Orbán: Focus of EU growth shifting to central Europe
The value of central Europe is on the rise, with the focus of growth in the European Union shifting to the east, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the cornerstone-laying ceremony for the Cirkovce-Pince power line in eastern Slovenia on Wednesday.
Sscandals raises questions regarding the EC's sources of information, Deutsch says
Fidesz MEP queries Jourova on ties with Hungarian opposition
Tamas Deutsch, an MEP of ruling Fidesz, has sent a letter to European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova, asking her about her ties to Anna Donath, an MEP of the opposition Momentum movement.
Kover: Rule of law issue, recovery package talks should be kept separate
The debate around the rule of law and the European Union's next seven-year budget and post-pandemic recovery package should be kept separate, Speaker of Parliament Laszlo Kover said after talks with his Polish counterpart in Wroclaw on Wednesday.
1956 anniversary to be marked with only two state events
In light of the coronavirus pandemic, only two state events will be held this year to commemorate Hungary's 1956 uprising against Soviet rule, Zoltan Kovacs, the state secretary for international communications, said on Wednesday.
WHO has expressed satisfaction with Hungary's purchase of the necessary protective equipment, minister says
Szijjarto: WHO satisfied with Hungary’s handling of pandemic
It is clear that the World Health Organisation (WHO) appreciates the measures the Hungarian government has taken so far to combat the coronavirus pandemic and is satisfied with the way the country handled the first wave, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after talks with ...
Drama, film theatre leadership to consider university ‘student republic’ terminated
The new leadership of Budapest's University of Theatre and Film Arts (SZFE) issued a statement on Tuesday, saying that they henceforth considered the "student republic", an alternative educational model established by striking teachers and students within the university walls, to be "terminated with immediate ...
Employers’ association rejects municipal council’s new tax proposal to reboot economy
National employer federation MGYOSZ on Tuesday rejected a proposal by the Budapest municipal council to increase the business tax in an effort to help reboot the economy.
First Hungarian patients receive domestically produced Remdesivir
The first few Hungarian patients have received doses of the domestically manufactured Covid-19 drug Remdesivir at the clinic of Debrecen University, the university's press office said on Tuesday.
US ambassador addresses conference on CE Europe
Freedom of religion and speech are genetically ingrained for Americans, US Ambassador David B. Cornstein told an international conference in Budapest focusing on central and eastern Europe and religion on Tuesday.
Szijjarto: "This is an act of revenge against us for blocking the EU's unified position in support of the UN's global migration compact"
EU proposal to scrap unanimity requirement for foreign policy decisions ‘dangerous’, minister says
A new European Union proposal under which the bloc's foreign policy decisions would no longer require unanimous support from member states is "dangerous" from Hungary's perspective and "completely goes against" the EU treaties, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after meeting his EU counterparts in ...
