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The Problems Surrounding Hungary’s “Slavery Law”: Fake News?

Modeste Schwartz December 14, 2018

Hungary - The Hungarian parliament adopted on Wednesday, December 12, 2018, an amendment to the labor law, including the increase of the number of legal overtime hours per year from 250 to 400 maximum (a misleading broad range used by the opposition,…

Politics

Orbán forces George Soros’ CEU to stop issuing US diplomas in Hungary

The Editorial Board December 4, 2018

Hungary - The Central European University, founded on the initiative of George Soros, will no longer be permitted to issue American diplomas in Hungary. A new victory for the illiberal Viktor Orbán, while the liberal opposition is anxious. In a frontal opposition…

Politics

Viktor Orbán confronts Globalism and Brussels in view of Upcoming European Parliament Elections – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board October 24, 2018

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s speech on the 62 nd anniversary of the 1956 Revolution and Freedom Fight Budapest, 23 October 2018 Fellow Celebrants, Ladies and Gentlemen, According to one of the laws of mathematics, if…

Culture

The Hungarian Uprising of October ’56

Miklós Dorsch October 22, 2018

Hungary - October 23, 1956, is a date that will forever be engraved in the history of Hungary and of the world. On this day, communism faltered in the Eastern Bloc: the Hungarians took to the streets for their freedom. Some have paid it…

Society

Hungary: Revision of the Assembly Right

Yann Caspar October 8, 2018

Hungary - While the opposition calls it a scandal and a freedom-destroying disposition, the new law on the right of assembly is in fact only a measure to fill the gaps in the legal arsenal in force since 1989 in this area. The…

Politics

Viktor Orbán denounces the Blackmail of the EU – FULL SPEECH

The Editorial Board September 11, 2018

Strasbourg, France - Hungarian Conservative Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was on Tuesday, September 11, 2018 at the European Parliament in Strasbourg to take part in the debates on the Sargentini report - named after its main editor Judith Sargentini, MEP for the…

Politics

“The Parisian threat to suspend the subventions endangers the unity of the EU,” said the Hungarian Foreign Minister

The Editorial Board September 2, 2018

“This is blackmail. We are sick of it”. Hungary – In an interview given to Die Presse, the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó attacked his French counterpart Jean-Yves Le Drian, rejected the accusations about the so called “lack of solidarity”…

Politics

The Visegrád Group and Austria Interior Ministers met in Budapest – strengthening of the regional cooperation on migration

The Editorial Board June 28, 2018

Article originally published on The Hungary Journal. Hungary - Interior ministers of the four Visegrad countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia – and their Austrian counterpart met for talks in Budapest on Tuesday. After the talks, Hungary’s Sandor Pinter called…

Politics

Visegrád – Austria Summit: Confirmed Entente

The Editorial Board June 22, 2018

The Visegrád Group and Austria met in Budapest for a summit on immigration therefore bypassing and declaring their boycott of the planned "mini-summit" on the subject. Hungary - On Thursday, 21 June, Budapest hosted a summit of the Visegrád Group (Poland, Czechia,…

Politics

Viktor Orbán’s full speech for the beginning of his fourth mandate

The Editorial Board May 12, 2018

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s address after swearing the prime-ministerial oath of office Budapest, 10 May 2018 Honourable President of the Republic, Honourable Speaker, Fellow Members of Parliament, My…

Politics

George Soros’ foundation is leaving Budapest

The Editorial Board April 19, 2018

Hungary - According to the leading Austrian newspaper Die Presse, Patrick Gaspard, President of the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which was created and is led by George Soros, said the OSF would leave Budapest to move to Berlin. The information has been confirmed…

Politics

Landslide victory for Viktor Orbán

The Editorial Board April 9, 2018

Hungary - On Sunday, April 8, Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz-KDNP coalition won the general elections and reached a constitutional two-thirds majority in parliament. Viktor Orbán begins his third consecutive term, which will last until 2022. After a long, heavy and very…