Tag: Victor Orban
World 05.11.21 | 17:09

Orban: If you need migrants, take them

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has offered to open westward corridors for refugees and migrants through his country if the West so desires. If you need them, take them, he said in a radio interview on Friday. He also said he believed that the various coronavirus variants were being brought in...

World 08.08.21 | 11:35

Orban orders restrictions on children’s books with gay themes

Hungarian authorities have ordered shops to wrap children’s books that depict homosexuality in a positive light in closed packaging as the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán doubles down on his fight with civil rights campaigners and the European Union. Under a decree published Friday, stores...

World 05.03.21 | 16:21

Hungary to tighten pandemic restrictions as new infections hit record

Authorities in Hungary are tightening pandemic restrictions in an effort to mitigate a rapid rise in deaths and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19. Businesses will be required to close their doors for two weeks beginning Monday, with only grocery stores, pharmacies and gas stations permitted to remain...

World 05.03.21 | 13:23

Orban: It’s time for a new European right

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban set out to build a new alliance of right-wing European parties after he pulled Fidesz from the European People’s Party (EPP), the center-right group in the bloc’s parliament. Our task is clear. Now without the EPP we must build a European democratic right,...

World 26.11.20 | 10:53

Orban: Europe must not succumb to the Soros network

Europe must not succumb to the Soros network, said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a reaction to an article appearing on the Project Syndicate website on 18 November, where the Hungarian-born speculator and billionaire George Soros issued open commands to the leaders of the European Union. In...

World 17.10.19 | 12:11

Orban: If Turkey opens gates for regufees, we would have to use force at border with Serbia

Hungary would have to use force at its southern border with Serbia to protect the European Union’s frontier if Turkey delivers on a threat to open the gates for refugees through the Balkans towards Europe, Hungary’s Prime Minister Victor Orban said. Orban said currently there were about 90,000...

World 03.03.19 | 18:36

Those in the EPP seeking my party’s ouster are useful idiots

Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán called those in the European People’s Party seeking his party’s ouster from the group “useful idiots”. Viktor Orban’s comments to Germany’s Welt newspaper Sunday come after calls within the center-right European People’s Party for...

World 25.01.19 | 14:07

Orban: It is obvious that Soros wants to capture the European institutions

On Kossuth Radio’s “Good Morning, Hungary” programme on Friday, Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban said George Soros is increasing his influence in the European institutions. “Soros has reliable allies in the European Parliament. It is obvious that Soros wants to capture the European institutions,”...