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While the govt thinks a new data table shows Eastern vaccines are better than the western one opposition parties believe they only want to manipulate people

Hungarian MEPs were divided in their views on the state of media freedom in Hungary in a European Parliamentary debate on Wednesday, with ruling Fidesz slamming what it calls a “smear campaign” against the government, and the opposition decrying “the end of media plurality” in the country. Addressing the debate on the state of media freedom in Hungary, Poland and Slovenia, Vera Jourová, the European commissioner for justice, consumer protection and equal opportunities, criticised the c...

Liberal Klubrádió will be silenced, after a Court rejected an appeal by the radio station against the media authority's decision not to renew its license.

Following the prison sentence of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny who was sent to prison for more than two and a half years on Tuesday, many Hungarian opposition politicians spoke up and condemned the verdict while also criticizing the Orbán government for not commenting on the incident. Expressing support for Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is a “moral obligation, just like it is an obligation to protect Russian democracy and the freedom of publicity, based on our commo...

Jobbik Leader Jakab to Run in Pre-selection Vote for Opposition PM Candidate Jobbik leader Péter Jakab announced he would run in the pre-selection process to determine who will become the joint opposition parties’ candidate for Prime Minister at the upcoming 2022 general elections. Jobbik is the first party of the joint opposition to nominate their candidate for the pre-selection vote. Péter Jakab announced to become Jobbik’s nominee for the pre-selection process in his annual evaluation ...

Despite more than one million signatures collected across Europe, the European Parliament’s and the Bundestag’s backing of the Minority SafePack citizens’ initiative urging EU protection for indigenous national minorities in the bloc, the European Commission eventually rejected it.  According to the EC’s Friday statement, a wide range of measures had been taken to address the issues outlined in the initiative since it was launched in 2013. “While no further legal acts are proposed, t...

The gradual, “relentless” implementation of the “Soros plan” is continuing with the cooperation of the European and Hungarian left wing, Tamás Deutsch, who heads the delegation of governing Fidesz in the European Parliament, said at a press conference in Budapest on Saturday. Deutsch said that according to two EP resolutions on migration, immigration, including illegal immigration, is a fundamental human right, and immigrants arriving in the European Union must be distributed among mem...

Hungarys minister for families tells women not to expect the same salaries as men Subscribe Women should not believe they must compete with men for equal positions or equal pay, according to a video featuring family affairs minister Katalin Novák released Monday on the website Axióm. In the video, titled "How can a woman be successful?", Novák instructs women what not to do:  "Dont believe that we women must always compete with men. Dont believe that at every moment of our lives we must com...

The European Commission should take specific steps to support the continent’s ethnic minority groups, Hungary’s MEPs said in a European Parliamentary debate on Minority SafePack, an initiative urging EU protection for indigenous national minorities in the bloc, on Monday. Kinga Gál, an MEP for Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party, said in a statement that it was time to guarantee the protection of minority rights at European level. The initiative gives the bloc’s national minority groups the ...

On Thursday, the European Council accepted the EU’s budget for the 2021-2027 financial cycle and its Next Generation EU recovery fund. Regarding the rule-of-law provision in the document, the summit added a clause stating that the mechanism can only be triggered if a member state’s actions harm EU financial interests. According to Viktor Orbán and other government members, the decision is a victory for Hungary, as the country can preserve its sovereignty, while the opposition thinks that t...