Budapest, January 25 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party has invited the opposition Socialists and the radical nationalist Jobbik party to talks regarding the government’s proposal to modify the constitution to allow special measures in case of a terrorism threat…
According to the news analysis of Nézőpont Institute, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is the most-speaking government politician, while Gábor Vona (Jobbik) is the first among the opposition politicians. The big loser of this competition is András Schiffer (LMP), nol.hu wrote.…
Budapest, January 21 (MTI) – The extraordinary session of Budapest’s municipal assembly on public transport funding convened for Thursday morning had to be cancelled as it failed to raise the required quorum of over 50 percent. A total of 10…
Budapest, January 19 (MTI) – Parties of the leftist and green opposition have savaged the public education system, pointing to meagre salaries and poorly run state schools under the thumb of a centralised organisation. The Democratic Coalition (DK) called on…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungarian families spend the highest proportion of their income on food in the European Union and healthy food is the luxury of rich people, Szilvia Lengyel, a member of the opposition LMP party’s presidium, said on Sunday.…
Budapest (MTI) – The opposition LMP party supports the referendum initiatives on organising the Budapest Olympics and the upgrade of the Varosliget (City Park), Antal Csardi, LMP’s councillor in Budapest, said on Saturday. LMP trusts that the Kuria, Hungary’s supreme…
Budapest (MTI) – The government has proposed amending the constitution to include a so-called “state of terrorist threat” among instances that mandate the mobilisation and, if need be, the domestic deployment of the armed forces. Speaking after Defence Minister Istvan…
Budapest, January 9 (MTI) – The green LMP opposition party has repeated its call on the government to halt the Paks nuclear power plant expansion, claiming that the only real aim of the project is to pump cash into businesses…
Budapest, January 4 (MTI) – Young people leaving Hungary in increasing numbers could be the biggest challenge of 2016, opposition LMP party said. It is estimated that 150,000-200,000 more young people could be leaving the country this year, which could…
Budapest, December 30 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party on Wednesday said that if it had been in power in 2015, people’s standards of living would have been directly proportional to how hard they had worked. Spokesman Jozsef Gal…
Budapest, December 22 (MTI) – The economy ministry on Tuesday reached an agreement with three employer associations and two trade unions on the monthly minimum wages for skilled and unskilled workers, state secretary Peter Cseresznyes said. Under the agreement, the…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungary’s current economic policies will never close the wage gap with the European average, the co-leaders of the green LMP party told a news conference on Saturday. In an assessment of the past year, Andras Schiffer and…
Budapest, December 17 (MTI) – In the course of auctioning off state farmland, the government has “betrayed the country for the sake of a couple of hundred families,” green opposition LMP party lawmaker said on Thursday. Government statements on the…
Budapest, December 16 (MTI) – The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats have been the winners of 2015 after increasing their popularity by 8 percent from a low point at the start of the year, pollster Nezopont said on Wednesday citing the results…
Budapest, December 16 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP will file a criminal report for abuse of power and mismanagement against an unknown perpetrator in connection with Eximbank lending 6.72 billion forints (EUR 21.3m) to government commissioner Andrew G Vajna’s…
Budapest (MTI) – There is no guarantee that the climate change agreement adopted at the Paris summit will be kept, the green opposition LMP party’s Erzsebet Schmuck said on Sunday. Schmuck told MTI by phone after attending the summit that…
Budapest, December 7 (MTI) – The government’s hastily expanded fostered work schemes only manage to conserve poverty; targeted programmes are needed instead, which help return people to the labour market, Ferenc Gertsmar, jobs spokesman for the opposition LMP party, said.…
Budapest, December 6 (MTI) – The proposal to nationalise the Budapest transport company BKV shows that the city’s public transport system is in critical condition, the green opposition LMP said on Sunday. Additionally, it shows that the long-term financing needed…
Paris (MTI) – Hungary still has a lot of climate change-related tasks left to fulfill, including the restructuring of its farming sector, LMP lawmaker Erzsebet Schmuck said in Paris on Friday. Schmuck, who is member of a parliamentary delegation at…
Budapest, November 23 (MTI) – Corruption and migration are two of the most serious problems that have overrun the country, Gabor Vona, leader of the radical nationalist Jobbik party, said on Monday during a parliamentary debate on corruption crackdown. Political…