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

Bucharest is an empire that behaves like the Austrian Empire during the Szeklers’ massacre 255 years ago, says a member of the Hungarian government. It is the last of a long suite of insulting statements and actions of high-ranking Hungarian dignitaries left without a reply from the Romanian government controlled by Liviu Dragnea and dependent
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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
READ MOREDuring Christmas this year was recorded the strongest attack, which can be a major hybrid threat, at Gatwick’s second largest UK airport in southern London. Unidentified people blocked air traffic for three days with the help of industrial drones in a planned and coordinated form that blocked the air traffic and the British authorities
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Authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is working hard (and efficiently) to dismantle independent democratic institutions in Hungary. Now he tightened his grip on the court system by creating a parallel judicial structure under his trusted justice minister. The new system will be in place within a year and Mr. Orbán will have full control
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It never fails. The Hungarian public first learned about Viktor Orbán’s jaunt to Brazil to attend the inauguration of Jaire Bolsonaro from a Brazilian press release, not from the Hungarian government. On December 26, Folhapress, a Brazilian news agency, reported that “the polemical, controversial, and ultranationalist premier” Viktor Orbán had confirmed that he would be
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-As prepared- Chairman Nemeth, Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, distinguished guests: Thank you for asking me to speak to you today. It is an honor to continue the tradition of U.S. Ambassadors speaking before this esteemed group. When I first visited Hungary in 2013 (which by the way is also when I first
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