Hungary offers free IVF as population slumps
Hungary’s populist government says it will offer free in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment from February 1 in another attempt to try…
Tag: Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Central Europe ‘vulnerable’ to foreign meddling: report
The Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia are “particularly vulnerable” to influence from Russia, China and Turkey, according to a report…
Hungary priest condemns Orban’s ‘Christian’ claims
Pastor Gabor Ivanyi (pictured), president of the Hungarian Evangelical Fellowship, a small Methodist church which battled communism during the 1970s…
Populists in Poland and Hungary suffer setbacks
Sunday’s general election in Poland saw the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) lose control of the upper house and…
Orban ally loses Budapest mayoral race
Budapest’s newly elected liberal mayor, Gergely Karacsony (pictured), has celebrated a strong performance by the opposition in Hungary’s municipal elections,…
Hungary marks first Iron Curtain breach
Thirty years ago this week Hungarian border guards allowed hundreds of East German citizens to cross into Austria in the…
Macron blasts EPP rivals over Orban compromise
French President Emmanuel Macron has criticised the compromise reached by the European People’s Party (EPP) to suspend rather than expel…
Hungary takes on Brussels and Sweden in diplomatic showdown
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has backed Brussels in the escalating fight between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party and…
Orban tries to encourage Hungarian childbirth
Hungary’s populist prime minister, Viktor Orban, has promised to boost financial aid and subsidies for families to boost the population….
Hungary removes memorial to 1956 leader
A memorial to Imre Nagy (pictured), Hungary’s prime minister during the 1956 uprising against the Soviet occupation, has been removed…
Orban’s ‘slave law’ unites opposition
Hungary’s “slave law”, which could oblige staff to work up to 400 hours of annual overtime and wait up to…
Orban’s ‘slave law’ defies EU and protesters
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has brushed aside criticism from the European Union and introduced laws that the opposition say…
Budapest rally backs Soros university
The embattled Central European University (CEU) in Budapest has threatened to move most of its operations to Vienna if the…
Hungary to appeal against MEPs’ vote
The European Parliament has voted to sanction Hungary for flouting European Union rules on democracy, civil rights and corruption in…
MEPs due to vote on Hungary sanctions
MEPs are making their final arguments on whether Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s “illiberal” government should be subject to the…
Brussels begins legal action against Hungary
The European Commission yesterday (Thursday) sent a formal letter of notice to Hungary, the first step of an infringement procedure,…
- 1
- 2