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Hungary's new sovereignty law could have "a chilling effect" on free and democratic debate in the country, a panel of constitutional law experts from the Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog ...
January 1 – Restrictions are lifted on the construction of new wind power plants [1]; January 15 – Construction of the Southern Ring Rail begins in Budapest. [2]January 27 – László Toroczkai says at a conference that his Our Homeland Movement would lay claim to a Hungarian-populated region in western Ukraine if the war led to Ukraine losing its statehood.
On 12 September 2018, the European Parliament voted for action against Hungary, alleging breaches of core EU values. [10] [11] UK Conservative MEPs supported the right wing Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán, against a motion to censure him in the European Parliament. [12]
Skyrocketing prices – Hungary has recorded the highest inflation in the EU for most of the last year, rising over to 20% for 11 months – have undermined consumer demand. In October, Hungarians ...
This was proposed by Hungarian politician Dóra Dúró, a member of the Our Homeland Movement party. [3] However, withdrawal from the EU is not popular among the Hungarian public. A 2016 poll revealed that 68% of Hungarians wanted to remain in the EU, while only 17% preferred to leave. [10] In 2020, support for the EU was even higher, with 85% ...
European Union ambassadors agreed a 15th package of sanctions on Russia over its war against Ukraine, targeting its shadow tanker fleet and Chinese firms making drones for Moscow, diplomats said.
As with any country, Hungarian security attitudes are shaped largely by history and geography. For Hungary, this is a history of more than 400 years of domination by great powers—the Ottomans, the Habsburg dynasty, the Germans during World War II, and the Soviets during the Cold War—and a geography of regional instability and separation from Hungarian minorities living in neighboring ...
In May, the EU relented to allow Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia to ban domestic sales of Ukrainian wheat, maize, rapeseed and sunflower seeds until 15 September, while allowing ...