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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, the full implementation of legislation and policies already in place provides a powerful arsenal to s...

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 member states. Additionally, he said, the resolutions require compliance with rules that “prohibit de...

Hungary's 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:  "Don't believe that we women must always compete with men. Don't believe that at every moment of our lives we must compare ourselves to others, and have at least the same positions and level of salaries as others."�...

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 chance to express their need for protection in unison, she said. Gál said she had turned to the Eur...

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 the agreement is a failure for the Orbán government.  At the EU summit this week, an agreement was ...