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The situation in Israel remains “extremely worrying”, with some areas practically in a state of war, Szijjarto said, according to a foreign ministry statement. The Hungarian government’s top priority in such a situation is to ensure the safety of Hungarians, he said. The government has established contact with hundreds of people, 215 of whom were evacuated on two aircraft of the Hungarian Air Force last night, he said. One plane then returned to Tel Aviv to rescue 110 more people, he added. All Hungarians who have asked for assistance in returning home have landed in Hungary or are en route...

A senior European source tells The Times of Israel that the decision announced earlier today by European Union Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi to immediately sever all EU aid to the Palestinians will not be implemented, due to opposition from member states. Varhelyi is a diplomat from Hungary, which takes a much more hawkish approach toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than many of the 27 other members of the EU. The senior European source speculates that Varhelyi’s decision will be walked back tomorrow when the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borell meets with European foreign ministers.

Katalin was recruited in 1978 but she says that she never filed a report for Hungary's feared State Security Service. She has been tipped as a potential Nobel Prize winner. A biochemist whose work was integral to the development of vaccines for COVID-19 has admitted that she was an asset for the security services during Hungary’s Communist era.

The violence of asylum seekers flowing to Europe is becoming increasingly brutal: as Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced today, Tuesday, in the parliament in Budapest, migrants had shot the Hungarian border officials with automatic weapons on the last few nights. As early as 168 border guards are said to have been seriously injured on the southern border of the country, said Orbán, who noted that the illegals had thus exceeded the rubicon “ ”. Like the Express reported, there were already very similar incidents on the border with Serbia in June: there were also shootings with the border guards...

Amidst harsh criticism of the Biden administration and Hawaii government officials for their response to the devastating and deadly Maui fires, the Hungarian government has reportedly stepped up to provide shelter for 250 Maui families.There had been ample warning of the serious risk of wildfires and millions of dollars available to spend on preparing for them. Nonetheless, when fire raged through Lahaina this month, water was not initially released to fight it, government negligence had exacerbated the flammable nature of the area, people were blocked from escaping, and the exact death toll is unknown as hundreds of people are still...

...The mostly foreign anti-fascists organized a manhunt in the Hungarian capital in February, and authorities are currently searching for six German citizens among the perpetrators...

BUDAPEST (Sputnik) - The United States’ demand to hand over the data of 900,000 Hungarian citizens living abroad is unprecedented and unrealistic, Hungarian Deputy Interior Minister Bence Retvari said on Sunday, adding that Budapest would not share the information to avoid putting its citizens in danger. The main reason why Hungary has not agreed to hand over the data is security concerns, he added. "Such a request for someone to hand over the data of several hundred thousand of its citizens is unprecedented, countries do not do this. Every country protects and safeguards the data of its citizens with legal...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused the European Union of abandoning Christian heritage in favour of “hedonistic” paganism of LGBTQ+ campaign against pro-family nations. Speaking before the 32nd Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp festival of ideas in in Romania’s Baile Tusnad on Saturday, the Hungarian leader struck out against the European Union for giving up on its democratic ideals, engaging in population replacement, and of trying to impose leftist ideology surrounding gender upon Christian countries. ......“The Lord above us all, Hungary before everything else. Come on Hungary, come on Hungarians!”

Vladimir Putin’s handling of a mercenary mutiny shows the Russian president remains firmly in control, Viktor Orbán said in an interview — putting the Hungarian leader, once again, at odds with his Western partners. “When it is managed in 24 hours, it’s a signal of being strong,” Orbán told Axel Springer, POLITICO’s parent company. Referring to the Wagner paramilitary group’s recent rebellion, which put troops and armored vehicles dangerously close to Moscow, the Hungarian prime minister said he did not “see any major importance to that event,” separating him from numerous Western officials who, while remaining cautious, have said the...

A tragic incident occurred on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to New York on Sunday, resulting in the loss of an 11-year-old girl’s life. The pilot made an emergency landing in Budapest, Hungary, as a doctor on board attempted to help the girl. According to the airline, emergency medical personnel promptly boarded the Airbus A330-300 but despite their tireless efforts, they were unable to save the young passenger. “Our cabin crew made the announcement on the PA system for any doctors on board while the captain of the flight immediately diverted to Budapest,” a Turkish Airlines spokesperson told CBS...

