A recent, “clear” decision by the Polish constitutional court is “being misinterpreted in Europe”, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Saturday, arguing that “the dispute is not over whether European Union law has precedence over national legislation but in which areas it has precedence”.

– Hungary was among the 10 EU countries to have already rebounded to pre-pandemic economic levels – Finance Minister Mihály Varga said after a meeting of the finance ministers of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Wspólna konferencja prasowa ministrów Grupy Wyszehradzkiej. Fot. Attila Kovacs / EPA/PAP/EPA

– Central Europe is facing a decade offering fantastic opportunities – the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Wednesday in Ústi nad Labem in Czech Republic. Photo by Ondrej Hajek / CTK / PAP/CTK

Hungary signed a 15-year gas purchase agreement with Gazprom on Monday.  Photo by NOEMI BRUZAK / MTI / PAP/EPA

Hungary’s government will spend 30 percent more resources on defence in 2022 than this year – state secretary Tamás Menczer said on Saturday.

– Some civilisations are able to reproduce themselves; the West is not one of them – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stated on Thursday at the 4th Budapest Demographic Summit. He also explained that the Hungarian government based its family policy on five pillars. 

Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Pawel Jablonski condemned double standards in Brussels, saying EU law objections are really about politics in the interview for Hungarian Daily Magyar Hirlap. 

– By 15 February 2022, they will refund the personal income tax paid in 2021 to parents raising children. The owners of small businesses who raise children will also receive a tax refund. In total, in February 2022 the tax authority will refund HUF 600 billion to 1.9 million parents – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in his address in Parliament.

–  It is wrong to always talk only about Hungary and Poland – Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz told the Austrian Funke Media Group and the French daily „Ouest-France”. Kurz said that equal measures should apply for all European Union member states.  Photo by: Bundesmini

The twelve MEPs of Hungary's ruling Fidesz party have regained the committee seats they lost this March when the Fidesz group left the European People's Party. 

Hungary protects Europe’s borders. We are working hard to ensure that what happened in New York twenty years ago should never happen again, reads Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s press statement which the Press Office of the Prime Minister published on the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York.

The head of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Zbigniew Rau said that the greatest challenge facing Europe was „to save the project of European integration”. The Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó, emphasised that Hungary does not agree with the delegation of further powers to EU institutions.