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    • PM Orbán on the EU budget: An ambitious Europe needs an ambitious budget

    “Right now, we are very far from coming to an agreement. There are two positions. We will continue negotiations sometime in the future,” PM Orbán said following the two-day European Council summit in Brussels on the EU’s upcoming seven-year budget.

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    A tale of “independent journalism”

    Independent, investigative journalism helps uncover stories and connections that would otherwise remain hidden from the public eye. It’s a good thing and should be promoted, except when it’s politically driven, biased and one-sided.

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    PM Orbán in State of the Nation address: The last decade has been the most successful in Hungary’s last 100 years

    Here are some highlights from the prime minister’s speech

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    PM Orbán warns of growing migration pressure at Hungary’s southern border

    Visiting Hungary’s southern border fence alongside Slovak PM Peter Pellegrini earlier today, Prime Minister Orbán said that with spring weather right around the corner, migrants are expected to arrive in even larger masses and in a more organized manner.

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    FM Szijjártó in Vienna on nuclear energy, migration and terrorism

    Speaking at an IAEA conference and counter-terrorism summit earlier this week, Foreign Minister Szijjártó made Hungary’s voice heard on some of the hard-hitting issues affecting the country today.

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    Commissioner Várhelyi on EU enlargement: We need to speed up accession for the Western Balkans

    Várhelyi: In order to maintain its credibility, the EU must “speed up” accession for the Western Balkans and “make it more dynamic.”

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    PM Orbán in Prague: We are Europe’s future

    Nov 17, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

    “The cooperation of Central European countries is engraved in the hearts of Central European people,” Prime Minister Orbán said earlier today in Prague, adding that the upcoming years will be all about the success of Central Europe and the Visegrád Four. A few highlights from the PM’s speech honoring the 30th anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s Velvet Revolution, a peaceful transition of power that marked the end of the communist era.

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    Frontex prepares for everything but border protection

    Nov 21, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács

    “These people aren’t involved in border protection,” said Prime Minister Orbán of the newly established Frontex unit proposed to the management board. Frontex, of course, is the EU agency that was set up to manage cooperation among national border guards and help secure the EU’s external border. The problem with the proposed, new unit is that it is for anything but guarding European borders and coastlines. Plus, it is ridiculously weak in numbers.

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    PM Orbán Demands Democratic EU, Exposes Soros-Clinton Ties and Political Agenda

    May 20, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács

    While elites will inevitably maneuver to shape politics in a democracy, it is up to the people to decide on a country’s direction, Prime Minister Orbán emphasized in his regular radio interview this morning. Every thirty years or so, Hungary finds itself in the spotlight on the stage of international politics, he said, but people should not allow themselves to be deterred by the blinding spotlights.

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    Hungary and UAE Agree on How to Best Solve Migration Crisis

    Mar 01, 2016

    Péter Szijjártó and the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates agreed that migration pressure on Europe and the migration crisis will not come to an end until peace is established in Syria, the fight against terrorism is successfully won and the European Union ends its policy of keeping its external borders open, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade told Hungarian news agency MTI on the first day of his trip to the Emirates.

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