Hungary’s Hungarian Competition Authority’s investigation into Google Ireland over phishing advertisements impersonating MBH Bank. Regulators said the available evidence was insufficient to determine whether Google’s monitoring systems failed to prevent the fraudulent ads from appearing.
Hungarian authorities have seized a record 522 kilograms of cocaine hidden among banana shipments from Ecuador, with the drugs estimated to be worth 15 billion forints on the black market. The discovery was made during a multinational investigation involving several European law enforcement agencies.
Hard-right, pro-Trump candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won a surprise first-round victory in Colombia’s presidential election on 31 May, ahead of left-wing senator Iván Cepeda Castro. President Gustavo Petro alleged fraud, while De la Espriella vowed to ‘defeat tyranny’ ahead of the 21 June run-off.
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.
‘Societies construct stories about themselves. During periods of predominance, success is often interpreted as evidence of universal principles or historical destiny. When material conditions change, these stories come under strain.’
‘In 2007, I met a Hungarian American businessperson at QU…We connected and developed what is today our Hungarian American Business Leaders (HABL) scholarship and program: bringing Hungarians to QU to earn their MBA and work at businesses, then return home, taking that knowledge back to put to the best use, as they see fit.’
In an open letter on the website Greek City Times, modern-day Greeks denounced the lack of actual Greek representation in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming movie The Odyssey. This is just the latest in a number of controversies surrounding the casting of the film which features black actress Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.
German right-wing activist Maximilian Märkl was detained at Munich Airport and banned from travelling to Portugal ahead of the upcoming Remigration Summit in Porto, with authorities arguing that the event promoted ‘right-wing extremism’. The incident fits into a broader recent pattern of European mainstream governments using legal and administrative measures to suppress anti-immigration voices.
A major new rare earth minerals agreement between US company REalloys and Greenland’s Tanbreez deposit has been made. It highlights Washington’s growing push to reduce dependence on Chinese supply chains. The deal also underscores Greenland’s increasing geopolitical importance to the Trump administration.
‘Amid increasingly intense Russian threats, Moscow often portrays its actions as previously restrained, even though the scale and frequency of attacks on Kyiv have already been persistently high. This is not a future scenario. This is the current reality of Kyiv.’
At a time when public debate is increasingly polarized and superficial, Hungarian Conservative remains committed to depth and independent thought.
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