Watch: Rule of Law Situation Has Deteriorated in Hungary, Says Brussels
- 25 May 2022 8:53 AM
Source: Euronews.com
Source: Euronews.com
Opposition parties reacted to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's speech assessing the state of the nation over the past year.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Budapest on Sunday, where he was welcomed at Liszt Ferenc International Airport by Levente Magyar, parliamentary state secretary at the foreign ministry.
In 2025, Hungary was once again ranked at the bottom of the European Union, sharing last place with Bulgaria this time, according to the annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) compiled by the Secretariat of Transparency International in Berlin.
The government issued a decree on Tuesday, citing the war in Ukraine, with the explicit aim of preventing Budapest from pursuing its legal challenge against the "profoundly unjust and unlawful" solidarity contribution, Gergely Karácsony, the city's mayor, has said in a Facebook post.
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