924 result(s) for democracy
Official: Brussels Afraid Of Hungary Referendum
- 16 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The European Union is afraid of Hungary’s October 2 referendum on migrant quotas and spares no effort to thwart it, Csaba Dömötör, state secretary at the prime minister’s cabinet office, said.
Opposition Parties Slam Orbán On Migration
- 13 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition Socialist Party said at a debate in Parliament it was plainly misleading to blame the European Commission for the migration crisis. Responding to the prime minister’s remarks, Socialist group leader Bertalan Tóth said rather than hindering a solution to the crisis the European community is the “sole potential solution”.
Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks Commemorated In Budapest
- 12 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
A commemoration was held in front of Budapest’s US embassy on Sunday, to mark the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Addressing the ceremony, US ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell said that September 11 was a day of pointless violence, but at the same time of heroism and solidarity, too.
Socialists: Fidesz Has Deceived People, Orbán Regime Must Go
- 5 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Socialist party leader Gyula Molnár said Fidesz and the “Orbán regime” must fall in 2018 because they have deceived people by claiming that they can govern in their interest whereas they are only acting “in the interest of their own cronies”. Speaking at the season- and campaign-opening meeting of his party’s board in Budapest on Saturday, Molnár said “Fidesz’s country is a country of pretences”, ...
Xpat Opinion: Budaházy Sentenced To 13 Years
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators ponder the severe sentences handed down to the defendants in the first political terror case in the history of Hungarian democracy.
Orbán Reaffirms Stance On Trump
- 24 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On the topic of comments Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently made about the US presidential race, Brazilian daily Folha de S. Paulo noted that the Hungarian prime minister had said that out of the two major candidates’ foreign policy plans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s plan was better for the EU.
Trump Remark By Hungary’s PM No Tongue-Slip
- 28 Jul 2016 1:35 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s comment at Baile Tusnad open university last weekend that it would be preferable for Europe and Hungary if Donald Trump were to be elected as the new US president was not a slip of the tongue, Fidesz sources told Népszabadság on Tuesday.
PM: Austria Benefits From Hungary’s Border Policy
- 27 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
If Hungary can keep stopping illegal entrants on its southern border, it can also protect Austria from illegal immigration, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern. He said Hungary had now fully sealed its border with Serbia, noting that under the country’s criminal code, no one is allowed to stay illegally in Hungary.
Hungarian PM Orbán Endorses Trump
- 26 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Speaking at the same Romanian venue from which he shocked the world two years ago by embracing illiberal democracy, Orbán reportedly said that Trump is right in that he believes intelligence agencies need to be strengthened, and that the export of democracy needs to be stopped.
Official: Brussels Afraid Of Hungary Referendum
- 16 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The European Union is afraid of Hungary’s October 2 referendum on migrant quotas and spares no effort to thwart it, Csaba Dömötör, state secretary at the prime minister’s cabinet office, said.
Opposition Parties Slam Orbán On Migration
- 13 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition Socialist Party said at a debate in Parliament it was plainly misleading to blame the European Commission for the migration crisis. Responding to the prime minister’s remarks, Socialist group leader Bertalan Tóth said rather than hindering a solution to the crisis the European community is the “sole potential solution”.
Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks Commemorated In Budapest
- 12 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- community & culture
A commemoration was held in front of Budapest’s US embassy on Sunday, to mark the 15th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, DC. Addressing the ceremony, US ambassador to Hungary Colleen Bell said that September 11 was a day of pointless violence, but at the same time of heroism and solidarity, too.
Socialists: Fidesz Has Deceived People, Orbán Regime Must Go
- 5 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Socialist party leader Gyula Molnár said Fidesz and the “Orbán regime” must fall in 2018 because they have deceived people by claiming that they can govern in their interest whereas they are only acting “in the interest of their own cronies”. Speaking at the season- and campaign-opening meeting of his party’s board in Budapest on Saturday, Molnár said “Fidesz’s country is a country of pretences”, ...
Xpat Opinion: Budaházy Sentenced To 13 Years
- 2 Sep 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Commentators ponder the severe sentences handed down to the defendants in the first political terror case in the history of Hungarian democracy.
Orbán Reaffirms Stance On Trump
- 24 Aug 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
On the topic of comments Prime Minister Viktor Orbán recently made about the US presidential race, Brazilian daily Folha de S. Paulo noted that the Hungarian prime minister had said that out of the two major candidates’ foreign policy plans, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s plan was better for the EU.
Trump Remark By Hungary’s PM No Tongue-Slip
- 28 Jul 2016 1:35 AM
- current affairs
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s comment at Baile Tusnad open university last weekend that it would be preferable for Europe and Hungary if Donald Trump were to be elected as the new US president was not a slip of the tongue, Fidesz sources told Népszabadság on Tuesday.
PM: Austria Benefits From Hungary’s Border Policy
- 27 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
If Hungary can keep stopping illegal entrants on its southern border, it can also protect Austria from illegal immigration, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with Austrian Chancellor Christian Kern. He said Hungary had now fully sealed its border with Serbia, noting that under the country’s criminal code, no one is allowed to stay illegally in Hungary.
Hungarian PM Orbán Endorses Trump
- 26 Jul 2016 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Speaking at the same Romanian venue from which he shocked the world two years ago by embracing illiberal democracy, Orbán reportedly said that Trump is right in that he believes intelligence agencies need to be strengthened, and that the export of democracy needs to be stopped.