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State Secretary: Hungary will veto EU's proposal to ban imports of Russian oil
Speaking on the BBC, Zoltán Kovács said the proposal is "unacceptable" and would "ruin the Hungarian economy".
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FM to BBC: Hungary is under continuous attack from Brussels
The foreign minister said European institutions find a way to put some pressure on us and to blackmail us so we change our decisions and not use national competencies.
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Justice Minister: EU deal is a victory for common sense
Justice Minister Judit Varga said Thursday’s agreement concerning the European Union’s next budget and coronavirus recovery fund has in the first place been a victory for common sense.
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International Spokesman: George Soros became a political player two decades ago
Zoltán Kovács said Soros’s institutional network wields great power without ever having had an electoral mandate
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Advisor to former British PM praises Hungary’s family policy
Phillip Blond said the Hungarian action plan is "an extremely progressive, forward-thinking program" that "stabilizes families when they are most vulnerable".
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Foreign minister defends Hungarians after BBC reporter said the nation was xenophobic
“What we don’t want is a massive illegal influx coming from the south to us. We want to keep Hungary a Hungarian country. And we don’t think multiculturalism is by definition good,” the foreign minister said
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BBC Reporter frets about Hungary and the end of liberal democracy and gets owned by Steve Bannon
When Steve Bannon spoke at the Future of Europe conference in Budapest recently he mentioned that he had just been interviewed by the BBC and that at the end of what was a lengthy conversation, the reporter had to get in one last question. Her last question was about Hungary and Viktor Orbán, and she was so unnerved, said Bannon, that “her head blew up.”
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Brace yourselves, election season is here
Hungary’s parliamentary elections will be held less than seven weeks from today, on April 8th, and we find ourselves up to our eyeballs in election season madness.
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Hungary's FM: Illegal migration poses a serious security threat to Europe
During an interview on the BBC Hardtalk program, Péter Szijjártó, minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, said it was highly problematic that the European Union failed to get the migrant situation under control at the start of the crisis
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Reports of brutality by Hungarian police towards migrants are untrue
"The people who wrote these [reports] have not been to Hungary, or if they did they are lying," the minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said
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BBC to hold political debate in Hungary following referendum result
As part of a series of debates across Europe, the BBC World Service will host the show focused around Hungary's migrant stance and the issues migration has on Europe as a whole