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Deeply respected former West German chancellor Helmut Kohl has praised Hungarian leader and critic of mass migration Viktor Orbán and has announced plans to meet with him on April 19th. Revealed in a sympathetic profile in Bild yesterday to mark the former

In speeches on Hungary’s National Day, prime minister Viktor Orbán has lashed out at European leaders for inviting the “destruction of Europe” by causing the migrant crisis and has rejected European Union (EU) plans to resolve the situation. Warning “Europe will

Hungarian Minister of Interior Sándor Pintér announced in Budapest on Wednesday that Hungary is officially in a “state of emergency” because of the migrant crisis and has called up thousands of troops to the border with Romania. Announcing the deployment

Contents: Bizarre EU-Turkey one-for-one refugee deal meets strong opposition; Europe faces two additional major crises: Grexit and Brexit

Hungary is planning to cut cash and other subsidies for asylum-seekers, reduce the individual space they are allotted in detention centres to the size given prison inmates, and scrap measures designed to help them integrate into society, according to draft

The European Commission is planning to slap down Hungary’s decision to hold a referendum on compulsory migrant quotas, claiming that holding a democratic vote would not “fit into the decision-making process” agreed by European Union (EU) states. The quota system

Poland’s Foreign Minister has reacted forcefully to a plan by Italy to cut European Union (EU) funding for Eastern European countries that refuse to take in immigrants, calling the proposal “totally unjustified blackmail based on ignorance.” A week ago Italian

BERLIN, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban has said the European Union’s promise of money and other concessions for Turkey in return for preventing more people leaving its shores for Europe is an “illusion”. “We are begging

BRUSSELS, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Hungary has the right to organise a referendum on migrant quotas, Klaas Dijkhoff, migration minister for the Netherlands, which currently holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, said on Thursday. “Every country has the right to

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has this afternoon announced a referendum on the European Union’s (EU) mandatory migrant resettlement quotas, the first time they have been challenged in this way. The migrant quota system, which redistributes migrants from the most

The Hungarian government has procured hand guns and thousands of rounds of ammunition for the security forces who protect the national central bank, citing concerns over terrorism and immigration. The National Bank of Hungary is to receive 112 new handguns

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is continuing to fight his own rearguard action against both mass migration and the left-wing European establishment, calling illegal migrants “evil” and accusing Mrs. Merkel of creating instability. While the European Union (EU) and the

Addressing a private meeting of government members of parliament yesterday, uncompromising Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has accused Germany and Turkey of contracting a secret pact to flood Europe with an “unprecedented migrant tide”. According to details of the speech

Over 1,000 people have been arrested at the border of Hungary and Serbia and according to the Hungarian government the numbers of migrants attempting to cross illegally continues to grow. In spite of the controversial border fence – erected by

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No-nonsense Prime Minister of Hungary Viktor Orban has spoken out on the Europe migrant crisis, calling it a major security issue. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Bulgarian counterpart in Sofia, Mr. Orban blasted European cowardice in the

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(Reuters) – Two Britons were jailed on Friday after being arrested in Hungary where they were suspected of heading to Syria, in breach of strict travel constraints because they had convictions for terrorism offences. Trevor Brooks, 40, and Simon Keeler,

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a key ally of Warsaw’s conservative government, said Friday that Budapest would move to block any EU sanctions on Poland. “Hungary would never support sanctions against Poland,” Orban said in his weekly interview on public

WARSAW, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), on Wednesday, a party source said, in an apparent move to strengthen an emerging eurosceptic axis in

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Hungary has accused Austria of confusing “solidarity and stupidity” after Vienna said that nations which do not accept their share of refugees under European Union quotas should face sanctions. Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann had said that countries who did not

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has scrapped plans to erect a statue of Balint Homan, a former World War Two government minister who supported anti-Semitism in Hungary in the 1930s and 40s, after protests from Jewish leaders. The row over honouring

Jewish leaders have welcomed the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s decision not to support a statue honouring a fascist who helped facilitate the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said a

The European Union has started legal proceedings against several member states for breaching migrant rules during the summer as the continent struggled to cope with the migrant crisis. At the height of the migrant crisis in the three months between June

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has hit out at the European Commission, pledging to take it to court over its mandatory migrant quotas. His government filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Justice over the Commission’s plans to distribute

A senior Hungarian government official has said a Paris terror suspect — one of the “main organisers” of last month’s atrocities in which 130 were killed — “recruited a team” in Hungary among migrants passing through. Although not naming the

A mayor of a city in Hungary has accused Israel of being behind the terror attacks in Paris last month, but was quick to offer an apology after a recording of his comments was leaked to local media. Speaking during

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has listed George Soros’ non-governmental organizations (NGOs) Open Society Foundation and the Open Society Institute’s Assistance Foundation as “undesirable organizations.”

The action-man mayor of Hungarian frontier town Ásotthalom has invited “all active Europeans” to visit the border fence his government created, so they can learn how to protect their own countries. Praising the remarkable success of the Hungarian border fence, which

A Hungarian lorry driver has uploaded his expletive-laden rants as he drives through Calais, fending off migrants throwing bottles. The unidentified big-rig driver has uploaded a remarkable 15-minute dashboard cam video (full clip below) of his drive to the port of

Hungarian police say they have enhanced security measures for the country’s top public officials after six people were detained last week in two separate cases and a “bomb lab” was found.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has again hit out at Europe’s policy of mass migration, linking the latest terrorist atrocities in Paris to the European Union’s (EU) long standing immigration policies, and insisting that “all the terrorists are basically migrants… The question

The European Parliament’s tax payer funded liberal group is hosting their annual congress in the Hungarian capital with the express intention of destabilising the democratically elected right-wing government. Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a “dictator” and “the problem

Hungarian Police have detained two British Muslims just months after one of them stood trial, accused of attempting to join Islamic State. They are thought to have been on their way to Turkey and ultimately Syria, but will now be

The Hungarian foreign minister has accused a German colleague of having little conception of reality after he insisted the Paris attacks showed Europe should move to politically integrate more fully. German Federal Foreign Office minister of state Michael Roth made the comments