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Gulyás: VDL state of EU speech was a “huge disappointment”
The president of the European Commission failed to address the most important issues or put forward a plan to stop Europe’s competitive backsliding on the global stage.
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PM Orbán: According to EU founding Treaties, it is a national competence how to raise our children
The European Parliament and the European Commission want LGBTQ activists to be allowed into schools and kindergartens, the Hungarian prime minister said in Belgrade on Thursday.
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PM Orbán disappointed by von der Leyen statement based on "false allegations"
Comments made by Ursula von der Leyen concerning recent Hungarian legislation is a shame because it is based on false allegations.
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PM Orbán: Hungary continues to oppose the migrant quota
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said Hungary continues to oppose the migrant quota, even if the European Commission's new migration and refugee package uses a different term for it.
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State Secretary: EU should cooperate and ease pressure of illegal migration outside the community
The state secretary said Europe’s borders must be controlled; hotspots should be created outside those borders where applications for asylum could be processed.
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President Áder highlights river waste issue with Ursula von der Leyen
President Áder said that despite previous promises by Romania and Ukraine, the flooded rivers flowing into eastern Hungary continue to bring large amounts of waste.
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Várhelyi: What an honor to become part of team Ursula von der Leyen
“The government welcomes that the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee has supported Várhelyi’s appointment as European commissioner,” the Government Information Center said in a statement.
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Hungary’s EU Commissioner nominee Olivér Várhelyi gets green light from EP Foreign Affairs Committee
Olivér Várhelyi will take up the Enlargement and Neighborhood portfolio in the Commission of Ursula von der Leyen, which is expected to take office December 1.
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Introducing Olivér Várhelyi, Hungary’s nominee for European Commissioner
In a press conference on Monday evening, Prime Minister Orbán officially nominated seasoned diplomat Olivér Várhelyi, Hungary’s ambassador to the EU, as the country’s next European Commissioner. Here are a few things you should know.
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UVDL to ask Hungary and Romania to name new commissioner designates
President-elect of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will ask Hungary and Romania to name new commissioner designates following an official letter from David Sassoli, President of the European Parliament, about the decision of the EP legal committee.
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PM Orbán on the new European Commission: The V4 countries have won vital portfolios
Two of the vice-presidents on the new European Commission will come from Slovakia and the Czech Republic, while the Polish commissioner will oversee Agriculture. “The whole region, with the V4 at the helm, is seeing an on-going increase in appreciation,” Prime Minister Orbán said in a radio interview this morning, before talking about enlargement, the European way of life, foreign policy goals and family policy.
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László Trócsányi holds "constructive" talks with Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Von der Leyen has started conducting interviews with commission candidates even though Italy has yet to propose a nominee due to its ongoing political crisis.
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PM Orbán meets with Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels
PM Orbán said they had agreed at the meeting that migrants should not be released into the EU while they are awaiting a decision on asylum. Rather, a humane solution should be found that ensures the safety of citizens. Also, they agreed that migrants who come to the EU illegally should be sent home.