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(MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban discussed on Tuesday the situation in Romania and the European parliamentary elections with Hunor Kelemen, leader of the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party of Romania. The expansion of minority rights is ill-served by a recent…
(MTI) – The Hungarian government represents the interests of the “Tokaj” brand name at international forums and the local wine council supports every effort to protect the origin of Hungarian wines from the Tokaj region, the council said after a…
Budapest, February 14 (MTI) – The European Court of Justice is expected to pass a decision concerning Hungary’s current practice of exempting individuals from paying excise tax on less than 50 litres of home-distilled fruit brandy palinka, national daily Magyar…
Budapest, January 16 (MTI) – Brussels has told the Hungarian government it has no objections to a Hungarian-Russian agreement on upgrading its Paks nuclear plant, Janos Lazar, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said today. Nevertheless, a working group…
Recent survey by Gallup indicates that an increasing number of Hungarians – 63 percent – are disillusioned with the European Union; only 37 percent endorsed the globalist establishment, which is a 7 percent drop comparing to the 44 percent approval…
Budapest, January 3 (MTI) – European Union citizens living in Hungary can already declare whether they will vote here or in their home country at the European parliamentary elections scheduled for May 22-25. Under the relevant Hungarian regulations, elections can…
(MTI) – The two-day summit meeting of the European Union made a breakthrough regarding the banking union but saw only some promising initiatives concerning economic coordination, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels on Friday. Commenting on the banking union,…
(MTI) – Hungary will not lose a single forint in European Union development funds, and this also applies to the financial framework ending in 2013, Janos Lazar, the head of the prime minister’s office, said on Monday. Hungary has so…
Budapest, December 10 (MTI) – Hungary has violated EU law with the early termination of the contract of Data Protection Ombudsman Andras Jori, the European Court’s Advocate General Melchior Wathelet said on Tuesday. Hungary replaced its data protection obmudsman by…
(MTI) – The reforms Hungary has introduced were designed to address European issues rather than to resolve specifically Hungarian problems, Human Resources Minister Zoltan Balog said in a roundtable organised by the Hungarian EU representation in Brussels on Monday evening.…
(MTI) – Violence, especially by state authorities, is unacceptable, Zsolt Nemeth, the foreign affairs state secretary told a foreign ministerial session of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe held in Kiev on Thursday. The freedoms of assembly and…
The European economy will not be competitive without pursuing the policy of further integration and free trade, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated at the European Union’s Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius. Talking to Hungarian journalists, he said that new forms and…
Interview with Krisztina Morvai MEP. A world government is spying on 99.9 per cent of mankind. This is suggested by the leaked documents and the hearings conducted so far by the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament. The committee…