The move is aimed at putting pressure on Hungary regarding the expansion of the alliance ahead of next month’s summit. The relationship between the United States and Hungary is becoming increasingly combative, napi.hu reports. So much so, that Senator James E. Risch, the ranking Republican member of the Foreign Relations Committee, is stopping the USD 735 million US arms sale to Hungary for not contributing to Sweden’s membership of NATO. Risch told The Washington Post that “Hungary must allow Sweden into NATO if it wants the arms package, which includes 24 HIMARS rocket launcher batteries, and more than 100 rockets...

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Last Thursday the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly to express its concern over Hungary’s scheduled presidency of the EU Council. The deplorable state of Hungarian democracy is by now widely known. Since 2010, prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party have systematically undermined the principles and institutions that underpin democratic governance. They have worked to curtail EU values such as academic freedom, gender equality and LGBTI+ rights, most recently in their copy-paste Russian law, which bans the visibility of the LGBTI+ community in public spaces. A core principle of any democracy is free and fair elections. Under Orbán’s leadership, this...

The Democrats in the United States should focus on their own country instead of trying to impose their leftist ideology on the rest of the world, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said. Speaking with the Bloomberg news agency in an interview at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha this week, Hungary’s populist-nationalist leader stressed the importance for countries such as the United States to respect the cultural identity of others, particularly for the left-wing Democrat party, which despite professing tolerance as a virtue seems to often struggle to embody it themselves. “I would say that the American Democrats are far...

Viktor Orbán’s Hungary continues to withstand attacks by pro-LGBT, pro-war EUHungarian Prime Minsiter Viktor Orbán has warned that if Europe does not find a balance between international collaboration and national sovereignty, it will find itself 'under the wheels of a bureaucratic juggernaut abusing its power.'(LifeSiteNews) — In a week which saw news of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plan to blow up Hungary’s main oil pipeline, a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament took to the airwaves to denounce a campaign of “show trials” by the European Union – against the pro-family country. Speaking to Hungarian outlet Kossuth Radio on March 15,...

In a week which saw news of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s plan to blow up Hungary’s main oil pipeline, a Hungarian Member of the European Parliament took to the airwaves to denounce a campaign of “show trials” by the European Union – against the pro-family country. Speaking to Hungarian outlet Kossuth Radio on March 15, Fidesz MEP Tamás Deutsch said that the EU’s Commission was colluding with left-wing pressure groups in withholding EU development funds from Hungary. “I trust that the Commission will not maintain this unlawful state,” Deutsch told Kossuth Radio, summarizing a perception that “We, Hungarians, have had to...

Hungary has blocked the disbursement of the eighth instalment of the European Peace Facility (EPF) for arms to Ukraine. Hungary blocks Ukraine from getting EUR 500M for weapons The instalment to be disbursed is worth EUR 500 million. It was due to be paid next Monday. The Italian newspaper ANSA reports that Hungary did not approve the grant because it demanded guarantees that the EPF would not use the money exclusively to arm Kyiv, but would maintain its “global horizon” in the future. The European Peace Facility was created by the European Council to help Member States better strengthen international...

“If Donald Trump were president of the US, Ukraine and Europe would not be inflicted by war,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told the CPAC conference now under way in Budapest.“Return, Mr. President, make America great again, and bring us peace,” the prime minister said.Meanwhile, Orbán said “the essence of illegal migration is to destroy the international community, to unravel the cultural basis necessary for the operations of a nation state.”“The woke movement and gender propaganda have the same objectives,” Orbán added. “Just like communism used to do, they cut the nation into artificial minorities and then incite antagonism between them;...

With recent measures to sanction the Hungarian government coming from the U.S. and the E.U., can we expect a grassroots movement for democracy to break out?Orbán’s electoral victoriesHungary has been consistently attacked by the European Commission. The Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán is described as anti-democratic, corrupt, and repressive.Yet Orbán has won a record four elections, winning a “supermajority” in parliament.This electoral success — and growing popularity — is perhaps explained by the policies of his party. So are the actions taken against it.Family and nation firstHis party, Fidesz, is openly Christian, and has been heavily criticized for passing laws...

Recently, I was on vacation in Budapest, Hungary, taking one of those bus trips of the city. Our guide was a young lady, probably mid-20's, who spoke excellent English but had always lived in Budapest. We drove by a major university and she said that a college education was free in Hungary. When we drove past a large city bus stop, she quickly pointed out that it, too, was free. Finally, we drove past a large hospital where I was told that medical care was free. Curious, I asked her what her income tax rate was and she relied that...