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Have Hungarian opponents been spied on with Israeli software?

The Editorial Board July 20, 2021

Hungary – The Hungarian news site Direkt36 revealed on Monday morning that an international journalistic investigation involving 17 left-wing newspapers (including The Washington Post, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Die Zeit, and Le Monde) had allegedly uncovered evidence that the Hungarian authorities had been…

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“LGBT Rights”: European Commission launches proceedings against Hungary and Poland

The Editorial Board July 18, 2021

Hungary/Poland – Many political observers expected that the latent conflict between the two Central European countries and EU institutions over “European values” – recently called “imaginary values” by Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša – would eventually lead to the European Commission launching new infringement…

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Slovakia: Constitutional Court overturns quarantine for non-vaccinated people

The Editorial Board July 15, 2021

Slovakia – Facing the prospect of the spread of the Delta coronavirus variant – 35 cases had been detected in the country as of July 13, compared with 14 as of July 8 – Slovakia, which is one of the European countries that…

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Hungarian emigrants increasingly returning home

The Editorial Board July 15, 2021

Hungary – On 11 July, Fidesz deputy chairman and MP Gábor Kubatov expressed his delight that, for two years in a row, the number of Hungarians returning to their country had surpassed the number of departures. This is a very positive trend for…

Politics

Press statement by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán after a meeting between the prime ministers of the Visegrád Four and Slovenia

The Editorial Board July 15, 2021

9 July 2021, Ljubljana First of all, I’d like to thank the Prime Minister of Slovenia for inviting us. The cooperation of Central European countries is not a matter of theory, but of practical reality. As the Prime Minister himself said, during…

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Hungarian Fidesz and Austrian FPÖ coming closer together

The Editorial Board July 9, 2021

Hungary/Austria – After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sent him a letter congratulating him on his election as leader of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) on 19 June, with the support of 88.24% of the delegates at an extraordinary congress, the…

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Slovenian PM Janez Janša denounces Brussels’ “imaginary values”

The Editorial Board July 8, 2021

Slovenia/European Union– As we recently reported, Slovenia’s presidency of the European Union, which we predicted would be stormy and marred by conflict, is indeed off to a flying start, and the EU’s leaders in Brussels have not been mistaken in seeing in Slovenian Prime Minister…

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Vaccines: Harsh criticism from Slovakia’s ex-Prime Minister

The Editorial Board June 27, 2021

Slovakia – Following appeals made by Zuzana Čaputová, Slovakian President, and Vladimír Lengvarský, Slovakian health minister, to the three former prime ministers of their country, the leader of Smer DF (populist social-democrats) Robert Fico, head of the government from 2012 to 2018,…

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ECJ reminded of the limits of its powers by Romanian Constitutional Court

The Editorial Board June 25, 2021

The European Court of Justice assumes the role of supreme judge in areas where the signatory states of the European treaties have not ceded their sovereignty. Romania/European Union – The propensity of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to extend its prerogatives and…

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V4 Defence Ministers’ Summit in Elbląg

The Editorial Board June 24, 2021

Poland – The four defence ministers of the Visegrád Group countries – Tibor Benkő (Hungary), Mariusz Błaszczak (Poland), Jaroslav Nad (Slovakia) and Jan Havránek (Czechia) – met for a regional summit on Sunday, 20-21 June, in Gdynia (near Gdańsk), where the Polish…

Society

Anti-Paedophilia Law: EU to level sanctions against Hungary?

The Editorial Board June 23, 2021

Hungary – In light of the commotion caused by certain local authorities in Poland declaring themselves LGBT-ideology free zones, one could expect that the adoption of Hungary’s Anti-Paedophilia Law, which forbids minors to be exposed to LGBT propaganda, to provoke a certain…

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Viktor Orbán’s address at the conference entitled “Free for Thirty Years”

The Editorial Board June 21, 2021

Source : Cabinet of the Prime minister of Hungary Good morning. I greet the Speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, President Mária Schmidt, representatives of our country’s diplomatic corps, members of the Government, my old friends, and all of you who…