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 MOREIstván Székely, executive vice president of the UDMR, announced on Friday in a debate with other Hungarian parties that his party will submit a project on the autonomy of the Szeklerland only if another party “provides support for a substantive debate on the issue”, according to the Hungarian MTI agency. The previous two UDMR attempts
READ MOREThe file of the Mayor of Sfantu Gheorghe, Antal Arpad, opened by the DNA of Bucharest in 2015 for abuse of service, trafficking of influence, misappropriation of one million Euro damage, was closed and ranked after four years, according to Mediafax. Antal Arpad said on Wednesday in Sfântu Gheorghe at a press conference that the
READ MOREAlthough I have written numerous times about the newly created European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO), an article in today’sPolitico prompted me to return to the topic. Currently, there are two serious candidates for the job of chief prosecutor: the Romanian Laura Codruţa-Kövesi, the famed former head of the Romanian Direcția Națională Anticorupție (DNA), and the
READ MOREThe Hungarian authorities have been recommended to refrain from further travel to Zakarpattia and other measures that can be considered as campaigning before the end of the electoral process in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has expressed concern about the latest actions of Hungary’s authorities that have “clear signs of meddling in Ukraine’s domestic
READ MOREThe Government of Hungary finances with 73 million euros 66 projects in Harghita, Covasna and Mures, as part of the economic development program of Szeklerland, according to MTI. Of the declared winning projects 31 come from Harghita, 18 from Covasna and 17 from Mureş County. Applicants whose projects have been rejected have the right to
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