Budapest, August 8 (MTI) – No amendment to Hungary’s election law can be expected after talks were held on Monday among parliamentary parties at the initiative of patriotic Jobbik in connection with the form of voting at the Oct. 2 migrant…
Budapest, August 3 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party has called on the government to allow all Hungarians living abroad, including those working in western Europe, to vote by mail in the October 2 migrant quota referendum. Party spokesman…
Budapest (MTI) – LMP co-leader Bernadett Szél and European Commissioner Tibor Navracsics discussed the future of Hungary and the EU at a panel discussion at the fourth Ecopolis Summer Academy in Felsőtarkány, in northern Hungary. In their debate held at…
Budapest (MTI) – The head of the Socialist Party and the co-leader of LMP held a public discussion focusing on opposition strategies before the next general election in 2018, at the Okopolis Summer Academy, on Thursday night. In the discussion,…
Budapest, July 27 (MTI) – The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat parties have retained their firm voter support according to the latest survey by pollster Tárki, published on Wednesday. In July the ruling parties increased their support from 27 to 30 percent,…
Baile Tusnad, Romania, July 22 (MTI) – It is a key issue of national sovereignty whether Hungary is allowed to determine the scope of its citizens and the conditions under which foreigners are let to enter its territory, Lajos Kósa,…
Budapest, July 20 (MTI) – The plenary session of parliament initiated by the opposition to debate the contested Liget project has been abandoned for lack of a quorum. Wednesday’s session was convened by the parliamentary speaker to debate the initiative…
Budapest, July 18 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party on Monday reaffirmed its call on the government to reduce Hungary’s dependence on Russian energy imports and take a more active stand against plans to extend the Nord Stream natural gas…
Budapest, July 17 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party will prepare for the forthcoming elections alone, without forming any alliance with another parliamentary party, co-leader Bernadett Szél said on Sunday. However, the party is prepared to cooperate with others on…
Budapest, July 16 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party elected Ákos Hadházy co-leader and assigned him a parliamentary mandate on Saturday. His predecessor, party founder András Schiffer, announced his resignation from all party posts and his parliamentary mandate on May…
Budapest, July 13 (MTI) – Asylum procedures in Hungary have become “pointless”, as it is now almost impossible to receive asylum and this has led to a rise in people smuggling, a spokesman for opposition LMP said. This trend has…
Budapest (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party will submit to parliament an action plan on handling Hungary’s labour shortages, the party’s co-leader announced on Monday. Hungary is seeing an emigration of its skilled workers and certain companies are considering…
Budapest (MTI) – The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance has increased its voter support to 31 percent of all respondents according to the latest survey by the Századvég Foundation. Support for radical nationalist Jobbik and the Socialist Party was slightly down…
Budapest, July 7 (MTI) – The government has joined forces with “big capital” to bring in people from other countries to fill jobs left by Hungarians who are now working abroad, the leader of opposition LMP said on Thursday. Bernadett…
Budapest, July 4 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán should stop embracing a policy of low wages in Hungary, which forces skilled workers to continue to seek jobs abroad, leader of the opposition LMP party Bernadett Szél said on Monday.…
Budapest, June 30 (MTI) – Sixty percent of Hungarians considered the decision by Britons to leave the EU unfavourable to Hungary and 64 percent disliked the idea of Hungary to follow suit, a survey released by Nézőpont Institute on Thursday…
Brussels, June 28 (MTI) – Hungarian political parties said on Tuesday after an emergency session of the European Parliament that Britain’s vote to leave the European Union was a message that the bloc needed to change. The most important task…
Budapest, June 28 (MTI) – The small opposition LMP party has expressed support for civil activists trying to block work under way in Budapest’s City Park within the contested Liget Project, and declared the construction illegal. László Heltai, LMP’s local…
Budapest, June 28 (MTI) – The small opposition LMP party has officially accepted the candidacy of Ákos Hadházy, the party’s anti-corruption spokesman, to replace Andras Schiffer as co-leader, daily Magyar Idők said on Tuesday. Schiffer resigned from the post at…
Budapest, June 25 (MTI) – Britain’s decision to leave the European Union will weaken the bloc and Hungary would have preferred a remain vote, Parliamentary Speaker László Kövér told MTI in an interview. Kövér noted that the UK and the…