News Hungary Government: Hungary backs Trump on asylum crackdown as it touts its own border success
Hungary is backing President Trump in his crackdown on migrants claiming asylum at the southern border -- as the government touts its own success in drastically reducing the influx of migrants into the country.
News Hungary Government: Hungary's budget is looking extremely good
Rather, we see the start buy-back auctions in eurobonds decreasing the FX share of the public debt and/or cutting the supply of Hungarian government bonds as we get closer to the year-end. ...
News Hungary Government: Hungary's far-right government passes law that lets it take over scientific research bodies
Hungary‘s far-right government has passed a law allowing the state to tighten its control over scientific research bodies. The law strips the 200-year-old Hungarian Academy of Sciences of its network of 15 research bodies and hands them over to a committee. The committee’s chairman will be appointed by Viktor Orban, the Hungary’s nationalist prime minister, and half of its
News Hungary Government: Hungarian government passes bill tightening state grip on scientists
BUDAPEST — Hungarian lawmakers passed legislation on Tuesday to tighten state control of research bodies run by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA), overriding protests against the latest ...
News Hungary Government: Hungarian government takes control of research institutes despite outcry
After months of struggle between Hungary’s research ministry and its scientific community, the nation’s parliament ratified a law on 2 July that gives the government control over the 40 or so ...
News Hungary Government: Romania, Hungary trade barbs after scuffles at war cemetery
Romania and Hungary traded barbs Friday after scuffles broke out at a cemetery in Transylvania, amid tensions between Romanian nationalists and the region's minority ethnic-Hungarians. A Romanian police spokesman told AFP that a criminal investigation had been opened into Thursday's scuffles
News Hungary Government: Budapest boat crash puts focus on Hungary's tourist boom
A disaster waiting to happen. That's how many in Budapest describe the deadly crash between a small sightseeing boat carrying South Korean tourists and a much larger cruise ship on the Danube River last week.
News Hungary Government: Scientists in Hungary accuse government of research takeover
Hungary’s oldest and biggest scientific institute accused the government on Wednesday of trying to take “total political control” of vital research through plans to set up a new state body to oversee funding and work.
News Hungary Government: Right of reply from the Hungarian government
According to the opinion piece published by the EUobserver June 6, the Orban government is waging a concerted effort to capture the media. "Media capture," claims Harlan Mandel, "is when governments ...
News Hungary Government: South Korea: Emphasis should be on identifying those responsible for Hungary boat sinking
"[Hungarian authorities] are investigating the case ... RELATED U.S. Seventh Fleet deploys Coast Guard ship near North Korea Earlier in the day, Kang presided over a government disaster management ...
News Hungary Government: Hungary and Serbia have found new ways to smother the media
Hungary’s Fidesz has perfected the use and abuse of market forces to take over media and extend its political power. At the end of 2018, government-friendly business executives offered their holdings, ...
News Hungary Government: Hungarian government submits bill to tighten grip over scientists
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary’s government is moving to tighten its grip on the research institutions of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, despite protests by scientists against political control of ...
