Eight energy infrastructure projects to be implemented in Hungary have been included on the EU’s latest list of Projects of Common Interest, a move expected to strengthen energy security and support stable household energy costs, according to Hungarian MEP András Gyürk.
‘Venezuela has become a stress test. And Europe’s response has exposed both its instincts and its inhibitions.’
In a recently published analysis, POLITICO Brussels calls Hungary’s 2026 election the EU’s ‘most important’, while admitting that Brussels is invested in Viktor Orbán’s defeat. The piece frames Péter Magyar as a credible challenger and highlights how the EPP and Renew have embraced Tisza to ‘secure influence over Budapest’—as EU pressure on Hungary continues to mount.
Hungary’s governing Fidesz–KDNP alliance would secure 49 per cent of the vote among committed party supporters if elections were held this Sunday, maintaining an eight-point lead over the Tisza Party, according to a new nationwide poll.
Dutch right-wing commentator Eva Vlaardingerbroek has been barred from entering the United Kingdom days after criticizing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on X. According to a notice she shared, her UK ETA was cancelled from 13 January because her presence ‘is not considered to be conducive to the public good,’ leaving her with no right of appeal.
Canadian conservative philosopher Gad Saad has announced the launch of his sixth book, Suicidal Empathy: Dying to be Kind, now available for pre-order. In the book, Saad argues that ‘empathy politics’ has become a destructive force in the West, inverting moral priorities by protecting criminals over victims and privileging illegal migrants over citizens in the name of compassion.
The US arrest of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has sparked global controversy over sovereignty and interventionism. Budapest-based Mathias Corvinus Collegium organized a high-level panel featuring Venezuelan opposition figure Alejandro Peña Esclusa to examine the operation’s impact on Venezuela, as well as its regional and international implications.
In a short Facebook video, Director General for the Center for Fundamental Rights Miklós Szánthó has revealed the exact date when CPAC Hungary 2026, the fifth installation of the Hungarian version of the world-famous conservative conference, will take place this spring.
Swedish journalist Isabelle Eriksson says the Minnesota Somali fraud scandal is not an American exception but a familiar model she has investigated in Sweden: taxpayer-funded associations, phantom programmes, fake staff identities, and millions disappearing without consequences.
Marine Le Pen returns to court on 13 January as her appeal trial gets under way, challenging a conviction that bars her from holding public office for five years. At the centre of the case is whether the sanction is proportionate to the offence she was found guilty of.