HIA sends container baths to earthquake victims
The Hungarian Interchurch Aid (HIA) has sent 9 containers with washing facilities and lavatories to Iskenderun, in southwest Turkiye, to a refuge for victims of the earthquakes in the region in February this year which killed nearly 60,000 in Turkiye and Syria.
Speaker: Migrant quotas aimed to ‘weaken EU, create chaos’
The European Union's proposed mandatory migrant quotas are "in fact designed to weaken the European Union and create chaos", Laszlo Kover, speaker of the Hungarian parliament, said at the opening forum of a summer university course in Martovce (Martos), in southern Slovakia, on Wednesday.
Government not to approve EU funding until OTP Bank is removed from Ukraine blacklist
Hungary's government will not approve any more European Union funding for arms deliveries to Ukraine until Kyiv removes OTP Bank from its list of international war sponsors, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday.
Szijjarto: France developments indicating ‘failure of Western European integration’
Recent developments in France "clearly indicate the failure of efforts aimed at social integration in western Europe," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told lawmakers on Tuesday.
Szijjarto: Terminating ties with China ‘would be suicide’
Terminating relations with China "would be a suicide committed by the European economy," Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in a video published on Facebook on Saturday.
EU summit – Official: Hungary rejects the migration pact, budget proposal ‘shocking’
The European Commission's proposal for a new migration and asylum pact which envisages forcing member states to distribute possibly tens of thousands of migrants among themselves is "unacceptable", the prime minister's political director Balazs Orbán said in Brussels on Thursday.
Orbán demands answers on responsibility for EU’s ‘slide to brink of bankruptcy’
Hungary wants to know who is responsible for the European Union having been "pushed to the brink of bankruptcy", Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in Brussels on Thursday.
Justice Minister: Europe’s future depends on control over EU institutions
Europe's future depends on increasing democratic control over institutions of the European Union, Judit Varga, the justice minister, told a conference on Thursday.
Nacsa: Enlargement ‘in EU’s fundamental interest’
The European Union's security, economic and political interests firmly hinge on integrating countries of the Western Balkans, a governing lawmaker told a European Parliament committee, arguing that enlargement would make the EU stronger, while each month of delay would enfeeble the bloc.
Szijjarto: Cutting Europe-China ties would be ‘brutal economic suicide’
Cutting Europe-China ties would equal Europe's "brutal economic suicide", Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Tuesday, insisting that the bloc's competitiveness had "plummeted in recent years for numerous reasons".
