143 result(s) for us visa
“Europe & Hungary Are Experiencing A Refugee Crisis”
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
There is a very real refugee crisis unfolding in Hungary, and nobody knows how long it will last. The government provides funding for everything except essentials: billions of forints squandered on billboard campaigns and a 175-kilometre border fence, while the migrant servicing system is overwhelmed. The answer has yet to be found on a European level, as well.
Hungarian Party LMP Presses Ministry To Release List Of Diplomatic Passports
- 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition LMP party is filing a lawsuit in a bid to force the foreign ministry to reveal a list of diplomatic passport-holders over the past five years. Bernadett Szél, LMP’s coleader, noted in a statement on Friday that Csaba Tarsoly, the owner of bankrupted brokerage firm Quaestor now under arrest on suspicion of fraud, had made several trips around the world using a diplomatic passport ...
Hungarian Consulate In Moscow Supplied EU Visas To 'Gangsters And Whores'
- 3 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Translation of an article by András Dezső and Szabolcs Panyi “Előre kurvák, gengszterek! – A Kiss Szilárd-sztori III. rész” (“Whores and gangsters, forward!”- The Szilárd Kiss story part 3.”) published at Hungarian daily online Index.hu on 23. March 2015.
Rapport Between Hungary & United States Improves
- 24 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Now that the US has a new ambassador in Hungary: Colleen Bell, you might ask if relations between Hungary and the US are changing. Sources that Heti Válasz have asked have confirmed that saying that Washington has become more pragmatic and Budapest is now more responsive to US interests in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks and Paks 2.
András Simonyi: Orbán Is Off Course & Heading Down The Wrong Track
- 23 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The first half of our interview with András Simonyi, Hungary’s former ambassador to NATO and the United States, was published on Thursday, February 19, 2015. The interview took place on Wednesday, February 18, the day after Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to Budapest. Mr. Simonyi is presently managing director for the Center of Transatlantic Relations at the ...
Stratfor: Orbán Government Faces Its Most Difficult Year In Office Since 2010
- 10 Jan 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
In its analysis of Hungarian politics in the year 2015, the U. S. geopolitical intelligence and consulting firm Stratfor, founded by Hungarian-born political scientist George Friedman, the institute assesses the challenges to be faced by Viktor Orbán’s government in 2015. In the forecast, Stratfor claims that 2015 will be the administration’s most difficult year since the second Orbán cabinet ...
Hungarian Prosecutors Ask Ministry To Lift Goodfriend’s Immunity
- 23 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Like a bad episode from the Twilight Zone, Hungarian prosecutors today asked the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade to lift US Embassy Chargé d’affaires André Goodfriend’s immunity from prosecution so that he can be tried in Hungary for defamation. Thanks to changes made to the criminal code under the current Fidesz-KDNP government, defamation is now a felony punishable with up to three years ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary As A “Field Of Operation”
- 19 Dec 2014 12:00 AM
- current affairs
Paranoia seems to have swept through the Hungarian government. Fidesz politicians are convinced that the United States wants to remove Viktor Orbán and cause his government’s fall. All this is to be achieved by means of the “phony” charge of corruption.
US Entry Ban Against Hungarian Officials
- 15 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The US chargé d’affaires responded to a request for information made by the public prosecutor on Oct. 27 and “no substantive information was forthcoming”, the prosecutor’s office said. It was confirmed, however, that the case concerned visas in connection with the US entry ban of several Hungarian officials, the details of which remain confidential, it added.
“Europe & Hungary Are Experiencing A Refugee Crisis”
- 6 Jul 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
There is a very real refugee crisis unfolding in Hungary, and nobody knows how long it will last. The government provides funding for everything except essentials: billions of forints squandered on billboard campaigns and a 175-kilometre border fence, while the migrant servicing system is overwhelmed. The answer has yet to be found on a European level, as well.
Hungarian Party LMP Presses Ministry To Release List Of Diplomatic Passports
- 27 Apr 2015 10:00 AM
- current affairs
The opposition LMP party is filing a lawsuit in a bid to force the foreign ministry to reveal a list of diplomatic passport-holders over the past five years. Bernadett Szél, LMP’s coleader, noted in a statement on Friday that Csaba Tarsoly, the owner of bankrupted brokerage firm Quaestor now under arrest on suspicion of fraud, had made several trips around the world using a diplomatic passport ...
Hungarian Consulate In Moscow Supplied EU Visas To 'Gangsters And Whores'
- 3 Apr 2015 9:00 AM
- current affairs
Translation of an article by András Dezső and Szabolcs Panyi “Előre kurvák, gengszterek! – A Kiss Szilárd-sztori III. rész” (“Whores and gangsters, forward!”- The Szilárd Kiss story part 3.”) published at Hungarian daily online Index.hu on 23. March 2015.
Rapport Between Hungary & United States Improves
- 24 Mar 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Now that the US has a new ambassador in Hungary: Colleen Bell, you might ask if relations between Hungary and the US are changing. Sources that Heti Válasz have asked have confirmed that saying that Washington has become more pragmatic and Budapest is now more responsive to US interests in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks and Paks 2.
András Simonyi: Orbán Is Off Course & Heading Down The Wrong Track
- 23 Feb 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The first half of our interview with András Simonyi, Hungary’s former ambassador to NATO and the United States, was published on Thursday, February 19, 2015. The interview took place on Wednesday, February 18, the day after Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin paid an official visit to Budapest. Mr. Simonyi is presently managing director for the Center of Transatlantic Relations at the ...
Stratfor: Orbán Government Faces Its Most Difficult Year In Office Since 2010
- 10 Jan 2015 8:00 AM
- current affairs
In its analysis of Hungarian politics in the year 2015, the U. S. geopolitical intelligence and consulting firm Stratfor, founded by Hungarian-born political scientist George Friedman, the institute assesses the challenges to be faced by Viktor Orbán’s government in 2015. In the forecast, Stratfor claims that 2015 will be the administration’s most difficult year since the second Orbán cabinet ...
Hungarian Prosecutors Ask Ministry To Lift Goodfriend’s Immunity
- 23 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
Like a bad episode from the Twilight Zone, Hungarian prosecutors today asked the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Trade to lift US Embassy Chargé d’affaires André Goodfriend’s immunity from prosecution so that he can be tried in Hungary for defamation. Thanks to changes made to the criminal code under the current Fidesz-KDNP government, defamation is now a felony punishable with up to three years ...
Xpat Opinion: Hungary As A “Field Of Operation”
- 19 Dec 2014 12:00 AM
- current affairs
Paranoia seems to have swept through the Hungarian government. Fidesz politicians are convinced that the United States wants to remove Viktor Orbán and cause his government’s fall. All this is to be achieved by means of the “phony” charge of corruption.
US Entry Ban Against Hungarian Officials
- 15 Dec 2014 8:00 AM
- current affairs
The US chargé d’affaires responded to a request for information made by the public prosecutor on Oct. 27 and “no substantive information was forthcoming”, the prosecutor’s office said. It was confirmed, however, that the case concerned visas in connection with the US entry ban of several Hungarian officials, the details of which remain confidential, it added.


















