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    • Q & A on former Macedonian PM Nikola Gruevski’s asylum request in Hungary

    Some questions and answers concerning an extraordinary case

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    Hungary's third-quarter GDP grows by 5 percent year-on-year

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    Here's the English version of Hungary's national consultation on the protection of the family

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    Here’s my response that Süddeutsche Zeitung refused to publish

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    Minister Gulyás on the Article 7 procedure: ‘A political accusation disguised as rule-of-law concerns’

    "We believe that the accusation stating there is a systemic threat to rule-of-law in Hungary is completely absurd"

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    PM Orbán: It’s better to govern with the people than against the people

    "We Hungarians don’t simply want to have the numbers. We want Hungarian children.”

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    PM Orbán and EPP support Weber for top job

    “We are bridge builders. We build bridges between the European Union and its citizens,” Weber said, reiterating his campaign’s slogan

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    Fake News: No, Le Monde, Hungary was not alone in Shanghai

    This work of journalism is so sloppy it deserves special mention in our fake news collection

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    National Consultation

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    Blog

    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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