Budapest, November 23 (MTI) – Green opposition LMP lawmaker Benedek R Sallai on Monday dumped a truckload of manure in front of a government office building in Kaposvar, in southwest Hungary, in protest of the sale of state-owned farmlands. R…
Budapest, November 23 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP on Monday demanded that the government should stop all preparations for the expansion of the Paks nuclear power station until the related European Union procedures are concluded. Fidesz said in a…
Budapest, November 22 (MTI) – Hungary’s LMP party is turning to the Strasbourg court of human rights with a complaint against the house speaker, Laszlo Kovacs, who silenced LMP co-leader Bernadettt Szel during a parliamentary session in July. Szel said…
Budapest, November 18 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP wants the central bank to participate in compensating the victims of failed brokerage Quaestor. Lawmaker Erzsebet Schmuck told a press conference on Wednesday that the central bank had failed to fulfil…
Budapest, November 16 (MTI) – Hungary’s parliamentary parties on Monday called for increased security across Europe to prevent terrorist attacks similar to the ones carried out in Paris on Friday from occurring again in the future. Responding to Prime Minister…
Budapest (MTI) – Hundreds of people gathered at the French Institute in Budapest on Saturday evening to commemorate the victims of the Paris terror attacks. Hungarian Justice Minister Laszlo Trocsanyi expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and…
Budapest, November 14 (MTI) – Hungary’s political parties have strongly condemned Friday’s terror attacks and expressed solidarity with the French nation. The grief and fear of Paris are shared by all Europeans today, the governing Fidesz party said in a…
Budapest (MTI) – The radical nationalist Jobbik party and green opposition LMP said they will support the planned amendment to Hungary’s law on land sales provided that it leads to the dismantling of landlordism. Jobbik lawmaker Zoltan Magyar and LMP…
Budapest, November 9 (MTI) – The opposition Socialists will no longer participate in five-party talks on an amendment to Hungary’s church law, Gergely Barandy, Socialist deputy head of parliament’s legislative committee, told a press conference on Monday. The opposition LMP party…
Budapest (MTI) – The opposition LMP party on Saturday said it does not support ruling Fidesz’s initiative against EU migrant quotas. Fidesz has launched a signature drive to gather support for its policy of opposing European Union mandatory migrant quotas.…
Budapest (MTI) – October 23 is about an irrepressible hope and yearning for freedom, said Bernadett Szel, co-chair of green party LMP at a commemoration in Budapest on Friday. The ideas formulated tangibly and clearly at the onset of the…
Budapest (MTI) – Challenging the European Union’s system of mandatory migrant quotas could have “dire consequences” for Hungarian diplomacy, the green opposition LMP party warned on Wednesday. If the Hungarian government continues to press the issue, Germany and Austria could…
Budapest, October 19 (MTI) – Green opposition party LMP has accused the farm ministry of “lying” in its claim that protected areas are not a part of sales of state land. In a statement on Monday, LMP lawmaker Benedek R…
Budapest, October 13 (MTI) – The opposition Socialists, LMP and Jobbik parties will file a complaint to the Constitutional Court over the government’s planned sale of state-owned land, a Socialist lawmaker said on Tuesday. The complaint was initiated by radical…
Brussels (MTI) – The migration crisis is a global problem which must be tackled in the countries where it has its roots, the co-chair of the green LMP party said in Brussels on Friday. Andras Schiffer participated at a meeting…
Budapest (MTI) – Parties of the opposition staged a demonstration in central Budapest on Monday to protest against government plans to sell out plots of state-owned arable land. Benedek R Sallai, lawmaker of the initiator LMP party, said that selling…
Budapest, October 5 (MTI) – It is the responsibility of political parties and governments to take seriously people’s fears connected with migration but also to refrain from inciting fear and capitalising on it to boost popularity, the vice president of…
Budapest, September 28 (MTI) – Support for the allied ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrats went up by five percentage points over the past four weeks, while the opposition parties remained practically unchanged, a fresh poll by the Nezopont Institute said. Backing for…
Budapest, September 21 (MTI) – Fidesz has raised its supporter numbers to 1.9 million over the summer, while radical nationalist Jobbik party had 1.1 million and the Socialists 800,000 supporters, the latest poll by Ipsos showed. Fidesz’s support was up…
Budapest, September 21 (MTI) – Prime Minister Viktor Orban has broken his promise since parliament is about to pass a public procurement law proposed by the ruling parties that enables concealed links between bidders and those inviting bids, the green…