According to Nancy Goodman Brinker, the former US Ambassador to Budapest, Hungary is now a “former ally.” In a recent opinion piece at the über-conservative media site Newsmax.com, Brinker, a 72-year-old Republican concludes that Hungary’s alliance with the US has turned “unsavory.” Brinker writes: “Two decades ago, Mr. Orbán was a centrist who praised the
READ MOREThe story of Aleksei Torubarov’s six-year struggle for political asylum in Hungary, summarized yesterday, cannot be separated from the unusually close relations between Russia and Hungary. For a number of years Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán have had a close working relationship, based on their autocratic aspirations and most likely on many other considerations that
READ MOREThe number of people living in severe material deprivation in Hungary is at an all-time low as reflected by the latest figures from Eurostat. While these numbers are the most favorable yet, Hungary still has one of the highest poverty rates in the EU. Eurostat has released its latest dataset about severe material deprivation
Three Romanian and Hungarian investors will inaugurate on May 10 a feed factory in Mures. The idea of an investment of 15 million euros came after the shareholders saw how many grains Romania exported and how many feeds it imports. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced his presence to the event. UBM Group from Hungary
According to Nancy Goodman Brinker, the former US Ambassador to Budapest, Hungary is now a “former ally.” In a recent opinion piece at the über-conservative media site Newsmax.com, Brinker, a 72-year-old Republican concludes that Hungary’s alliance with the US has turned “unsavory.” Brinker writes: “Two decades ago, Mr. Orbán was a centrist who praised the
The story of Aleksei Torubarov’s six-year struggle for political asylum in Hungary, summarized yesterday, cannot be separated from the unusually close relations between Russia and Hungary. For a number of years Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán have had a close working relationship, based on their autocratic aspirations and most likely on many other considerations that
First and foremost, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the Law and Justice party (PiS), are responsible for the far-right’s rising to power in Europe after the May European elections, Frans Timmermans says. The Party of European Socialists’s (PES) candidate explained this at the center-left Democratic Party in Italy congress, after writing in Politico’s Europe