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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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    Blog Prime Minister

    PM Orbán on the new European Commission: The V4 countries have won vital portfolios

    Sep 13, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

    Two of the vice-presidents on the new European Commission will come from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while the Polish commissioner will oversee Agriculture. “The whole region, with the V4 at the helm, is seeing an on-going increase in appreciation,” Prime Minister Orbán said in a radio interview this morning, before talking about enlargement, the European way of life, foreign policy goals and family policy.

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    PM Orbán: Take migration and border protection away from the Commission, give them back to the national governments

    Mar 23, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

    Drawing on the remarks of other prominent political figures at this weekend’s Budapest Summit on Migration, including former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán concluded that migration and border protection competences should be returned to the EU’s member states and delegated to an independent council comprised of EU interior ministers.

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    You have the right to know: Brussels and the never-ending story of the migrant quota

    Feb 27, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

    On Monday, the European Commission issued a response to the government’s communication to Hungarian citizens that “everyone has a right to know what Brussels is planning.” The Commission response was published online in Hungarian as “Facts about the EU’s migration policy” and features an illustration (again in Hungarian) that says “You also have a right to know what is fact and what is fiction.”

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    Just how long have the pro-migration forces in Brussels been scheming about a migrant quota?

    Jan 14, 2019 - Zoltán Kovács

    Some claim that the notion of a pro-migration lobby is nonsense, that Brussels came up with the migrant quota for the sake of Member States and in response to the crisis that erupted in 2015. This idea that there are forces at work in the background driving an agenda to enable migration to Europe rather than stop it – this idea, some say, is the stuff of conspiracy theories. If you’re one of those who still believe it’s nonsense, let me show you something interesting.

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    Commissioner Avramopoulos speaking on migration doesn’t represent the whole of Europe

    Oct 01, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    Last week at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, the European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos, an unelected public servant who is charged with representing our common EU standpoint, presented his own views as if they were the common, European policy. That’s a problem. “This man is our employee,” said Prime Minister Orbán. “It is his duty to represent us.”

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    Frans Timmermans must respect the dignity of Holocaust victims

    May 10, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

    Political debates can get nasty. A certain amount of give-and-take comes with the territory, and as a spokesperson, I’ve experienced it firsthand. There are red lines that should not be crossed, though, and assailing the dignity of the victims of mass genocide crosses the brightest of them. Every reasonable person, including European Commission Vice President Timmermans, should know that no matter how deep the political disagreement, Holocaust victims should not be exploited as weapons in such a fight.

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    Will Brussels Ever Wake Up?

    May 12, 2016 - Zoltán Kovács

    Jaws dropped across the European Union last week as the Eurocrats revealed their latest proposal. Whether it was in the way they dehumanized refugees by putting price tags on their heads or accused elected prime ministers of being undemocratic, the tendentious actions of the Eurocrats seem to be deliberately intended to alienate friends and supporters of the European idea. With the Brexit referendum just around the corner, Eurocrats would do well to exercise more restraint.

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    News in Brief

    Every country has the right to decide on its own energy mix, says government commissioner on Paks

    Apr 19, 2016

    As the project to enlarge the Paks atomic power station continues, Hungary is acting in harmony with the EU’s energy policy considering that the European Commission itself is monitoring the maintenance of nuclear production capacity in the future, the government commissioner responsible for maintaining the capacity of the Paks atomic power station told the Hungarian News Agency MTI on Monday.

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