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Think tank linked to Budapest government wants former US president to pay a visit

Orbán's 11-year tenure as head of govt has been one of the most successful periods in Hungary's history as a democratic country, David Cornstein wrote.

URL copied to clipboard As Donald Trump leaves office, the place that has come to symbolise Brand Trump is Mar-a-Lago – his 20-acre, 128-room private members’ club in Palm Beach, Florida. With much of the Trump business empire heavily indebted and losing money, Mar-a-Lago is one of its few genuine cash cows. According to the Government Accountability Office, the US taxpayer has paid $1m a day for each of the days Trump has spent at Mar-a-Lago. “How much US taxpayers’ money was spent on ‘non-security improvements’ to Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s Bedminster [another private members'...

US President-elect Biden Nominates Orbán Critic to be CIA Director Joe Biden, president-elect of the United States, has nominated William Burns to be the director of the CIA. Burns, having served under the Bush Administration as well as the Obama Administration, is known to be a major critic of Viktor Orbán. US-Hungarian relations are standing on increasingly shaking ground with the nomination of William Burns as CIA director. Burns is known to have strongly criticized Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian administration. He has also criticized former US ambassador to Hun...

Ceu president says while cornstein publicly vowed to help the university in its dispute, privately he quickly capitulated to orban. >> why would he be unwilling to push for an issue that's so clearly in american interests? >> i don't understand to tell you the truth, but somehow i think mr. cornstein began to think, huh, this is a liberal institution. i'm closer to a conservative like orban than i am the ideals of the institution. and what's disturbing about that is that shouldn't be the issue. >> reporter: for the government here, his appointment has been a gift bringing hungary back into the...