Hungary

The Patriots for Europe group supports a European Union budget that would serve peace, stemming illegal migration, "the interests of European people, families, and nations, as well as sovereignty," Hungary's ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat MEPs said in a statement on Thursday.

The state of Hungary could acquire Austrian construction company Strabag's stake in GySEV, giving it a majority holding in the regional railway company, Construction and Transportation Minister Janos Lazar said in a post on social media on Thursday.

The title of European Capital of Culture, which the town of Veszprem and the Lake Balaton region held last year, presented a good opportunity to "reposition" the region, the regional development minister told an international conference assessing the experiences of the programme and the ...

National Economy Minister Marton Nagy said Brussels had sided with "price-gouging", "profit-hungry" multinationals, instead of standing with families, commenting on a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday.

The European Union is employing double standards when it allows Germany and France to close their borders but punishes Hungary for protecting the bloc's external borders, a state secretary of the interior ministry told public television on Thursday.

European competitiveness is in steep decline and will irreversibly fall behind that of the US and China unless the bloc is ready to take decisive action, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Thursday, after talks with Luc Frieden, his Luxembourgian counterpart, in Budapest.

The Hungarian government will request that the European Union compensate the country for costs incurred in protecting the bloc's external borders, and is ready to sue the EU to that end, Gergely Gulyas, the head of the Prime Minister's Office, told a regular press ...

Peter Magyar, the head and MEP of the opposition Tisza Party, demands the observation of migration rules set by Brussels which make illegal migration legal, the communications director of ruling Fidesz said in a video posted on social media on Thursday.

Hungary is doing its fair share in the stabilisation and development of the Western Balkans region as part of a responsible neighbourhood policy, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in Budapest on Thursday.

A competitive European Union is impossible to bring about without competitive member states, the minister for EU affairs told an international press seminar on Tuesday, where he talked about the main goals of Hungary's EU Council presidency and EU policy making.