In addition to meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv alongside other European leaders, Katalin Novák spent the weekend visiting ethnic Hungarian settlements in Transcarpathia.
Apparently, Russia’s air offensive is trying to split Ukrainian resources, while there is increasing pressure on the Russian troops in the south of Ukraine. However, a series of attacks on the power network may bring the Ukrainians to the negotiating table if life in the country becomes completely unbearable during the winter.
The Paks nuclear power plant currently prevents the emission of 14.5 million tons of carbon dioxide per year, and with the expansion, this will increase by another 17 million tons. In addition, about four billion cubic metres less natural gas will have to be used per year.
Twenty-two years have passed since the end of the last Yugoslav war. Two decades may be enough to rebuild a country, but the memories of the war and the wounds it caused are still present and will be present for a long time to come in the still unstable Balkans.
Budapest’s iconic Hauer cake shop announced this month that due to the negative impact of the economic environment on the catering industry they were forced to close.
Hardly a week passes by without news breaking that some church leader, in some cases even contradicting the official teaching of their own church, publicly endorses the LGBTQ+ ideology.
To the consternation of the left and liberal members of the chamber, but accompanied by the clapping of like-minded representatives, Legutko stated that the European Parliament has abandoned its basic function of representing people and has instead turned into a ‘machine to implement the so-called European project, alienating millions of voters.’
Iranians, however, must continue protesting, knowing that never before in its history has the Islamic regime been so vulnerable. As it happened in the Soviet Union, citizens’ dissidence in Iran can achieve victory, too.
In his remarks at CPAC México, Minister of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás stated that Hungary represents the hope of the conservative bloc in the free world.
According to Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Hungary and Iran are working on establishing bilateral economic ties within the framework of a pragmatic and common-sense approach.
The American left is outraged that President Trump’s Twitter account was reinstated by Elon Musk. This is a good moment to remind it that in a democracy, freedom of speech should not be defined by the arbitrary rules of the professionally offended.
The liberal representative believes that the European Union would be ‘better off’ if Hungary was replaced by the warring state of Ukraine.
Essentially, it seems that in liberal feminist circles, a conservative female leader is worthless, as someone who by definition cannot represent women’s issues and who actually suppresses women.
Hananya Naftali stressed that today Hungary is one of the safest countries in the world for Jews and Israel sees Hungary not just as a partner, but as family.
While the bloc claims that it is doing more and more to cut emissions, looking at the data, environmentalists are not convinced.
Is it a wise move to put all our eggs in the electric basket and expose the whole European car industry to that risk? As opposed to the present monocultural love affair with EVs, the industry, the regulatory environment and subsidies should instead move towards diversification.
Citing security reasons, Gulyás did not disclose information about when or who will be making an official state visit to Ukraine but said he was aware of a visit being planned.
Every minor detail of Europeans’ lives is being discussed in Brussels, except faith. Hölvényi called this an ‘ontological absurdity’, given spirituality’s central place in human consciousness. Eastern Europeans can at least blame communism for this, but Western nations let religion be banished from public life on their own accord.
During a joint press conference with his Romanian colleague, Szijjártó reminded that the strategic partnership agreement with Romania was signed 20 years ago and stressed that keeping it in place is in the best interest of both Romania and Hungary.
At the opening event of MCC Brussels, Balázs Orbán said: ’As neighbours, we need to talk and listen. This is the only antidote to the spectre of political polarization that haunts politics today.’
According to Professor Mearsheimer, Hungary has been affected both by US-Russia and the US-China conflict.
During her recent trip to Paris, President Katalin Novák met with President Emmanuel Macron and former French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
According to Mearsheimer, as Ukraine was becoming a de-facto NATO member, Russia launched a preventive war in February.
Hardships do not promote solidarity; they only serve to apply more federalist and progressive pressure on cornered nations. As Saint-Just proclaimed during the French revolution, ‘there is no freedom for the enemies of freedom’, today the ruling elite says: ‘There is no rule of law for the enemies of the rule of law’.
As opposed to the idealists, Hungarians speak the language of realism well, Balázs Orbán opined, adding that the country has had a realist international politics for a thousand years.
Due to the energy crisis, high gas prices and the reduction in the availability of Russian sources, infrastructural developments that make alternative sources available to the region are once again booming in Europe.
If the West and the Vatican came together and publicly condemn the Islamic Republic of Iran for its crimes, it would not just be in the interest of Iranian citizens but the entire Middle East region. And the time to act is now.
Politicians of the Republican Party would like to see the belligerents to come to an agreement as soon as possible and the bloodshed that has been going on for eight months to finally come to an end.
‘Support for Ukraine has evolved into the defining issue in debates over national identity as pro-European Union coalition governments increasingly define themselves against populist opposition parties.’
Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó reaffirmed Hungary’s position that member states have a sovereign right to determine what energy carriers they acquire and in what quantities, from whom, and based on what price formula, following a summit of EU energy ministers at the end of October.
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