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Hungary’s leader is threatening to derail the EU summit. Can the French president save the day?

Hungary withheld support for Sweden's bid to gain NATO membership for twelve months before giving in. Why did it take so long?

In his new podcast, The Bold Truth About Hungary, State Secretary Zoltán Kovács discusses current affairs with his guests.

Hungary will have its biggest ever St Stephen’s Day weekend, with a 34 minute fireworks show, a folk arts festival, and a celebration of Hungarian cuisine.

Follow RT on By  Kevin Karp, commentator, screenwriter, and former political adviser in the House of Commons and the European Parliament. As an EU adviser based in Brussels and Strasbourg, he specialized in international trade, European populism, and Brexit. Find his website at moon-vine-media.com. With Frontex not operating in Hungary, and Greece asking Turkey to take back migrants, a core weakness of the border force has been revealed: political dilution of its mission is distancing...

Reporters Without Borders has updated its World Press Freedom Index, ranking Hungary three places lower than last year, and describing the state of Hungary’s media freedom as the EU’s “alternative, repressive model.” Government official Zoltán Kovács reacted to the ranking on Twitter, describing the NGO as a “Soros-funded group” that makes “false, idiotic claims.” The international non-governmental organization, known for highlighting levels of media freedom and criticizing ce...

Can Hungary still call itself a democracy? Al Jazeera English This week on UpFront Marc Lamont Hill challenges Hungary’s Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations Zoltán Kovács on the erosion of democratic standards under nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban. And in the Arena, Barbara Ransby, a professor of African American studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Jared Ball, a professor of communication studies at Morgan State Universi...

12 Feb 2021 Andras Lederer from the George Soros-backed Hungarian Helsinki Committee has called on the European Union to punish Hungary after accusing the country of engaging in migrant pushbacks in contradiction of a European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling. Mr Lederer criticised the European Commission for inaction over the alleged pushbacks along the Serbian border with Hungary, saying that the central European nation was acting in defiance of an ECJ ruling from December that stated that push...

The Future of US-Hungary Relations Under the Biden Administration Balázs Frei 2020.12.22. The Orbán government has a rocky relationship with Democratic U.S. leaderships. How might U.S.-Hungarian relations progress under the Biden Administration, and how will changes in the attitude of the White House to the international scene affect Hungary? A Rocky Relationship supported Donald Trump in the 2020 elections, and that they would really not like to have to deal...