BUDAPEST (Reuters) – The acquisition of Budapest Airport could conclude “within days”, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in parliament on Monday, signalling an end to months of negotiations with majority owner AviAlliance. Since Orban took power in 2010, his government has boosted Hungarian ownership in energy, banking, telecoms and the media, and has been planning […]
By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Tens of thousands protested against the government of Viktor Orban in downtown Budapest on Saturday, led by a lawyer formerly close to the administration who recently launched a political movement that aims to challenge the prime minister. Protesters marched to parliament in the unusually warm spring weather, some of […]
A rising challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban mobilised tens of thousands of supporters in Hungary’s capital on Saturday, outlining a plan to unite the country and bring an end to the populist leader’s 14-year hold on power. At the centre of the demonstration, the latest in a recent series of protests against Mr […]
(Bloomberg) — A rising star in Hungary’s opposition is set to lead the second mass protest in as many weeks in an effort to build grassroots support for a long-shot bid to challenge Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s rule. Most Read from Bloomberg Peter Magyar burst onto the scene after the resignation of two key Orban […]
(Bloomberg) — Viktor Orban chided Western powers for “meddling” in the affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina as the Hungarian prime minister received an award from a Russia-friendly Serb leader who has called for seceding from the Balkan nation. Most Read from Bloomberg Orban’s broadside, which was largely aimed at the High Representative, Christian Schmidt, comes two weeks […]
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Thousands of people protested in Budapest near parliament on Tuesday demanding the chief prosecutor and Prime Minister Viktor Orban resign after a former government insider accused a senior aide to Orban of trying interfere in a graft case. Protesters marched from the chief prosecutor’s office towards parliament shouting “Resign, resign”, with many […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A former Hungarian government insider turned oppositionist released an audio recording on Tuesday that he says is proof that top officials conspired to cover up corruption, the latest twist in a scandal that’s shaken Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s domination of the country’s politics. The country’s largest protests in years erupted in […]
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s populist prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his victory in an election that was criticized by most Western leaders. Orbán, widely seen as Putin’s closest ally in the European Union, sent the letter of congratulations to Putin on Thursday after the release of official election […]
Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has congratulated Russian President Vladimir Putin on his re-election. Orban’s spokesman Bertalan Havasi released the message on Thursday, the Hungarian state news agency MTI reported. Orbán wrote that it was gratifying that “the cooperation between Hungary and Russia is based on mutual respect, which makes it possible to discuss important […]
Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of late Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny, has described Hungary’s right-wing populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as an accomplice of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She made the comments in a video message shown at a large rally of opposition supporters in Budapest on Friday. “Be brave,” Navalnaya said, repeating one of […]
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he was ready to march to Brussels and “occupy” the European Union’s centre in order to “defend Hungary’s freedom and sovereignty”, ahead of European Parliament elections later this year. Orban, a nationalist who has been in power for 14 years, is hoping his Fidesz […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sought to mobilise support for his brand of right-wing populism in a speech urging people to help him “occupy Brussels” in European Union elections this summer. Mr Orban’s address, coinciding with a national holiday commemorating Hungary’s failed 1848 revolution against Habsburg rule, criticised the EU and – similarly to […]