
Czech PM to visit Hungary on Friday
Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis will pay a visit to Budapest on Friday for talks on handling the coronavirus epidemic and the vaccination campaign, the Hungarian prime minister's press chief has said, confirming Czech press reports.

Tenth round of India-Hungary Foreign Office consultations
Discussions focused on political, trade and economic, science and technology, educational and cultural relations when the tenth round of India-Hungary Foreign Office Consultations was held on January 19, 2021 in Budapest.

Hungary, Poland continue to oppose migrant settlement quotas
Hungary and Poland continue to oppose "EU-sponsored migrant settlement quotas" because they believe repeated waves of migration pose a health risk in Europe, Peter Szijjarto, Hungary's foreign minister, said in Warsaw on Thursday.

Szijjarto: ‘Extreme elements’ must be cut from Hungary-Ukraine ties
"Extreme elements and manifestations" must be eliminated from Hungarian-Ukrainian relations, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Kiev on Wednesday.

Budapest exhibition marks Visegrad Group 30th anniversary
A poster exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of the Visegrad Group has opened in the Polish Cultural Institute in Budapest, the institute said on Wednesday.

Varga asks Portugal to be open to the different approaches of nation states to migration
Justice minister: Hungary expects Portuguese EU presidency to act as mediators
Hungary expects the Portuguese presidency of the European Union to act as "fair mediators, to execute the financial agreement, and not to give in [to] the trickers of the rule of law mechanism", Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Facebook.

Orbán congratulates incoming President
Opposition: Biden presidency ‘end to populism’
The opposition Socialist and Democratic Coalition (DK) parties see the presidency of Joe Biden, starting on Wednesday, as one putting an end to populist policy making in the United States.
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".