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    • CORONAVIRUS: Here's the latest

    A regularly updated feed of the latest information about coronavirus in Hungary.

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    Stop the whitewashing already!

    This latest piece of German, liberal propaganda, courtesy of FAZ, promises to discuss far-right, anti-Semitic Jobbik’s potential future in the EPP but ultimately ends up praising their “gradual moderation.”

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    The Hungary Helps program supports life in the homeland - Amnesty supports an end to nations

    The author serves as state secretary for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and for the Hungary Helps Program of the Prime Minister’s Office.

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    PM Orbán: We will vaccinate 7 million people by early June

    The “British mutation” is much more aggressive than the virus we faced last year, PM Orbán said, adding that the vaccine is the only way to “kill” this virus.

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    Let’s talk about the only real story regarding COVID-19 in Hungary

    With over 26 percent of our population having already received at least the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, Hungary is far outperforming other EU members.

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    Věra Jourová: The (Soros) Empire strikes again

    Many will recall that the Czech European Commissioner said last September that Hungarian people are “not in a position to form an independent opinion” and that, therefore, Hungary is a “sick democracy.” Now, Jourová strikes again.

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    PM Orbán in radio interview: We will have 3.5 million people vaccinated by April 20

    If we disobey the regulations during Easter, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warned, “we could find ourselves in big trouble.”

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    Hungary's coronavirus vaccination rate is now highest in Europe

    21.6 percent of the Hungarian population has received at least the first dose of one of the available vaccines, while 6.6 percent has received both jabs.

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    Conditions for a phased reopening in Hungary have been codified

    The decree stipulates that the first stage of easing coronavirus restrictions can begin once 2.5 million people have received their first Covid-19 shot.

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    National Consultation

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    Hungary’s latest national consultation launched on Monday. Here’s a look back at earlier consultations

    Jun 16, 2020 - Zoltán Kovács

    Beginning on Monday, questionnaires for Hungary’s national consultation are going out to every household in the country, some 7.8 million. This is the eighth national consultation since the first one nearly ten years ago, in September 2010. What began as a letter to pensioners asking for their opinions has become one of the Hungarian government’s effective methods for consulting the public before making important policy decisions.

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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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    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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