Hungary's parliament passed a law on Tuesday banning Pride events and allowing police to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, continuing a crackdown by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's right-wing populist party on the country's LBGTQ+ (...)
Hungary has agreed to drop its veto and allow the renewal of the sanctions that the European Union has imposed on more than 2,400 individuals and entities, mainly from Russia, in response to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The resolution (...)
"Hungary is isolated," European Council President António Costa declared on Thursday at the end of a special EU summit that saw Viktor Orbán block the approval of joint conclusions in support of Ukraine, forcing leaders to go ahead with an attached (...)
Emails containing a bomb threat were sent to multiple educational institutions in Hungary on Thursday morning, causing them to temporarily shut down out of precaution, the National Police Headquarters (ORFK) said.
The threats have affected at least (...)
Poland gears up to take over presidency of the European Union as the controversial Hungarian term comes to an end.
The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the 27 member states once every six months.
The country in the (...)
Romania and Bulgaria's shared journey to join the passport-free Schengen Area came to an end on Thursday morning as interior ministers from the European Union gave their final blessing to their hard-fought candidacy.
The momentous decision was made (...)
Mass protests in Georgia are about to enter their third week, with thousands of Georgians taking to the streets to demonstrate against the recent decision by Tbilisi to put EU accession talks on hold.
Protesters vowed to continue to demonstrate for (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to attack decision-making centers in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with the country's new ballistic missile, Oreshnik.
Putin was speaking hours after Russia launched a "comprehensive" strike on (...)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Friday that he would ignore an arrest warrant issued by the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Hungarian leader added that not only would he (...)
Thousands of police are being deployed in Paris to ensure security at Thursday's France-Israel football international, a week after violence in Amsterdam in which Maccabi Tel Aviv fans came under attack.
Paris police chief Laurent Nuñez said that (...)
Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in the Serbian capital on Monday, demanding the resignation of top officials after the deadly collapse of a concrete roof at a railway station which killed 14 people earlier this month.
Those rallying (...)
Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, calling him a "courageous man".
Speaking at an event in the Russian city of Sochi, the Russian president said that Trump was "hounded from all sides" during his first term in the (...)
The European Union has urged the Georgian authorities to "swiftly, transparently and independently" investigate reported irregularities in the parliamentary elections on Saturday. The closely watched poll saw the ruling party, Georgian Dream, win a (...)
Viktor Orbán and Ursula von der Leyen clashed head-on during a fiery debate at the European Parliament on Wednesday that saw both leaders portray opposing visions for Europe's future and lay bare their strong dislike for each other.
Russia's war in (...)
Israel carried out part of its device attack targeting Hezbollah by concealing explosives inside the batteries of pagers brought into Lebanon, according to two high-ranking Lebanese security officials, who said the technology was so advanced that it (...)
The European Union has stripped Hungary of the right to host the next meeting of foreign and defense ministers over its stance on the war in Ukraine.
It comes weeks after Hungary assumed the presidency of the Council of the European Union, a role in (...)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Beijing Monday, days after a controversial visit to Moscow and another to Kyiv that the far-right European leader described as a "peace mission."
Orban, who has been widely (...)
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ordered Hungary to pay a lump sum of €200 million over the country's long-standing restrictions on the right to asylum.
Additionally, Hungary will have to pay €1 million per day of delay. The money will be (...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hungary on Wednesday, marking the end of his five-day European tour.
His visit is set to solidify numerous agreements with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, further strengthening China's regional economic (...)
The red flags start at Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport and run all the way along the motorway into the center of Serbia's capital.
This is Serbia's way of showing that it is proud of its "ironclad friendship" with China – and welcoming Xi Jinping to (...)
The Hungarian government started a fresh round of anti-EU billboard campaigns ahead of the EU elections. Leading EU opposition figures are being portrayed as servants of the Commission, particularly President Ursula von der Leyen. In the firing line (...)
Thousands took to the streets of Budapest to protest after a former government insider turned critic released an audio recording embroiling top officials in Hungary in a conspiracy to cover up corruption.
Peter Magyar, the ex-husband of Justice (...)
European Union countries reached on Wednesday evening a hard-fought deal to boost and revamp military assistance to Ukraine. The agreement struck by ambassadors in Brussels will inject an additional €5 billion into the European Peace Facility (EPF) (...)
Donald Trump will not fund Ukraine's fight against Russia's invasion if he is elected US president again, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has said.
"He will not give a penny in the Ukraine-Russia war. That is why the war will end," the conservative (...)
Tamas Sulyok has been inaugurated as Hungary's new president after his predecessor stepped down following a child abuse scandal.
Sulyok, previously head of Hungary's Constitutional Court, was nominated as President by Hungary's ruling Fidesz (...)
