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Hungary's Orbán presents a new alliance with Austrian and Czech nationalist parties
VIENNA (AP) — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Sunday presented a new alliance with Austria's far-right Freedom Party and the main Czech opposition party, which hopes to attract other partners and become the biggest right-wing group in the European Parliament. Orbán...
Hungary's populist Orbán to take over EU presidency as many issues hang in the balance
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — When Hungary takes over the helm of the European Union on July 1, many politicians in Brussels will have the same thing on their minds: whether populist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will use the role to further his reputation as the bloc’s main spoiler. ...
Masked intruder pleads guilty to 2007 attack on Connecticut arts patron and fake virus threat
The last of three masked men pleaded guilty to a failed attempt to extort $8.5 million from a wealthy Connecticut arts patron and her companion by threatening them with a deadly virus in a 2007 home invasion. The 38-year-old Romanian citizen, Stefan Alexandru Barabas, had been on the...
Hungary's 'sovereignty protection' office launches investigation into Transparency International
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — A Hungarian authority tasked with defending the nation's sovereignty against foreign influence has launched an investigation into the Hungarian branch of anti-corruption organization Transparency International. Transparency International Hungary said...
Supreme Court will take up Hungary's bid to end lawsuit from Holocaust survivors
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to intervene for the second time in a dispute between Hungary and Holocaust survivors who want to be compensated for the property confiscated from them during World War II. The justices will hear arguments in the fall in...
Dutch leader Mark Rutte clears a big hurdle to becoming NATO chief after Hungary lifts objections
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary on Tuesday lifted its veto on Mark Rutte becoming the next head of NATO after the outgoing Dutch prime minister gave written guarantees that he would not force the country to take part in the military alliance’s new plans to provide support to Ukraine. ...
For Trump it's MAGA, but Hungary's Orbán is going MEGA at the European Union's helm for six months
BRUSSELS (AP) — Hungary’s populist government announced on Tuesday that its upcoming presidency of the European Union will be held under the motto “Make Europe Great Again,” but played down any parallels with Donald Trump’s MAGA movement in the United States. “This is a...
Italian activist freed from Hungary returns home after being elected to European Parliament
ROME (AP) — Italian anti-fascist activist Ilaria Salis returned to her parents’ house in the northern Italian city of Monza on Saturday evening, after being freed from house arrest in Budapest the day before. “A nightmare is over,” her father Roberto Salis told journalists...
An Italian activist elected to European Parliament has been freed in Hungary, will return home soon
ROME (AP) — An Italian anti-fascist activist was released from house arrest in Hungary on Friday after being elected as a new member of the European Parliament for the Italian Green and Left Alliance, the party’s leaders said. Local police in Budapest removed Ilaria Salis’...
Top EU court fines Hungary $216 million for flouting asylum law
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court ordered Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros ($216 million) on Thursday for persistently breaking the bloc’s asylum rules despite a previous European Court of Justice ruling, plus an additional 1 million euros for every day it fails to...
