Tag: Viktor Orban

The European Parliament and the German presidency of the Council of the EU are pointing fingers at one another as the specter of an EU budget delay looms closer. “We ...

Viktor Orbán on Monday sent a letter to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen demanding the resignation of her Vice President Věra Jourová after she criticized the Hungarian prime ...

Poland and Hungary plan to create a new institute to assess how the rule of law is being upheld across the EU, arguing they need to ensure their countries are ...

Central European leaders are not yet convinced by the European Commission’s new migration plan. “The tone of the proposal is better,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told reporters Thursday after ...

The Hungarian parliament will withhold its consent for the EU’s coronavirus recovery plan if a proposal to link the bloc’s funds to rule-of-law criteria is not first finalized to its ...

BUDAPEST — Like most countries in the summer of the coronavirus, Hungary is not short of troubles. But none seemed to dampen the holiday mood on the shores of Lake ...

Katalin Cseh is a Hungarian member of the European Parliament with the Renew Europe group. With the dismissal of the top editor of Hungary’s largest news site, Viktor Orbán’s oligarchs ...

Earlier in the day, three editors at Index.hu and more than 80 journalists – almost its entire staff – resigned over what they called an “open attempt to exert pressure” on ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s prime minister on Friday touted what he called his victory at the European Union summit, where the bloc’s leaders decided on a massive seven-year budget and ...

Gergő Sáling is managing partner and senior editor of Direkt36, a non-profit investigative journalism center in Hungary and the former editor-in-chief of Hungarian news site Origo. BUDAPEST — The firing ...