Budapest, November 11 (MTI) – The Azerbaijani president’s visit to Budapest clearly shows Hungary’s current international standing, a board member of the opposition Együtt (Together) party said on Tuesday. Nora Hajdu (Együtt) told reporters in front of Parliament, where Ilham…
Budapest (MTI) – Hungary’s 2015 budget contains measures that will impact families raising children, two opposition parties said on Saturday. Next year’s budget bill would reduce funds to support families raising children by 75 billion forints (EUR 242m), compared with…
Budapest, November 4 (MTI) – The green opposition LMP party has lodged a request for data in the public interest concerning whether or not the pro-government civil COF organisation has received public money. The party’s co-leader, Bernadett Szel, said in…
Budapest, November 2 (MTI) – The opposition LMP is urging the government to restart talks with Slovakia on diverting the Danube and turn to international forums if a new agreement is not achieved, the head of parliament’s sustainable development committee…
Budapest, October 31 (MTI) – Radical nationalist Jobbik deputy leader Elod Novak has also attributed to his party that the government “backed off from behind the internet tax”. Related article: Orban Says Internet Tax Cannot Be Introduced in Current Form…
Budapest, October 29 (MTI) – The opposition LMP party has submitted to parliament a ten-point anti-corruption law package, the party’s parliamentary leader said today. The laws have been designed to “free lawmaking from the grip of oligarchs” and serve the…
Budapest, October 17 (MTI) – The opposition E-PM on Friday demanded a public inquiry to identify Hungarian citizens affected by a US entry ban linked to their alleged involvement in corruption while the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) called for an…
Budapest, October 13 (MTI) – Sunday’s election victory has confirmed that the governing parties must continue to pursue policies which are “nation-based”, and follow ideas of a “people’s party” in the upcoming years, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Hungary’s parliament…
Budapest, October 12 (MTI) – Mayoral candidates for the city of Budapest cast their votes in Hungary’s local elections on Sunday. Mayoral candidate for the Liberals, Zoltan Bodnar, declined to speculate on the percent of the vote his party would…
Budapest, October 12 (MTI) – Opposition party leaders cast their ballots in Hungary’s local elections on Sunday. Gabor Vona, who heads radical nationalist Jobbik, went to the polls in Budapest’s 11th district on Sunday. He encouraged all voters to go…
Budapest, October 4 (MTI) – The government and opposition parties issued statements to mark the 4th anniversary of the red sludge disaster in western Hungary, today. On October 4 in 2010, about a million cubic metres of toxic red sludge…
Budapest, September 29 (MTI) – Budapest mayoral candidate Ferenc Falus announced today that he is stepping down as a candidate. Originally put forward by the opposition E-PM party alliance, Falus was supported by the opposition Socialists and the leftist opposition…
Budapest, September 24 (MTI) – Opposition parties called on Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Wednesday to clarify whether press reports of a planned 1.7 trillion forint (EUR 5.5bn) austerity package over the next few years are true or not. Gergely…
(MTI) – Sandor Burany, Socialist head of parliament’s budget committee, has called a meeting of the body for next Monday to hear Gyorgy Matolcsy, governor of the National Bank, as well as members of the supervisory board in connection with…
Budapest, August 28 (MTI) – If elected mayor of Budapest, Antal Csardi, the green opposition LMP’s candidate for the post, will strive to make municipal spending more transparent, and save up to 10 billion forints through reorganising city operations. In…
(MTI) – Although ruling Fidesz maintained its firm lead ahead of its rivals, the opposition left-of-centre parties, namely the Socialists, the Democratic Coalition and the E-PM alliance, increased their support in August, a poll released by Ipsos on Thursday showed.…
Budapest, August 5 (MTI) – The government’s planned subsidy cuts have created tensions in the farming sector, the head of the Association of Agricultural Producers (MOSZ) said today. Area-based European Union subsidies are set to drop by at least 150,000…
(MTI) – The small opposition LMP party re-elected Bernadett Szel and Andras Schiffer as co-chairs at a national congress on Saturday. The congress also elected a nine-member national board that includes the two co-chairs. The board that has a mandate…
Budapest, June 23 (MTI) – If parliament approves the bill on a loan with Russia for the expansion of the Paks nuclear plant in a final vote on Monday, the opposition LMP party will ask President Janos Ader not to…
(MTI) – Hungary’s regions outside Budapest must be developed and the economy boosted, but not at the expense of the capital, a senior official of the green opposition LMP party said on Sunday. Laszlo Lorant Keresztes told a press conference…