In a 5–4 decision, the US Supreme Court ruled that a Federal Judge in DC had no power to halt the deportation of 200 Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador, and the challenge should have been filed in Texas, where the illegal migrants were detained. However, the ruling also stressed that it does not address the constitutionality of using the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal migrants.
Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna of Estonia has called Hungary ‘a very weak country’ that is ‘part of Putin’s team’ in inflammatory statements made during a recent interview with the German paper Rheinische Post. He also reiterated his wish to strip Hungary of its voting rights in the Council of the EU.
In a new trend known as ‘nuisance streaming’, online content creators make a living by broadcasting themselves harassing strangers in public, typically in East Asian countries. However, perhaps the worst offenders of them all, Johnny Somali, is now facing serious criminal charges in South Korea and is likely to get significant jail time, in a case that profoundly angered the South Korean public.
Austria has closed down 23 of its border crossings with Slovakia and Hungary, while Hungary has established ‘disinfection points’ where members of its Defence Forces are disinfecting all vehicles entering the country. This is in response to the spread of foot-and-moth disease, a condition than only affects livestock and poses no danger to humans.
Director General of the Center for Fundamental Rights Miklós Szánthó has drawn attention to the hypocrisy that, while the European Parliament is not willing to even discuss revoking the immunity of Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar, who is charged with assault and theft, the EP has already revoked the immunity of two Polish conservative MEPs for standing up against the Tusk administration.
US Vice President JD Vance spoke at a celebratory screening for the documentary series Live Not By Lies, based on our very own Hungarian Conservative contributor Rod Dreher’s 2020 book by the same title, in Washington, DC on Tuesday. The film explores the ‘soft totalitarianism’ of the modern woke movement.
However, a ballot initiative calling for a state constitutional amendment requiring photo IDs for elections also passed in the important swing state of Wisconsin.
In his keynote address at Day 2 of the Danube Institute’s Family Formation Conference, Balázs Orbán emphasized that it is the responsibilities that we take on and our relationship with others that give meaning to our lives; and lauded the increase in marriages and decrease in abortions in Hungary since 2010. A panel discussion about crime, immigration, and the family followed.
Mr Palladino outlined the similar policies aimed at helping families by the Trump administration in the United States and the Orbán administration in Hungary. He also talked about ‘the American vibe shift’, by which he refers to how the current US administration is putting the cultural focus on families and childbearing again.
The Danube Institute’s two-day event dedicated to family formation has started with keynote addresses from Executive Director István Kiss; author and Budapest Fellow Helen Roy; Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, a descendant of the historic Habsburg family; and Minister for Culture and Innovation Balázs Hankó of Hungary.
Retired Hungarian footballer Zsolt Lőw has been appointed as the Head Coach of the German Bundesliga club RB Leipzig on a temporary basis until the end of the season. There, he will be coaching two Hungarian internationals: goalkeeper Péter Gulácsi and centre-back Willi Orbán.
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has held a joint press conference with Vatican Secretary for Relations with States Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, where he declared that both Hungary and the Vatican remain committed to pushing for peace in the Russo–Ukrainian war, and to helping persecuted Christians worldwide.
According to the report by the Times of Malta, the Hungarian OTP Bank is the most likely bidder to acquire HSBC Malta, a subsidiary of the British multinational banking and financial services company HSBC. HSBC Malta currently has a market cap of around €550 million.
Highlights of Hungary, the initiative that honours outstanding achievements by Hungarians in all walks of life, has held a celebratory event to officially kick off its 12th season. Just like in the years prior, five famous ambassadors will nominate their candidates for the awards that will be given out at the end of the season, in October this year.
Between 2016 and 2023 George Soros’ Open Society Foundations spent $90 million on funding Brussels, Belgium-based NGOs, a recently published study by the Center for Fundamental Rights has found. The spending accelerated in the year before the 2024 European Parliamentary election.
The 2024 election marked the fourth consecutive US presidential election where the popular vote margin was within five points—an unprecedented occurrence in US history. The last candidate to win the popular vote by more than 10 points was Republican Ronald Reagan in 1984. Why are US presidential elections so close in the 21st century?
President Tamás Sulyok of Hungary spoke at a gala at the Gergely Csiki Theatre in Kaposvár, Hungary on the Day of Polish–Hungarian Friendship, 21 March. President Andrzej Duda of Poland also made a speech at the event celebrating the historical great relationship between the two nations.
Walt Disney’s new live-action adaption of Snow White, starring Latina Actress Rachel Zegler, brought in just $86.1 million in revenue in its opening weekend worldwide, underperforming even the low end of projections. Given its massive production budget of $270 million, it is very likely to be a massive financial loss for the studio.
After losing the first leg 3–1 in Istanbul, Hungary had to endure an even bigger, 3–0 defeat in front of their own fans at the Puskás Arena in Budapest. Thus, Türkiye qualified for League A of the UEFA Nations League with 6–1 on aggregate, while Hungary has been relegated to League B after two seasons in the top division.
Tamás Menczer has warned in a Facebook post that due to military aid to Ukraine ‘the war has already cost every Hungarian family 2.5 million HUF, and Ukraine’s EU membership would cost millions more for each and every family’. The Hungarian government remains in stark opposition to having Ukraine become an EU Member State.
Hungary played Türkiye in the play-off for League A qualification in the UEFA Nations League next season, and lost 3–1 in the first leg in Istanbul. This was the 1,000th game of our men’s national football team. The rematch is on Sunday in Budapest.
According to the annual Wellbeing Barometer by Mária Kopp Institute for Demography and Families (KINCS), Hungarians rated their satisfaction level at 7.3 on a scale of one to ten in 2024. Married couples have reported themselves to be happier (7.7) than single people (6.6).
42-year-old Kendal Aaron Todd, a resident of St Lucie County, Florida, has been arrested for making bizarre threats against President Trump. In a short video clip uploaded to social media, he declared himself the President, called Trump the Antichrist, and even challenged him to ‘fight me naked to the death’.
Newly appointed State Commissioner responsible for the eradication of drug trafficking László Horváth has announced at a press conference that 3,500 Hungarian police officers had carried out concentrated raids at nearly a thousand locations nationwide, confiscating 300 kilograms (660 pounds) of illegal drugs.
At football games in multiple countries across Europe, Palestine-sympathizer football fans have been displaying the banner ‘Show Israel the Red Card’ to protest the Jewish state. Meanwhile, Hungary is hosting the Israeli national team again, lending them the venue in Debrecen to play their World Cup qualifiers against Estonia and Norway this month.
The Hungarian oil company MOL has announced that they discovered a new oil deposit 4,100 feet (1,250 metres) below ground in Western Hungary, near the village of Somogysámson. The deposit is able to produce up to 1,200 barrels of crude oil per day.
TV legend Chris Hansen, best known for his segment To Catch a Predator on Dateline NBC in the mid-2000s, has recently caught an illegal alien from Mexico trying to have sex with a 15-year-old sex traffic victim in his latest investigation. He went on Jesse Watters Primetime to talk about the outrageous case.
According to reporting by POLITICO, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of Hungary to have the Hungarian government lift its veto on the renewal of sanctions on Russia by the EU. Hungary eventually did refrain from using its veto power, and thus the sanctions have been renewed for another six months.
X user Inevitable West has posted about Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary’s new income tax exemption for mothers, also writing: ‘every European nation must do this.’ The post has received over 110,000 likes within 24 hours.
At a press briefing, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás of Hungary announced that the newly enacted price margin regulation by the Hungarian government, per which profit margins on each product sold by retailers are legally capped at 10 per cent, will come into effect on Monday, 17 March.