Hungarian Minister of Agriculture István Nagy will open this year’s international non-GMO summit in Frankfurt. The focus of this year’s conference will be on the political debate surrounding new genomic techniques (NGTs).
The government decree limiting mobile phone use in schools was issued in early August and will take effect in September. According to a recent survey published on Wednesday, an overwhelming majority of Hungarians, 85 per cent, support the ban.
While posing as made-up personas for his new documentary Am I Racist?, conservative political commentator Matt Walsh of The Daily Wire was able to get in and conduct interviews at a woke group therapy session, and even at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois last week.
‘Christian realism is not unprincipled power politics or mere pragmatism, but the intelligent use of power and politics for the sake of representing Christian ideas and the common good (bonum commune), within the bounds of worldly political constraints.’
One of Hungary’s largest political festivals, Tranzit, took place again in Tihany over the weekend. Now in its seventh year, the event featured speeches by prominent government politicians such as Péter Szijjártó, Balázs Orbán, and Antal Rogán. While the festival primarily focused on the Hungarian economy, it also addressed crucial issues such as sovereignty, migration, and foreign policy.
‘We have to create a cultural environment where wokeness is marginalized as the lunacy that it is,’ Russian-British satirist Konstantin Kisin stated in an interview with Hungarian Conservative.
‘If we try to rewrite history, we’re going to get a wrong idea of why things went wrong and why things happened the way they happened,’ former Bild editor-in-chief Kai Diekmann remarked in an interview with Hungarian Conservative. In the discussion, Diekmann delved into the dangers of cancel culture, the state of media freedom in the Western world, and the importance of Viktor Orbán’s peace mission.
In an interview with the prominent Hungarian outlet Mandinder.hu, British political scientist and commentator Matt Goodwin talked about the perception of Prime Minister Orbán in the UK, the ‘liberal conservatism’ of the Conservative Party and its consequent electoral defeat, as well as the ‘ideological civil war’ brewing on the British right.
In a clip shared on X Interior Ministry State Secretary Bence Rétvári stated that Hungary is being punished for defending the EU’s external borders, and called the judgement by the European Court of Justice ‘obvious political pressure’ to coerce the country into letting in masses of illegal migrants and support Brussels’s war policies. However, he warned that an influx of mass migration can lead to riots like we see in the United Kingdom today.
According to the organizers, all topics that could help Hungary emerge as a winner in the current global systemic shift will be on the table in Tihany. Discussions will cover challenges to civilization, sovereignty, economic issues, and the state of European cooperation.
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