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The Eastring pipeline project is launched

The Editorial Board November 1, 2017

Article originally published in the Budapest Business Journal. Slovakia/Hungary/Romania/Bulgaria - Hungary and Slovakia on Monday signed a declaration of intent on the construction of the Eastring gas pipeline, a transmission route between hubs in Western Europe and the Balkan region and Turkey, according…

Politics

Hungary vetoed the NATO-Ukraine council due to the discriminatory Ukrainian educational law

The Editorial Board October 29, 2017

Hungary / Ukraine - Hungary vetoed the convening of the next NATO-Ukraine summit. This follows a disagreement between Hungary and Ukraine over the recent education reform that, according to Budapest, threatens the Hungarian community in Ukraine. In early September, Ukraine voted a reform…

Politics

The Visegrád Group intensifies its European-wide political actions

The Editorial Board October 13, 2017

Central Europe - The Visegrád Group met three times in less than a week. On Monday, October 9, in Warsaw, along with the Baltic countries, Romania and Bulgaria, on Wednesday, October 11, in Budapest, with representatives of the Western Balkans, where the…

Politics

Ukrainian new educational law: towards the end of Ukraine’s European integration?

The Editorial Board October 11, 2017

Ukraine - Early September, the Ukrainian parliament passed a reform of the education system, imposing Ukrainian as the compulsory secondary school language. Many countries oppose this reform, while Hungary appeals to the European Union and threatens to block Ukraine's rapprochement with the…

Society

The European Court ruled against Hungary and Slovakia on the migrant quotas case

The Editorial Board September 6, 2017

European Union - The Court of Justice of the European Union rejected the legal challenge by Hungary and Slovakia of mandatory relocation migrants quotas that Brussels wants to impose to all member states. The ultimate judicial authority of the European Union, the Court of…

Politics

Harassed by Western Influence Agents, Bucharest Eyes Visegrád

Modeste Schwartz September 4, 2017

Romania - In his opening speech at the Annual Meeting of the Romanian Diplomacy (held on August 29) Călin P. Tăriceanu, President of the Romanian Senate, politically perceived as the second ranking member of the ruling coalition (after L. Dragnea,…

Politics

The Visegrád Group opens to the East

Ferenc Almássy September 3, 2017

Hungary, Budapest - Expanding the European Union’s list of Eastern partner countries is of strategic importance to the Visegrád Group, Hungary’s foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking at a press conference after a meeting of V4 leaders, European Commission and Estonian…

Politics

Hungary’s Foreign Minister calls on European Commission first Vice President Timmermans to resign

The Editorial Board May 10, 2017

Article originally published on Daily News Hungary. Hungary, Budapest – Hungary’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Péter Szijjártó, has called on European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans to resign in light of his accusation of anti-Semitism made against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his…

Politics

Asselborn’s remarks dismissed by Hungary and Austria

The Editorial Board September 15, 2016

Hungary - After Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Asselborn asked for Hungary's expulsion of the European Union, the Hungarian Foreign Minister dismissed his remarks by saying that his counterpart Jean Asselborn is a "lightweight" politician "bent to destroy Europe's security and culture". And the…

Society

Samsung invest 322M in Hungary and create new jobs

The Editorial Board September 1, 2016

Hungary, Budapest - Samsung is going to invest EUR 322M in a plant that will produce batteries for electric vehicles. It has been announced on Tuesday the 30 by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó. There was a fierce…

Politics

The unstoppable ascension of the V4

The Editorial Board August 30, 2016

Hungary, Budapest - The Foreign Affairs Ministers of the V4 (Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Slovakia) met in Budapest on August 29. According to the Hungarian host, Péter Szijjártó, the V4 is strong enough to tell out loud the truth not caring about political…

Politics

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov in Budapest: the relation between Hungary and Russia is good and pragmatical

The Editorial Board May 27, 2016

Hungary, Budapest - The Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov visited Budapest on May 25. He met with the Hungarian Premier Viktor Orbán and the Foreign Affairs and External Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó. The talks were about partnership, Minsk agreements, European sanctions, energy, migration…