Thirteen European Union countries have expressed concern over Hungary’s new law against paedophiles, saying that it discriminates against the LGBT community and violates “the right to freedom of expression under the pretext of protecting children”, Belgian Foreign Minister Sophie Wilmes said on Tuesday.
Hungary gives its utmost support to help companies succeed in foreign markets and the Western Balkans are considered a key area in this endeavour, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said at the opening of Hungary’s consulate in Štip. Hungarian companies have been traditionally successful in the Western Balkans and the government’s decisions needed for their continued […]
A statement by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen concerning recent Hungarian legislation is a shame because it is based on false allegations, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a statement.
In the week ending 18 June 2021 the net position of the Eurosystem in foreign currency (asset items 2 and 3 minus liability items 7, 8 and 9) increased by EUR 0.7 billion to EUR 313.5 billion.
As a member country of the Council of Europe (CoE), Ukraine has the obligation to observe CoE minority protection conventions, yet the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia has been subject to continued persecution by local authorities in the recent past, a lawmaker of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party said in Strasbourg on Monday evening.
Unless the European Union makes timely steps in terms of its enlargement, it could lose the Western Balkans, similarly to the United Kingdom, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on the sidelines of a meeting of EU affairs ministers in Luxembourg.
The European Union has become hostage to ideological debates, Hungary’s justice minister said. Judit Varga said on Facebook in an English-language post that on the agenda of a General Affairs Council meeting, “the last point is once again Europe’s sick, tired political stick, aka the Article 7 procedure”.
EMA’s committee for human medicines (CHMP) has approved additional manufacturing sites for the production of Comirnaty, the COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer.
The number of illegal border crossings at Europe’s external borders in the first five months of 2021 reached over 47 100, 47% more than the total from a year ago when irregular migration dropped due to travel limitations linked to the outbreak of COVID, according to preliminary calculations.
The coronavirus pandemic has challenged European societies in many ways. The European Environment Agency’s (EEA) briefing, published today, analyses the pandemic’s effect on the use of certain single-use plastics products, which cause greenhouse gas and other emissions and can end up littering the environment. It also brings useful lessons to improve our response to future […]
