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Palkovics in hydrogen talks with Timmermans
László Palkovics, Minister of Innovation and Technology, said Hungary will be among the first countries to join the hydrogen coalition planned by the European Commission.
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MEP: Soros pulling left-wing mayor candidate strings to move migrants into Hungary
Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch said Frans Timmermans wants pro-migration mayors to move migrants into Europe and plans the same for Hungary.
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State Secretary: V4 solidarity has rejected Timmermans as EC President
“We need someone who brings the member states of Europe together into a union, not one who divides them,” Zoltán Kovács said.
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PM Orbán: Frans Timmermans could be rejected solely because he is “George Soros’s man”
The Prime Minister said the main reason for the Visegrad countries not supporting Timmermans is because “he is a fighter of ideologies and he is against anyone who has a...
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Smoky backroom deals in Berlin, Paris and Brussels
It was supposed to be a thing of the past. So-called powerbrokers, self-appointed and unaccountable, conspiring furtively by telephone and in secret meetings to cut deals to dole out positions of power with a cynical disregard for the will of the voters.
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State Secretary: Frans Timmermans is George Soros's man
Zoltán Kovács said the Hungarian government would do everything it could to prevent such an outcome.
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PM Orbán: EPP would be making “historic mistake” in helping Frans Timmermans become EC president
The Hungarian government would regard the appointment of Frans Timmermans as European Commission president “unacceptable”, a government official said, adding the reason why was that the candidate was backed by the Social Democrats and George Soros.
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V4 countries won’t support Weber or Timmermans
Citizens of the V4 countries feel equally skeptical about EPP candidate Manfred Weber and the socialist Frans Timmermans, reveals a recently-conducted survey by the Nezopont Institute.
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Hungary not supporting Weber or Timmermans, says spokesman
Zoltán Kovács said Weber had repeatedly offended Hungarians over the past few months while Timmermans “has been in effect lying non-stop” about Hungary during the EP election campaign.
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FM: Frans Timmermans must take responsibility for the migrant crisis
“First Vice-President of the European Commission (EC) Frans Timmermans must take responsibility for the fact that over one and a half million illegal immigrants have come to Europe,” the Foreign Minister said
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Left-wingers are teaming up with the Jobbik party that was not long ago branded “Nazi”
Frans Timmermans had not raised any objection in connection with the proposal of the Hungarian Socialist Party’s leader to set up a joint list with Jobbik for the upcoming EP elections
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Links between the “Soros network” and the European Commission are obvious, says state secretary
Szabolcs Takács said in Brussels on Tuesday that the links are obvious due to the EC’s immediate attack against an information campaign by Hungary’s government
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With his visit this weekend to Budapest, Commissioner Timmermans is giving his seal of approval to the Left’s alliance with the extremist, far-right
Commissioner Frans Timmermans comes to Budapest this weekend to attend the annual congress of the Hungarian Socialists, a party that has recently cozied up with far-right, anti-Semitic Jobbik.