Huawei's new R&D centre in Budapest will focus on 'artificial intelligence, streaming, image processing, and signaling technologies'. other EU countries are banning countries from their 5G networks
Record number of coronavirus deaths in Hungary: 48 people died because of COVID19 in the last 24 hours. This brings the total number of deaths to 1259
According to @tovimagr, Germany, Spain, Italy, Hungary and Malta blocked Greece's proposal of an embargo on EU weapons to Turkey in last EUCO meeting. Only France, Austria and Slovenia supported it, while all others looked the other way.
9 month agoStudents protesting at Budapest's University of Theatre and Film Arts are defending the school building, despite the chancellor's demands that it be evacuated by 6 pm. Several hundred people gathered in front of the University to show solidarity.
#CzechRepublic PM @AndrejBabis seeks help with treatment of coronavirus patients abroad. He's in touch with Germany, Hungary and Poland in case of Czech hospitals collapse. "We are talking about dozens of beds," said Interior Minister @jhamacek for @SeznamZpravy
EU chief von der Leyen has 'full trust' in rule of law commissioner Jourova, says spokeswoman, after Hungary's Orban demands her resignation
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán demands that European Commission Vice President Věra Jourová resign
10 month agoVisegrad leaders met with Ursula von der Leyen today
Hungary PM Orban says 'no breakthrough' in MigrationEU plan, tougher new asylum rules do not go far enough.
10 month agoPolitico: How Orbán broke the EU — and got away with it
10 month agoPoland's and Hungary's governments threaten to block EU budget & Covid19 recovery fund because they oppose tying funds to respect for rule of law
Austrian police discovered 38 migrants, some of whom almost died of suffocation, hiding in a Romanian refrigerator truck
Today, @POTUS "spoke with Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary," according to @JuddPDeere45. "The President thanked the Prime Minister for his support on progress toward reaching peace in the Middle East, as well as economic normalization between Serbia and Kosovo
The Hungarian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, closed after the Cold War ended, has relaunched as of today in response to the country's steep decline in media freedom
At 6:30 this morning, Radio Free Europe once again began operating in Hungary
10 month agoTelex, the media outlet of former Index journalists, has published its first exclusive story: Boris Kálnoky, Budapest correspondent of Die Welt and Die Presse, was appointed Director of MCC Media School. MCC is closely connected to the ruling party Fidesz
10 month agoStudents chain reached Hungarian Parlaiment
10 month agoStudents chain from SZFE to Parliament
10 month agoThousands of students and supporters formed a human chain today in Budapest reaching from the University of Theatre to Parliament protesting against government takeover of the 155 years' old institute. Photos: HVG
10 month agoRS Prime Minister @JJansaSDS talked with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on relations and close all-round cooperation between the two countries and on tackling the COVID19 pandemic
11 month agoThe historical Chain Bridge over the Danube river is lit in the colours of the Belarusian flag in solidarity with Belarusian people in Budapest, Hungary August 18, 2020. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo
12 month agoProtesters chant "Free country, free media" as they approach PM Orbán's office in Budapest's castle district.
12 month agoCrowd arriving at PM Orban's office protesting the decline of pressfreedom in Hungary. Earlier today, most of Index's staff resigned because management fired editor-in-chief Szabolcs Dull
12 month agoIndex.hu (as we know it) gone, according to their fb page
12 month agoHungary today: journalists at a staff meeting of @indexhu after their editor-in-chief was fired. According to reports, 40 journalists are considering resignation
Another episode in the decline of Hungary's remaining independent media: multiple Index reporters resigned today, after their editor-in-chief was dismissed. Fears are growing about the future of the news site. Commission VP Jourová has raised concerns
Editor-in-chief of Index @indexhu dismissed
Hungary PM Orban succeded to convince Portugal PM @antoniocostapm that the issue of RuleOfLaw should not be included in the budget negotiations, @florianeder reports. Portugal is in line to get more than €23bln from the RRF and is eager to get it asap
1 year agoHungarian PM Orbán didn't wait long to congratulate Andrzej Duda on winning Polish presidential election
Hungary will on Thursday review rules on travel to neighbouring Austria, Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia where numbers of coronavirus cases have been rising, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff said
