Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi welcomed the European Union’s decision to raise the bloc’s health-care funding to 5.1 billion euros in the 2021-2027 financial cycle, from 410 million euros in the previous cycle.
The European Parliamentary group of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz and Christian Democrats has written a letter to EP President David Sassoli over the inclusion of Fidesz MEP Andrea Bocskor on Ukrainian nationalist organisation Myrotvorets’s list of “enemies of Ukraine”.
Ukraine is using “the darkest methods reminiscent of the Soviet era” to intimidate its citizens, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Facebook.
More than 1,000 Barcelona residents gathered Saturday to participate in a medical study to evaluate the effectiveness of same-day COVID-19 testing to safely hold cultural events.
UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called on world leaders on Saturday to declare a climate emergency in their countries as the world faces a “catastrophic temperature rise”.
Since World War II, global carbon emissions have never fallen as much in a year as this year due to the pandemic caused by a new type of coronavirus.
The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has insisted that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán suffered a defeat at the European Union summit on Thursday.
“We have fought for our rights and rejected everything that isn’t acceptable for our nations,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at a press conference held with Mateusz Morawiecki, his Polish counterpart, in Brussels.
Having received the guarantees it demanded in connection with the dispute over rule-of-law conditionality, Hungary has succeeded in preserving its sovereignty, Justice Minister Judit Varga said in an interview.
The Hungarian and Polish governments “stepped back from the brink” in the last moment; “they could be hailing a victory but in fact they laid down their arms in Brussels”, the mayors of the two capitals said in a joint statement.
