The magnitude of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s defeat is surprising, perhaps even shocking. The fact his Fidesz party lost by a solid margin, however, should have surprised no one. Orbán is widely derided by Western elites as an autocrat, and it is true that the state and most privately owned media are relentlessly supportive of…
The amendment declares that children’s rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including the right to peaceful assembly. Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics are calling…
BEIJING/BUDAPEST, July 8 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to discuss a potential Ukraine peace deal, paying the unexpected visit to Beijing days after his talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin angered some European Union leaders. Orban and Xi met at the Diaoyutai State Guest House in Beijing,…
Pope Francis said he has asked for a meeting in Moscow to help bring about an end to the war and warned that Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, a key backer of President Vladimir Putin’s fight against Ukraine, should not become Putin’s “altar boy.” The pope’s remarks came in an interview published on May 3 in…
The ‘Merkel brake’ that held up progress on the rule of law is now finally off. Guy Verhofstadt is a member of the European Parliament. He is the former leader of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and a former prime minister of Belgium. Europe is born from crisis situations, or so the…
Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron had suggested inviting the Russian president for talks. Leaders have though agreed new funding for the migration pact with Turkey. EU leaders agreed Friday to plan for sanctions against Russia but rejected a push for a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the EU summit in Brussels, France and…
European Union talks on a shared coronavirus stimulus package reconvene on Sunday after the failure to agree on what strings to attach to the aid. The German chancellor said the third day would be “decisive.” German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Sunday that it is still possible European Union leaders could fail to reach an…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovak counterpart Peter Pellegrini inspected the Hungarian-Serbian border on Thursday, one of the main obstacles for migrants attempting to enter Europe via the Balkans immigration route to Europe, with Slovakia renewing its commitment to assist Hungary if the country requires Slovakia’s help. At an impromptu press conference held…
The Turkish president’s racist conspiracy theories are a threat to economic stability. President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the press during the Argentina G20 Leaders’ Summit 2018 on Dec. 1 in Buenos Aires. (Daniel Jayo/Getty Images) On Nov. 21, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a meeting of local elected officials that “the famous Hungarian Jew…