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CORONAVIRUS: Here's the latest

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

Guess who’s back with the idea of a mandatory quota system

As the establishment press in Sweden rarely allows non-mainstream opinions to be published, I have no other option but to respond to Swedish Left Party MEP Malin Björk’s concerned letter to EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson here.

PM Orbán: We must not let the virus paralyze our everyday lives

In a parliamentary address earlier today, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán noted that the second wave of the coronavirus is here, but Hungary is now more prepared than during the spring.

PM Orbán in Magyar Nemzet: Together we will succeed again

The following is the official, English-language transcript of Prime Minister Orbán's article in conservative daily Magyar Nemzet.

PM Orbán: The defense will end only after we have a vaccine against the coronavirus

“Hungary has to continue to function in a way that everybody abides by the regulations,” Prime Minister Orbán reiterated in an interview with Kossuth Rádió this morning.

PM Orbán inaugurates new bridge between Hungary and Slovakia: Today, Europe is being constructed in Central Europe

At the inauguration ceremony of the brand new Monostor Bridge over the Danube near Komárom, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said that the Danube does not separate, but connects Hungary and Slovakia.