Alexandra Béni
Opposition Socialists, LMP condemn government tactics on land-sale revenues
Budapest, September 26 (MTI) – The opposition Socialist and LMP parties have joined forces to protest against a government bill on how revenue from the sale of state farmland should be used. They argue that instead of ploughing the money…
“Why did Hungarians become such Orbáns?”
According to mno.hu, two German newspapers published articles about Hungary in connection with the October 2 referendum on migrant quotas. The two papers, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) and the Bild am Sonntag, are quite popular opinion leaders in Germany.…
Szijjártó comments CETA, TTIP in talks with EU trade commissioner
Budapest, September 26 (MTI) – Hungary’s government will seek parliament’s position on the subject of a free trade agreement with Canada (CETA) before deciding on whether to support it, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Monday after talks with Cecilia…
UK to remain strong partner for Hungary after Brexit
Budapest, September 26 (MTI) – Great Britain will continue to build relations with its European partners, among them Hungary, after Brexit, Iain Lindsay, the British ambassador to Hungary, told the Hungarian parliament’s European affairs committee on Monday. Britain will build…
Croatia’s Hungarian community important for Hungarian government
Budapest, September 26 (MTI) – Preserving the Hungarian community in Croatia is an important objective for the Hungarian government, the state secretary for ethnic Hungarian communities abroad told a conference on Monday. Árpád János Potápi addressed the conference in Budapest…
Balog: Hungary against migration, not migrants themselves
Berlin, September 26 (MTI) – Hungary is not against migrants as individuals but rather against the global phenomenon of migration as a whole, Human Resources Minister Zoltán Balog told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview on Monday. Balog said the…
Hungarians won the International Video Mapping Competition – VIDEO
Szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu writes that the Hungarian Limelight video mapping circle of artists’ production won the iMapp Bucharest virtual 3D multimedia show last Saturday night. The video projections were screened on the second largest administrative building of the world in front of…
Committee head: Ideological motive unlikely behind weekend Budapest blast
Budapest, September 26 (MTI) – According to information available so far it can almost certainly be ruled out that the shrapnel bomb attack in central Budapest on the weekend was ideologically motivated, with no evidence pointing to a jihadist motive,…
Survey: Hungarians wary of renewed migration wave, terror attacks
Budapest, September 26 (MTI) – The vast majority of Hungarians are concerned that a new migration wave could hit Europe in the near future and that the continent could soon be struck by another terrorist attack, according to a fresh…
Fascinating Hungarian photo became NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day
According to vs.hu, the American space research office (NASA) chooses an outstandingly interesting astronomic photo every day. This is the so-called APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day) and Saturday’s winner photo was made by a Hungarian girl, Adrien Klamerius. “They…