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PM Orbán: We can only support EU leaders who respect Central Europe

No politician should be nominated to embody Europe’s unity who has previously participated in an affront against any member state

Q&A on the Hungarian Academy of Sciences

What’s the deal with the current research funding framework? Does it really have to be reformed?

Straight out of Trump’s White House: politics, the press and the President

A guest post by Rajmund Fekete

Rumänische Menge verwüstet ungarischen Friedhof in Siebenbürgen: ein hässlicher Vorfall und auch noch illegal

Gestern Nachmittag hat ein Mob aus Rumänen einen österreichisch-ungarischen Soldatenfriedhof in Siebenbürgen gestürmt, trotz der Anwesenheit der Polizei und friedlich protestierender Ungarn.

Aus diesen Gründen nennen wir es das Budget der Familien

Durch die Erhöhung der Staatsausgaben in Schlüsselbereichen wird sich der Haushalt im nächsten Jahr auf Familien, Bevölkerungspolitik, Sicherheit und nachhaltiges Wirtschaftswachstum konzentrieren.

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News in Brief

Justice Ministry: Hungary's courts among best in Europe

Jun 14, 2019

Hungary's Justice Ministry has revealed the reasons why Hungarian courts are now being classed among Europe’s most efficient.

News in Brief

Ukrainian captain charged in river cruise tragedy bailed and must remain in Budapest

Jun 14, 2019

The captain is being investigated for reckless endangerment of river traffic and causing a mass accident.

News in Brief

PM Orbán: European political groupings are in the process of being formed

Jun 14, 2019

PM Orbán said an attempt would be made to maintain the European People’s Party as the party of Helmut Kohl. This grouping would respect nations, place primacy on Christianity and give proper weight to the interests central Europeans.

News in Brief

Direct trains from Budapest to Croatia’s Adriatic sea launch today

Jun 14, 2019

The SEA←YOU MÁV summer train service will include regular Adria and Istria express trains that go from Keleti and Déli Railway Stations directly to the Adriatic sea in Croatia.

The Spokesman's blog

PM Orbán: We can only support EU leaders who respect Central Europe

The Visegrád Group is unified in terms of both personnel- and content-related questions, PM Orbán said in his radio interview this morning, adding that he thinks it’s possible to find the right candidate for European Commission president “within one or two weeks”. In the remainder of the interview, the prime minister touched upon the relationship between Fidesz and the European People’s Party, Hungary’s priorities in the next five years, economic policy and the aftermath of the Hableány boat accident.