According to the new American Ambassador, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a “strong and wonderful leader”. Speaking to Hungarian channel RTL Klub, David Cornstein explained the importance of the Central European University (CEU) too. Continue reading “US Ambassador praises Orban”
Relations between the United States and Hungary “have not been how they should have” recently, David B. Cornstein, the United States’ ambassador to Hungary, said in Debrecen, in eastern Hungary, on Wednesday. Continue reading “US ambassador: US-Hungary relations have changed”
The Hungarian MFA’s confidential evaluation of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s visit to Germany is ready, revealing some topics from Orban’s and Angela Merkel’s meetings that haven’t been discussed in public, according to Hungarian daily Nepszava‘s sources. Continue reading “Orban dictated to Merkel – press”
It is not a stretch to say that bilateral relations between Hungary and the United States could be expected to undergo a genuine revival in the coming period, the foreign minister said on Tuesday, marking Fourth of July, in Budapest. Days before, the new US ambassador paid his first visit the Central European University – but what does this mean? Continue reading ““America first, regardless of Soros””
Once the stricter Stop Soros law has been passed, the organisation of illegal immigration will be written into the criminal code, head of the prime minister’s office Gergely Gulyas said on Thursday. Continue reading “Gulyas: Organising illegal migration to be punished under criminal code”
“Faced with an increasingly repressive political and legal environment in Hungary,” the Open Society Foundations (OSF) are moving their Budapest-based international operations and staff to Berlin, the foundation wrote in its statement on Tuesday. Continue reading “Soros foundation leaves Budapest”
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday he was ready to discuss the new funding mechanism outlined in the European Commission’s recent budget proposal for 2021-2027. Continue reading “Orban ready to discuss proposed EU funding mechanism”
Rector of the Central European University, Michael Ignatieff told Reuters that the university founded by George Soros continues to operate in Budapest despite the higher education law that concerns CEU and the “Stop Soros” NGO transparency law. Continue reading “CEU wants to stay in Budapest”
Hungarian pro-government weekly Figyelo published Thursday the names of more than 200 people, who are – according to the newspaper – the “mercenaries” of U.S.-Hungarian billionaire George Soros and want to topple Viktor Orban’s government. Continue reading “Scandal: Weekly publishes list of “Soros mercenaries””
The Hungarian government is convinced that “migration is a bad and dangerous trend” and will never agree with those who “encourage and organise” it, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said in defence of Hungary’s report on migration at the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva on Tuesday. Continue reading “Szijjarto: Migration is no human righ”
