Budapest, November 18 (MTI) – Hungary is a democracy where everybody is free to express their opinion as long as they abide by the law, Antal Rogan, the group leader of ruling Fidesz said today morning in reaction to the…
Budapest (MTI) – The ruling Fidesz party said on Saturday that Ferenc Gyurcsany, leader of the Democratic Coalition, is working to overthrow the government of Viktor Orban. In a statement, Szilard Nemeth said that it had become clear that Andre…
Budapest (MTI) – Support for the ruling Fidesz-Christian Democratic party alliance has dropped over the past month, while the radical nationalist Jobbik and the green LMP have enlarged their camp, pollster Nezopont said. The poll was conducted from November 3…
Budapest, November 9 (MTI) – The candidate of radical nationalist Jobbik, David Janiczak, won the repeat ballot for mayor in the city of Ozd in north-eastern Hungary on Sunday, according to results posted online by national election office NVI. Related…
Budapest, November 4 (MTI) – The new draft law on fair banking seeks to protect borrowers, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told journalists on Tuesday, adding that the government saw converting foreign currency loans into forint ones as a matter of…
Budapest, November 4 (MTI) – Lawmakers of the ruling Fidesz-KDNP alliance have proposed that banks should be allowed to change interest rates and interest rate margins in retail loan contracts only once every three years, parliamentary group leader Antal Rogan…
Budapest, October 28 (MTI) – The people suspected of vandalising the headquarters of the ruling Fidesz party at an anti-government demonstration on Sunday are political activists rather than football hooligans, Fidesz group leader Antal Rogan told commercial HirTV late on…
Budapest, October 20 (MTI) – Budapest mayor Istvan Tarlos has said he insists on keeping his right to a veto in the face of attempts to weaken his powers. In an interview to commercial broadcaster TV2, he said some politicians,…
Budapest (MTI) – “With our success in the local elections, we have our third win,” while in Budapest “we have more than a two-thirds,” Prime Minister Viktor Orban, the Fidesz leader, said in a speech after preliminary results were released…
(MTI) – The leftist opposition E-PM and Democratic Coalition (DK) parties have demanded an investigation into the assets of ruling Fidesz deputy leader Lajos Kosa, whose wife has been reported to own an undeclared property. E-PM’s Levente Papa told a…
Budapest, October 7 (MTI) – A European parliamentary committee’s rejection of commissioner-designate Tibor Navracsics’s bid to head the culture and education portfolio serves as a warning to the government, the radical nationalist Jobbik party said. After a hearing on Monday,…
(MTI) – Some 100,000 activists of ruling Fidesz will be on their feet mobilising voters during the last week of the campaign before the Oct.12 local elections, the party’s managing deputy leader said on Sunday. What is at stake at…
Budapest, October 2 (MTI) – The justice ministry had started preparing draft regulations on setting up a “system of fair banks” and these will regulate the conditions under which banks could offer personal loans, ruling Fidesz group leader Antal Rogan…
(MTI) – It is “unacceptable” that the Banking Association has put the president of the republic under pressure “in an aggressive manner,” Antal Rogan, leader of the Fidesz parliamentary group, said in a statement on Monday. Over a long period…
Budapest, September 24 (MTI) – Opposition parties called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday to clarify whether press reports of a planned 1.7 trillion forint (EUR 5.5bn) austerity package over the next few years are true or not. Gergely…
(MTI) – The result of the Scottish referendum is illuminating in several respects, in showing for instance that autonomy does not necessarily result in separation, head of parliament’s foreign affairs committee Zsolt Nemeth, of the ruling Fidesz party, said on…
Budapest, September 17 (MTI) – The opposition E-PM alliance has called on the ruling Fidesz party to stop hinting that it would cut off development funding to localities won by opposition forces in the upcoming local elections. Balazs Berkecz, member…
(MTI) – The Fidesz-led government’s economic achievements include tax cuts, employment at a 20-year high, a jobless rate below 8 percent, investments up by a fifth in April-June and Hungarian industrial output at a three-year peak, the prime minister told…
(MTI) – The ruling Fidesz party has asked the government to prepare legal amendments necessary to establish state-run, non-profit public utility companies, Antal Rogan, Fidesz’s parliamentary group leader, told a news conference on Friday. Rogan, speaking after a three-day party…
Brussels, September 10 (MTI) – Tibor Navracsics, Hungary’s foreign minister, has been selected to serve as EU commissioner for education, culture, youth and citizenship, it was announced on the commission’s website today. Hungary nominated Navracsics to serve as commissioner in…