Since Donald Trump took office, American authorities have toughened their stance, systematically detaining and then deporting illegal immigrants.
They are taking Lázár’s ministry to court, which will have to decide whether it was lawful for the Hungarian side to force its minority business partner into submission through sheer power.
Leaders bear immense responsibility as humanity may be facing the most crucial decisions in its history – says Yuval Noah Harari, one of the most celebrated historians of our time. Among other topics, we discussed why he considers the advent of artificial intelligence a much greater threat than African immigrants crossing the Mediterranean, what technological revolutions await politics, warfare, and religion, as well as how Europe can avoid becoming an American or Chinese colony.
Dorothea Hotel Plc., founded to manage the luxury hotel of the Tiborcz empire, was strengthened at the end of the year with a capital increase of nearly 1.5 billion forints. They did not respond to our question regarding why this step was necessary or whether the capital injection served to cover losses, but it is evident that the majority of the sum came from a private equity fund replete with public money.
De Gaulle has returned – and this time, he is German.
The previous world order has come to an end. In the new one, all that matter are brute force, power, and money, writes the former president of the Hungarian National Bank.
The Minister of Defence first purchased the former Tölgyes Manor with a panoramic view of Lake Balaton, then a few months later acquired Nagy & Nagy Winery along with its associated facilities. The press department of the Ministry of Defence responded to our inquiries with a single sentence.
Based on opinion polls, we examined how the Hungarian party system has shifted since Katalin Novák was brought down by the clemency scandal a year ago.
Ildikó Rizsák is simultaneously the mayor, general practitioner, institution director, football club president, EU fund distributor, and local association president in Nyírbogát – sometimes both her own boss and benefactor, she is last but not least also the wife of Fidesz MP Miklós Simon. She believes that her holding multiple positions saves the town money.
The EU should launch an infringement procedure against Hungary for failing to comply with the European Arrest Warrant in the case of former Polish Deputy Minister Marcin Romanowski, whom the Orbán government has granted asylum — said Michal Wawrykiewicz, Polish MEP and rule of law official for the European People's Party (EPP) faction, in an interview with 24.hu.
Rural ambulance units can be summoned to the capital not only in a planned manner but also unexpectedly.
The rise of Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party has redrawn Hungary’s political map, while Fidesz must also find a way to fix Hungary’s struggling economy. The foreign policy situation may offer Viktor Orbán some consolation, but his allies could also deliver unpleasant surprises.
After fully admitting to the charges against him in court, the seventh richest Hungarian entrepreneur was fined 250 million forints due to budgetary fraud.
The Hungarian government is counting on Donald Trump to solve more and more of its issues, which could be problematic in itself, but the question remains: what more can we expect beyond this?
Recent reports from China describe concerns about human metapneumovirus, which has led to discussions about dangerous diseases, overburdened hospitals, and potential pandemics. However, experts urge calm, noting that such situations should be closely monitored but not cause undue alarm.
Hundreds of millions of losses to be found around the doctor who has appeared in the PM's entourage during his Indian vacation.
The prosecutor’s office reached an agreement with only one defendant, Anita H in the corruption case spanning multiple ministries. The grant writer was convicted on the first day of the trial and received a reduced sentence in accordance with the plea bargain. Anita H. declared minimal assets in court. However, 24.hu identified several high-value – partly foreign – properties that the defendant had concealed from the court.
The Hungarian government is spending an increasing amount of money on boosting its foreign political influence, allocating billions of euros for lending to high-risk-rated Balkan and African countries – such as Chad and the Republic of Maldives – and providing loans to a privileged circle of companies, the so-called national champions, to support their expansion. The interest rate on the loan granted to North Macedonia is barely more than half of what the state-owned Eximbank secures its funds for, meaning that the consolidation of the Balkan country – governed once by the party of former Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, who fled to Hungary in 2018 – is partly borne by Hungarian taxpayers.
We found Tamás Menczer's name on the contracts for ventilator procurements from the time of the coronavirus pandemic — according to the documents, he was entrusted with a significant responsibility.
The government, citing national economic interest of special importance, plans to lease the properties of major Budapest railway stations to private entities for 99 years. According to MÁV (Hungarian State Railways), further consultations are expected to finalise the concepts. While the Municipality of Budapest is studying the development plans, Dávid Vitézy is ringing the alarm.
According to the president of the Hungarian Trade Union Confederation (MASZSZ), as long as the target figures set in the wage agreement are met, and
Péter Magyar’s party is the most popular opposition force, leading far ahead of Viktor Orbán’s other challengers, and in fact, there are surveys suggesting it has already overtaken the governing party. Nevertheless, outside of Budapest, Tisza Party’s concrete, local presence (beyond Péter Magyar's appearances) is scarcely felt at the level of party organisations.
Due to the crisis in the European automotive industry, Hungarian multinationals may officially begin workforce reductions.
Tisza is not running, and nothing threatens Fidesz’s two-thirds majority. Stakes are so low in the staunchly Fidesz-supporting Dombóvár district that even the ruling party will struggle to mobilise voters on a frosty January Sunday, not to mention the opposition.
