Hungarian President János Áder has set a parliamentary election for Sunday, April 3 with a referendum on LGBTQ issues to be held on the same day.

The Hungarian Constitutional Court has approved the questions of the child protection referendum and overruled the objections filed against it. Photo by ponce_photography / Pixabay (JAP)

Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump released a statement on his website endorsing incumbent Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Photo by Douliery Olivier/ABACA / PAP/Abaca

  Gergely Gulyás. Photo by SZILLARD KOSZTICSAK / MTI / PAP/EPA (JAP)

„We demand that the new federal government respect our sovereignty” Justice Minister Judit Varga said in the interview for the German daily newspaper „Die Welt”.

The Foreign Ministers of the Visegrad Group and Turkey discussed migration, Afghanistan, the Western Balkans, the possibilities of enhanced economic cooperation following the Covid-19 pandemic, EU-Turkey and V4+Turkey relations in Budapest on 21 December.

– We have reached an agreement with the President of France on strengthening Europe – Viktor Orbán, the prime minister of Hungary, announced in Budapest after Monday's summit of the prime ministers of the Visegrad Group countries and Emmanuel Macron.

Historical irony must be at play if the contemporary “Visegrád” foundation is a common historical experience stemming from more than 40 years of being part of, or to put it more bluntly, of subordination to and dependence on an eastern empire known as the Soviet Union – built by Lenin and consolidated by Stalin with the consent of the so-called western powers.

Poland and Hungary are known in Europe not only for their very good bilateral relations but also, above all, for their cooperation in defending common values and interests in the international arena, especially within the European Union. The two countries have enjoyed very warm relations for many years, which is due to their shared history, cultural ties, and often similar foreign policy goals. All this is reflected in formats such as the Visegrad Group (V4) and the Three Seas Initiative (TSI).

On 8 December 2021, the Park of Polish-Hungarian Friendship in Veszprém – a city located southwest of Budapest – saw the official unveiling and consecration ceremony of a commemorative plaque honouring the former President of the Republic of Poland Lech Kaczyński.

The European Union is made up of free and equal nation-states, linked by a number of areas of close cooperation, and Europe can only be saved from further crises and tensions through this model of cooperation, European Conservative leaders said in a joint statement closing Saturday's Warsaw conference.

„Thousands of migrants tried to get to Poland last night“, „The Poland-Belarus border was rather calm last night“, „Crisis on the Poland-Belarus border intensifies“, „Polish security forces use water cannons and flash grenades against migrants“ – these headlines are just a fragment of what we could see in the past months. As a TV reporter from Czechia, I was not only reading these headlines, but also creating them. However, does the perspective of the border crisis differ in uninvolved…