While pressuring President Tamás Sulyok to resign, Prime Minister Péter Magyar has also called for the resignation of the heads of two public media companies. The demands followed reports by RTL that leaked emails from public broadcasters showed a news director instructing staff to cover stories damaging to Magyar’s Tisza Party.
How did Hungarians view the United States in the 1980s? What were the US-related policies of the Orbán governments? Will the new Hungarian government be as significant to the United States as the Orbán government was? We asked a former Hungarian foreign minister about the past, present, and future of Hungarian–American relations, including their ups and downs and their often turbulent nature.
‘Louis created a state union between the two countries; he did not unite them, and he left the structure of Poland intact…Thanks to the common ruler, the two states did not compete but supported each other militarily and economically. A new kind of power structure was born.’
As global development aid declines amid mounting geopolitical and economic pressures, Central European countries may need to rethink how assistance is delivered. Closer regional coordination, targeted ‘pilot projects’, and partnerships in regions such as the Sahel could help smaller European states preserve influence, build soft power, and shape a distinct model of development cooperation.
The withdrawal process which had originally been initiated by the Orbán government seen by many as a gesture to Netanyahu.
Hungary’s new government has proposed revoking nearly one thousand diplomatic and service passports issued under the previous Fidesz administration after completing a review of non-automatic allocations, government spokesperson Vanda Szondi announced on Wednesday. The move also forms part of the Tisza government’s broader effort to overhaul Hungarian diplomacy and foreign policy.
The war in Ukraine is reshaping European military doctrine and accelerating discussions about a more autonomous European Defence Union built around deeper defence integration and Ukrainian strategic expertise.
Donald Tusk and the Civic Coalition suffered a major symbolic defeat after voters in Kraków overwhelmingly backed the recall of liberal Mayor Aleksander Miszalski. The result also highlighted growing right-wing cooperation between PiS and Konfederacja ahead of the 2027 parliamentary election.
BBC Hungary is set to launch in June following the British broadcaster’s announcement on 22 May, marking a symbolic re-entry into the country only weeks after the electoral defeat of former prime minister Viktor Orbán. BBC and Orbán frequently clashed over the past 16 years, with conservative circles accusing the broadcaster of biased reporting and systematically targeting right-wing governments around the world.
Former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party on Friday launched a nationwide legal and activist network called Védvonal (‘Defence Line’), claiming conservatives face growing harassment and ‘liberal terror’ under the new Tisza government. Critics dismissed the initiative as an attempt by Fidesz to recast itself as a persecuted movement after 16 years in power.
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