Putin's bank moves to Budapest, gets all conceivable privileges and immunities
- Featured post, Foreign, Political
- 21 February 2019

State Secretary Mike Pompeo’s messages, transmitted on Monday in Budapest, deserve the utmost attention. They are not just talking about Hungary. At first glance, it only indicates a desperate attempt by Washington to extract Viktor Orban from Putin’s spell and to turn Hungary as far as possible into the values of the Western world: justice,
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Hungarian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter Szijjarto said during a press conference with state secretary Mike Pompeo that Hungary has requested a decision from US companies on gas exploitation on Romanian territory, according to Index.hu. In his turn, the Secretary of State said that “the US was too often absent in this region. This is unacceptable,
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“Hungary is spending its money on families rather than on migrants,” Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Thursday, in reaction to critical remarks by a Swedish minister concerning the Hungarian government’s recent family assistance measures. In a tweet, Annika Strandhall, the Swedish minister for social affairs, said that Hungary’s “alarming” policies were “reeking with the
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Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced a seven-point family protection action plan in his state-of-the nation address in Budapest. “This is Hungary’s answer to challenges, rather than immigration”, the prime minister said. Listing the points of the action plan, Orban said Every woman under 40 years of age will be eligible to a preferential loan when
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