Public is entitled to be fully informed about the delivery schedule, minister says

Gulyas requests publication of EU vaccine contracts

Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, asked European Commissioner Stella Kyriakides in a letter on Friday to facilitate publication of the European Union's agreements with coronavirus vaccine producers and the timeframe of vaccine shipments.

Hungary to cooperate with Israeli firm on test kit production

Orbán: Effective governance ‘key to success’ in fight against pandemic

Effective governance is key to fighting the coronavirus pandemic successfully, Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Jerusalem on Thursday. Orbán met his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis in King David Hotel to focus on efforts to halt the ...

Hungary MEPs divided in EP debate on alleged media interference

Hungarian MEPs were divided in their views on the state of media freedom in Hungary in a European Parliamentary debate on Wednesday, with ruling Fidesz slamming what it calls a "smear campaign" against the government, and the opposition decrying "the end of media plurality" ...

Szijjarto: Brussels ‘ineffective’ against illegal migration, drug abuse

Illegal migration and increasing drug consumption are two serious global security challenges linked to organised crime, and the European Union's measures are "not effective enough", the Hungarian foreign minister said in Kyoto, where he attended the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal ...

Gulyas: Quitting EPP ‘just a technical issue’

Fidesz will continue to represent traditional Christian democratic, conservative, family values having quit the European People's Party, the prime minister's chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, told MTI after talking to Markus Soder, leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and the province's prime ...

Fidesz' task now is to help build a new European democratic right wing, PM says

Orbán slams EPP’s ‘power games’ as Europe grapples with pandemic

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a "samizdat" letter published on his website on Thursday, slammed the European People's Party for "indulging itself in power games" while the rest of Europe fights "a life-and-death battle" against the coronavirus pandemic.