Budapest, February 1 (MTI) – A small group of activists and opposition politicians gathered to demand the ratification of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention on preventing and combatting domestic violence in front of Parliament on Wednesday morning. The demonstration…
Budapest (MTI) – The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance continued to hold a commanding lead over the opposition parties in January, according to a fresh poll by Tárki released on Monday. In the whole sample, support for Fidesz-KDNP stood at 33…
Budapest (MTI) – The government spent 735 billion forints (EUR 2.4bn) on “useless luxury projects” last year, while the cost of tax reductions and wage hikes added up to only half of that total, opposition LMP group leader Erzsébet Schmuck…
Budapest, January 25 (MTI) – The Budapest assembly on Wednesday approved the final proposal on locations selected under the Hungarian capital’s bid to host the 2024 Olympics. Budapest’s mayor, István Tarlós, has failed to discuss proposals concerning renovating the third…
Budapest, January 24 (MTI) – Erzsébet Schmuck has announced her resignation as leader of the opposition LMP party’s parliamentary group, Magyar Nemzet said on Tuesday. Schmuck will step down from the post on Feb. 16. She told the paper that…
Budapest (MTI) – The opposition LMP party on Friday said that “political earthquakes” such as the inauguration of Donald Trump as the president of the United States would always challenge citizens to make a choice. “People should either choose to…
Budapest, January 20 (MTI) – The cost of addressing environmental harm caused by the 2024 Budapest Olympics, if the event goes ahead, could add 1,000 billion forints (EUR 3.2bn) to the final tab of hosting the Games, opposition LMP deputy…
Budapest, January 19 (MTI) – Both the opposition Socialist and LMP parties back an NGO initiative to collect signatures demanding Hungary drop its bid to host the Olympic Games in Budapest in 2024. The Momentum Movement civil organisation wants voters…
Budapest, January 15 (MTI) – Green opposition LMP will contest the 2018 parliamentary election on its own, as it does not see any viable allies among any of the other parliamentary parties, Bernadett Szél, the party’s co-leader, said on Sunday.…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungary’s Constitutional Court ruled on Friday that the provisions concerning the supreme administrative court in the law on public administration court procedures are unconstitutional. The ruling is in keeping with the opinion of President János Áder. The…
Budapest, January 12 (MTI) – The Government Debt Management Agency (AKK) on Thursday said it will stop selling residency bonds, citing favourable developments in the country’s financing conditions in the last year. Applications for the purchase of residency bonds can…
Budapest, January 9 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party has called for talks between the parliamentary parties next week to discuss its proposal aimed at increasing the transparency of politicians’ assets. Under LMP’s proposal, politicians would be subjected to a…
Budapest, January 8 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party has urged action against Russia’s influence seen by the party as increasing during the past six years. Petér Ungár, LMP’s expert on the subject, called it “sad and unacceptable” what his…
Budapest, January 4 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party has called on the government to treat small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) as strategic partners rather than cosying up to multinationals, the party’s economic policy expert said on Wednesday. This would…
Budapest, December 30 (MTI) – Hungarian opposition parties on Friday gave a gloomy assessment of the government’s performance over the past year. The Socialist Party said 2016 was the year of failure for the ruling Fidesz party, which it said…
Budapest (MTI) – The government’s new tax package is aimed at “fixing problems created by the government itself”, opposition LMP said on Saturday. LMP spokesman József Gál told MTI that the government had served the interests of multinational companies rather…
Budapest, December 12 (MTI) – Jobbik and green opposition LMP oppose a planned legal amendment enabling the prime minister, government ministers and state secretaries to head sports associations. Jobbik lawmaker György Szilágyi told a press conference on Monday that such…
Budapest, December 12 (MTI) – Green opposition LMP has once again called for a pay rise for public workers and civil servants, calling it “intolerable” that their wages are set to be unchanged for the ninth year in a row…
Budapest, December 12 (MTI) – Hungary’s political parties have hailed the outcome of Romania’s recent general election, in which the ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party garnered over 6 percent of the votes and will have seats in the Bucharest parliament. Jobbik…
Budapest, December 8 (MTI) – Topics discussed at a Budapest conference held on Thursday, Human Rights Day, included Hungary’s sovereignty within the European Union, special laws for handling terrorist threats, the fundamental law on social inclusion and Hungary’s constitution. The…