leader Manfred Weber, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has defended the record of his government over the past ten years.

Hungary, Estonia cooperate closely on EU future

The foreign ministers of Hungary and Estonia are cooperating closely on matters fundamentally defining the European Union's future, among them the fight against illegal migration, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Sunday.

EPP group condemns Deutsch’s remarks

Deputies of the European People's Party (EPP) in the European Parliament have strongly condemned critical statements made by Tamas Deutsch, an MEP of Hungary's ruling Fidesz, about the group and its leader, but have not expelled him from their ranks, under a decision adopted ...