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Hungary demands money Norway ‘owes’ after Nordic nation suspends financial aid over NGO funding row

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Hungary’s government has criticized Norway after the Nordic country announced on Friday that it will refuse to pay €220 million ($259 million) in financial aid, due to Budapest’s failure to resolve a disagreement over NGO funding … Read More >Hungary demands money Norway ‘owes’ after Nordic nation suspends financial aid over NGO funding row

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Hungary’s PM condemns EU’s ‘ideological war’ after bloc seeks two-month delay to country’s recovery-plan talks

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Hungary’s Viktor Orban has accused the European Union of engaging in an “ideological war” after the bloc sought to delay talks over his country’s recovery plan, amid ongoing disagreement about Budapest’s new anti-LGBTQ+ law. … Read More >Hungary’s PM condemns EU’s ‘ideological war’ after bloc seeks two-month delay to country’s recovery-plan talks

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Orban announces mandatory coronavirus vaccine for Hungary’s healthcare workers and jabs for schoolkids

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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has announced that coronavirus vaccinations will become mandatory for healthcare workers, and children are to be vaccinated before returning to school, in a bid to boost inoculation rates. … Read More >Orban announces mandatory coronavirus vaccine for Hungary’s healthcare workers and jabs for schoolkids

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Hungarian prosecutors launch investigation into Pegasus scandal as Orban govt implicated in NSO surveillance allegations

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The Hungarian prosecutor general’s office has said it is opening an inquiry into possible criminal offences after a bombshell report claimed Viktor Orban’s government spied on the country’s media using Israeli surveillance tech. … Read More >Hungarian prosecutors launch investigation into Pegasus scandal as Orban govt implicated in NSO surveillance allegations

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Hungrexit? Polexit? Troublesome EU members are going nowhere as long as they can scupper bullying Brussels’ big spending dreams

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Punishing Hungary and Poland for pursuing conservative values will not give Brussels the result it is seeking and legal threat is likely to make the two outliers even more determined to show they won’t be pushed around. … Read More >Hungrexit? Polexit? Troublesome EU members are going nowhere as long as they can scupper bullying Brussels’ big spending dreams

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Hungary’s Orban slams ‘legalized hooliganism’ of EU over infringement action against LGBT propaganda law

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Speaking on his country’s state radio on Friday, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban decried the European Commission’s infringement action against his government’s LGBT propaganda law as “legalized hooliganism.” … Read More >Hungary’s Orban slams ‘legalized hooliganism’ of EU over infringement action against LGBT propaganda law

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The EU-Hungary row over an anti-LGBTQ law is a clash of cultures that underpins why European integration will never work

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Hungary’s controversial law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors is none of the EU’s business, and Brussels’ attempts to interfere in its internal affairs with a sense of moral superiority is akin to neo-colonialism. … Read More >The EU-Hungary row over an anti-LGBTQ law is a clash of cultures that underpins why European integration will never work

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Tying coronavirus recovery funds for Hungary to its contentious law against LGBT propaganda ‘will ruin EU’ – Budapest

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EU money intended to help member states recover from the Covid pandemic should not make Hungary a hostage by being withheld over Budapest’s controversial LGBT law that was slammed by Brussels, a top official in Hungary has said. … Read More >Tying coronavirus recovery funds for Hungary to its contentious law against LGBT propaganda ‘will ruin EU’ – Budapest