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PM Orbán in Moscow: Hungary values its good relations with Russia

“It is in Hungary’s national interest that cooperation between the two parts of Europe are as good as possible"

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PM Orbán: Nobody takes away our right to border protection

Hungary is neither a transit zone, nor a holding camp

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PM Orbán: “They want to take away from us the keys to the gate”

Who will protect Hungary's border then?

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FM Szijjártó: Sargentini Report adopted through voting fraud

The government is currently examining avenues for legal redress

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Hungary's FM: Government demands legal guarantees from Ukraine over Education Act

Jan 25, 2018

Hungary’s foreign minister met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Wess Mitchell and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin in Paris to discuss the Ukraine Education Act

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International pressure mounts on Ukraine's controversial education law

Dec 11, 2017

Tamás Menczer said that a statement made by the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and the preliminary report by the Venice Commission has proven that this is not just a Hungarian issue, but a European one

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Hungary's FM: Ukraine has also failed to fulfil its NATO commitments

Dec 07, 2017

Hungary's foreign minister has said that Ukraine has failed to fulfil its NATO commitments by seriously violating minority rights and adopting the new Education Act

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Blog

Helping Ukraine remain on the path toward Europe

Nov 03, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

In his blog post entitled, “Hungarian Leader Should Stop Meddling in Ukrainian Politics,” a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, Mike Gonzalez, misunderstands why Hungary has become an outspoken critic of the new Ukrainian education law that limits minority rights

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Hungary vetoes upcoming NATO-Ukraine summit

Oct 30, 2017

Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said it’s impossible to support the country’s bid to join the alliance after Ukraine passed its new education law “brutally mutilating” minority rights

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Foreign ministers from Hungary, Romania, Greece and Bulgaria join forces to fight Ukraine's new education law

Sep 15, 2017

Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, stands firmly behind calls to scrap Ukraine's new education law which is the latest international protestation to the law

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37 MEPs sign letter calling for Ukraine's president to scrap new education law impacting minorities

Sep 15, 2017

Fidesz-KDNP MEP Andrea Bocskor drafted the open letter to the Ukrainian president which was signed by 37 MEPs from Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland and Slovakia

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Hungary's foreign minister summons ambassador of Ukraine over country's “shameful and disgraceful” education law amendment impacting minorities

Sep 11, 2017

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