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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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    National Consultation

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    Here’s why family policy is important and how this national consultation seeks to make a difference

    Nov 23, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    Europe’s demographic decline comes as no surprise to anyone even superficially acquainted with current birthrates around the continent. Although some in western Europe have already decided that immigration offers the only way to make up for the loss, the Orbán Government pursues another solution -- make it easier for the nation’s own citizens to have bigger families – and in this national consultation, we’re asking citizens for their input on how to do that.

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    National consultation on family policy to kick off soon

    Oct 31, 2018 - Zoltán Kovács

    National consultation has become a powerful tool in recent years to invite citizen participation in major decision-making processes between election cycles. Since 2010, the government has solicited citizen input on a number of high-profile policy choices including the new Fundamental Law, economic issues, social security, conditions affecting pensioners, and immigration. This time it’s about family protection and it gets underway in just a few days.

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    The Soros media blitz to convince the world there is no such thing as a Soros plan

    Nov 23, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

    As I wrote last week, the European Parliament approved a regulation that would introduce a permanent and mandatory migrant quota system without an upper limit on the number of migrants to be admitted. What’s more, it says that the evaluation of asylum claims will no longer be carried out by the country of first entry, and all member states will have to accommodate migrants on an involuntary basis. Countries that don’t cooperate would be politically and financially penalized.

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    News in Brief

    Here's the questionnare that allows the people to have their say on the Soros Plan

    Sep 29, 2017

    On Wednesday, the government published the national consultation on the Soros plan, one of a series of national consultations in which the government turns to the people in the form of public surveys to ask their opinion on subjects important to their daily lives. This seventh national consultation addresses the Soros Plan to resettle one million migrants in Europe per year. The following is an English-language translation of the questionnaire.

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    Letting the people have their say on the Soros Plan

    Sep 28, 2017 - Zoltán Kovács

    On Wednesday, the government published the national consultation on the Soros plan, one of a series of national consultations in which the government turns to the people in the form of public surveys to ask their opinion on subjects important to their daily lives. This seventh national consultation addresses the Soros Plan to resettle one million migrants in Europe per year. The consultation’s fundamental question is: should Hungary become an immigrant country or not?

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