EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) recommended eleven medicines for approval at its November 2021 meeting.

The Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Doris Schneeberger as Director Banknotes. The Directorate Banknotes is responsible for coordinating and monitoring banknote developments within the Eurosystem and with third parties. Ms Schneeberger will shape the Directorate’s overall strategy including the Eurosystem’s cash strategy, which aims to ensure that cash remains widely […]

Speaker of Parliament László Kövér has held talks with Estonian Speaker Juri Ratas, who is paying an official visit to Hungary, Parliament’s press office said in a statement. Kövér said Estonia-Hungary economic, cultural and defence-security ties had functioned well over the past three decades, and both countries were bound by language ties and “our struggles […]

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in Istanbul that Europe had never before faced such a complex set of challenges when it came to the issue of migration.

New issuances of debt securities by euro area residents totalled EUR 788.7 billion in September 2021. Redemptions amounted to EUR 669.0 billion and hence net issues to EUR 119.7 billion. The annual growth rate of outstanding debt securities issued by euro area residents was 4.1% in September 2021, compared with 4.0% in August.

Europe is in need of allies who can expand the continent’s lines of defence, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said after talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara.

The humanitarian impact of the “unfortunate pull-out” of international forces from Afghanistan, as well as developments at the Belarus-Poland border, are elements of a migration crisis facing the bloc, the prime minister’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyás, said. “It is important that Poland receives all assistance that Hungary was denied in 2015, when it started […]

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán expressed his best wishes to his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki in a letter on Thursday, on the occasion of Poland’s National Independence Day.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó assured his Polish counterpart Zbigniew Rau of Hungary’s solidarity and expressed thanks for Polish border guards and police protecting the borders of Poland and consequently the borders of the European Union.

Péter Márki-Zay, the opposition’s joint candidate for prime minister, is scheduled to meet representatives of European organisations, four European parliamentary group leaders, four European commissioners and Belgian politicians during a current visit to Brussels.