This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the People’s Republic of China and the European Union. The Chinese press has remembered the occasion in several articles. According to the Xinhua news agency’s summary, shared by the Chinese Embassy in Budapest, the most valuable experience of the 50-year history of […]
The European Commission announced on Wednesday that 35,762 young Europeans, including 787 Hungarians, will receive free European train tickets this spring under the European Union's DiscoverEU program. According to the Brussels-based information, the winners of the latest DiscoverEU program, part of the EU's Erasmus+ program, will be able to travel across Europe from March 1, […]
The European Union announced its top officials will boycott informal meetings hosted by Hungary during the country’s EU presidency. This decision follows Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's controversial meetings with foreign leaders about Ukraine, which have angered European partners. Some member states, however, are frowning on Brussels’ unprecedented move. The European Commission, the EU's executive […]
The Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has officially taken over the presidency of the European Council from the Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo. The handover took place in Brussels on Monday, where Orbán and De Croo held talks to mark the transition. This marks the beginning of Hungary's six-month tenure in the role. During […]
Following a referendum on accessing the European Union, held on April 12, 2003, Hungary – along with nine other countries – joined the EU twenty years ago, on May 1, 2004. At the referendum, which had a turnout of 45.6%, 83.8% of the voters cast their ballots in favor of EU membership and polls suggest […]
The supermarket chain Spar is to complain to the European Union about a special tax in Hungary, a Financial Times (FT) report is quoted by the Hungarian financial portal portfolio.hu. Spar has accused the Hungarian government of breaking EU law and called on Brussels to intervene to mitigate the "devastating" effects on its operations. The […]
