Video: Sunday's Election In Hungary Will Be A Barometer Of Nationalist Sentiment
- 6 Apr 2018 3:00 PM
MTI Photo: Szigetváry Zsolt
MTI Photo: Szigetváry Zsolt
The number of Ukrainian spies exposed in Hungary is growing, the minister heading the Prime Minister's Office told a regular press conference on Thursday. "The first was Szabolcs Panyi, who has been spying on his own country in cooperation with a foreign state, and the IT experts working for the Tisza Party," Gergely Gulyas said.
The Buda Central District Court on Wednesday fined former Socialist Party vice-president Gabor Simon Ft 30 million after acquitting him on charges of budget fraud, but finding him guilty of falsifying documents, news website 24.hu reports.
Hungary’s government has launched an investigation following claims that Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó may have been targeted in a surveillance operation involving foreign intelligence services and a Hungarian journalist.
The European Commission has activated a regulatory tool capable of restricting the content of social media ahead of the Hungarian election, Fidesz MEP Csaba Domotor said in Budapest on Wednesday. "After the oil blockade, here's the Facebook blockade."
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