Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2025 has just kicked off, with US Vice President JD Vance headlining the first full day of the event. Besides Vance, political director of the Hungarian prime minister Balázs Orbán also took to the stage on Thursday. The conference will conclude with US President Donald Trump’s speech on Saturday.
Western European leaders were quick to rally behind Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Donald Trump called him a dictator. However, those same leaders remained completely silent when, almost exactly one year ago, former US President Joe Biden accused Viktor Orbán of building a dictatorship in Hungary
According to a recent poll by CBS News, 2 percentage points more people identify as Republican in the United States than Democrat. By comparison, when President Trump was starting his first term in 2017, Democrats had a five-point edge over the GOP in the same survey.
According to recently released data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), 29 per cent fewer new apartments were built in Hungary in 2024 than in the year prior. The total number of new apartments built was 13,295 in the country last year.
On 18 February 2025 Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Hungary at the invitation of President of the Republic of Hungary Tamás Sulyok. According to Sulyok, a strong Israel is essential both for the fight against antisemitism and for a secure future for the Middle East and Europe. The Hungarian head of state emphasized that there is an ongoing dialogue between Hungary and Israel and that there are no problematic issues.
The first two of the ten episodes of the new historical drama series Rise of the Raven will air on TV2 at 8pm on 8 March. The show centres around John Hunyadi, a military leader and statesman in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century, who was a key figure in fighting back against the Ottoman invasion of Europe.
‘Mr Khan also took the unusual step of convening a “panel of experts” in January 2024 “to support the evidence review and legal analysis” related to the Gaza case. After this, he announced his pursuit of arrest warrants as the panellists unanimously recommended that he do so. However, it seems that the outcome was already determined beforehand.’
Prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, about two-third of Germany’s eight brigades were combat-ready. According to Head of the German Armed Forces Association Colonel Andre Wuestner, that figure has declined to roughly 50 per cent due to the export of weapons and equipment to Ukraine.
‘As of now most critical minerals originate from China, which controls about one third of the world’s total rare earth metal reserves. The attempt to invest into the Ukrainian mine industry is widely seen as an effort to diversify supply chains amid rising competition between Washington and Beijing.’
‘After passing all the tests to make sure that we were neither sick nor communists or spies, they let us go on the condition that we had a sponsor. We were sponsored by the Catholic Family Services in Amarillo, Texas, with whom we had no previous connection. When we arrived, with the organization’s help, my husband got a job within three days…’
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