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In their statement they recall events that took place in Poland in December 2023, days after the present centre-left government led by Tusk took power.
Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International Hungary, both long-standing critics of Orbán, questioned the process.
The Magyar government also wants to remove the sitting President and head of the Constitutional Court.
The controversy follows Péter Magyar’s demand earlier this year that Sulyok resign, after the president refused to step down.
The former Hungarian prime minister attacked EU migration policy, arguing that it has transformed a migration challenge into an integration crisis.
For the first time, the EU is negotiating membership with a country under invasion and a neighbour living in the war's shadow.
It applies retroactively to all tenures held after May 2, 1990.
Hungary has instead focused on physical border protection, including its southern fence.
Such a stance was one of the main reasons that his predecessor, Viktor Orbán, was in loggerheads with the EU.
The veto was originally imposed by former prime minister Viktor Orbán, who blocked progress on Kyiv's membership bid for two years.
The shift came during a meeting of ambassadors in Brussels, where the Hungarian representative signalled the withdrawal of objections.
The European Commission is preparing to release up to €17 billion in previously frozen EU funds to Hungary following the decisive electoral victory of pro-European…
Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has said his government would amend the constitution to remove President Tamás Sulyok.
"Only a few weeks have passed, but we can already feel a strong wind of change across Hungary," von der Leyen said.
New interior minister, Gábor Pósfai, said recently that Pride "must be made possible" in Hungary.
Hungarian Prime Minister arrives as the candidate the EU establishment promoted in Budapest.
Magyar has indicated Hungary would now act on ICC warrants against any individual, including Netanyahu.
Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok rejects Magyar's demand to resign by end of May.
His successor arrives in office as the figure Brussels had hoped for, and worked towards, well before Hungarians voted.
Orbán himself never moved into an official residence after returning to power in 2010, continuing to live with his family in his house on Cinege Street in Buda.
Budapest intends to allow "asylum applications" at its frontiers to bring an end to the EU's daily €1 million fines.
Hungary's new government will maintain its relations with Russia, the country's incoming foreign minister Anita Orbán has said.
Péter Magyar's pick for justice minister, Márton Melléthei-Barna, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the post.
Italian Prime Minister and Hungary’s newly elected Prime Minister met in what analysts see as an effort to preserve strong bilateral ties following Viktor Orbán’s…
Ukraine has got back cash and gold worth €70 million that had been confiscated by Hungarian authorities in March 2026.
An application has been submitted to Hungary’s National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH) for the launch of Szivárvány TV (Rainbow TV), which would…
The European Union preliminary approved a €90 billion loan to Ukraine after Hungary signalled it would lift its long-standing veto as oil started flowing through…
Hungary’s Prime Minister-elect Péter Magyar has stated that his country would be legally obliged to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters…
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has ruled that Hungary violated EU law after it banned the display and promotion of LGBT content to minors under…
I have just returned from Budapest.
