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 ...

Fidesz MEP slams EC rejection of Minority SafePack initiative
A Fidesz MEP on Friday slammed the European Commission's rejection of Minority SafePack, a citizens' initiative urging European Union protection for indigenous national minorities in the bloc, as "unacceptable and outrageous".

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 ...

Szijjarto: Europe ‘should be grateful’ to Salvini
"The whole of Europe should be grateful" to Matteo Salvini, former interior minister of Italy, for "saving his homeland and saving Europe," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Facebook on Saturday.
British ambassador sends video message
Applications open for UK citizens to seek Hungarian residency
British Ambassador to Hungary Paul Fox has a fresh video message on the steps that UK nationals need to take to sort out their residency status in Hungary.
Orbán: EU ban on kosher slaughter ‘assault on the freedom of religion’
The European Court of Justice's December ruling concerning a ban on Kosher slaughter is an "assault on the freedom of religion", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a letter sent to Isaac Herzog, head of the Jewish Agency for Israel, the head of the ...

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 ...