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Poland and Hungary defying EU boycott of Iran

The Editorial Board February 19, 2023

Hungary/Poland – As The Times of Israel noted on 14 February, unlike other EU ambassadors, Zoltán Varga-Haszonits and Maciej Fałkowski, the ambassadors of Hungary and Poland respectively, chose not to boycott the ceremonies celebrating the 44th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic…

News

Strengthening economic cooperation between Hungary and Iran

The Editorial Board November 23, 2022

Hungary/Iran – On 17 November in Budapest, Hungarian Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó received Iran’s Minister of Economy and Finance, Seyed Ehsan Khandouzi, on the occasion of the second meeting of the Hungarian–Iranian Joint Economic Committee. The two ministers…

Politics

“PM Orbán: 2019 was about elections; the next two years will be about governing”

The Editorial Board January 10, 2020

By Zoltán Kovács. Article originally published on About Hungary, the blog of the International Communications Office of the Cabinet Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary. Hungary - It was a no-holds barred, nearly three-hour-long, press conference with more than one…

Society

Hungary is ready to take in an Iranian Christian refugee facing deportation from Sweden

Nicolas de Lamberterie August 9, 2017

By Nicolas de Lamberterie. Hungary - Aideen Strandsson is an Iranian actress. She secretly converted to Christianity, before publicly announcing it when she arrived in Sweden with a three-year work visa: she was publicly baptized and took a Swedish surname. Today, due…

Interviews

Amer Albayati: “The Socialists and the Greens support the Islamists in order to get more votes.”

Ferenc Almássy July 24, 2017

Austria - Interview with Amer Albayati, liberal Austrian Muslim living in Vienna: "The Socialists and the Greens even support the Islamists in order to get more votes." Ferenc Almássy met Dr. Amer Albayati in Vienna in May, and got the last…

Politics

Putin reacts to US missile bases in Poland and Romania

The Editorial Board May 30, 2016

Greece, Athens - Russian President Putin was in Greece last week and said that Romania and soon Poland will be in the cross-hairs of Russia, due to the hosted U.S. missile defense shield newly based in these two countries, which is seen…