14+ hour, 30+ min ago   (505+ words) A growing cross-party consensus is emerging in the European Parliament in favour of taking a tougher approach toward China, according to MEP Pascal Canfin from the liberal French Renaissance Party who serves as the Parliament’s rapporteur on EU–China trade…...

15+ hour, 52+ min ago   (327+ words) Leaks from Viktor Orbán’s closed-door speech at the Fidesz gathering in Kötcse on Saturday, 12 September, suggest that the former prime minister has no intention of stepping back from the leadership of either his party or the broader Hungarian right. According…...

1+ day, 21+ min ago   (82+ words) This article was originally published in Vol. 6 No. 2 of our print edition. ‘Much of what Hungarian conservative politics was accused of applies much more to the green and left-wing Germany’ 2 Thomas Escritt, ‘Antisemitic Incidents in Germany Almost Double in 2024, Report…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (425+ words) Yet the anniversary also draws attention to another, far less obvious connection. Hungary, a country located thousands of kilometres from Ground Zero, appears repeatedly in the story of that day, and not only on the sidelines. ‘The man directing New…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (340+ words) The Foreign Ministry of Hungary is senselessly dismantling its network of career diplomats around the world without even ensuring that they will be properly replaced, former foreign economic attaché Ádám Pulay states, as reported by Hirtv.hu. Pulay recently resigned…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (318+ words) The legal arrangement, however, was apparently not an outright transfer of ownership, meaning that it was only rhetorically a gift. Hungary’s Agriculture Ministry said late Wednesday that the horses had gone to the Royal Mews under a loan agreement and…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (267+ words) Budapest’s districts most affected by the city’s social crisis are working together on proposals to address the situation, Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Thursday. Karácsony said on Facebook that he had held talks with the mayors of several districts about…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (475+ words) German Green MEP Daniel Freund is urging the European Commission to consider withholding EU funds from Saxony-Anhalt if a future AfD government is judged to violate EU values. The threat could affect billions allocated to one of Germany’s poorest regions,…...

4+ day, 23+ min ago   (339+ words) Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has said Ceuta and Melilla must prepare for migration as a permanent ‘structural reality’, more than a month after July’s mass invasion, which saw more than 80,000 illegal migrants storm the Spanish enclave, thousands of whom…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (415+ words) The European Commission on Wednesday proposed new legislation on affordable housing aimed at helping EU member states and cities address the housing crisis. According to the proposal, the legislation would create a clearer and more predictable framework for the EU…...