Hungary
January 20, 2012“Freedom House got it wrong!” We can expect to hear this message from an angry official in Budapest after the release on Thursday of the Freedom in the World Report 2012. Hungary has the unfortunate distinction of being the only Western democracy...
Hungarians rally against their new consitution
January 03, 2012Edited by Valeriu Gonta / Moldova.org/ -- Tens of thousands of Hungarians are protesting against their new constitution, which was adopted at the beginning of 2012. Political parties, civil organizations and opposition groups joined the crowd to rally...
'Most wanted Nazi' Sandor Kepiro, 97, tried in Hungary
May 05, 2011A 97-year-old Hungarian accused of massacring civilians in Serbia in 1942 has gone on trial in Hungary. Sandor Kepiro was listed by the Simon Wiesenthal Center as the world's most wanted Nazi war crimes suspect. More than 1,200 Jewish, Serb and Roma...
Hungary’s media laws threaten core European principles
January 06, 2011By Constanze Stelzenmüller “Europe whole and free” owes a great debt to the decision by a courageous Hungarian government to open its frontiers to Austria in the summer of 1989, allowing thousands of East German refugees to escape...
Hungarian media law further endangers media freedom
December 22, 2010Hungary's new media law violates OSCE media freedom standards and endangers editorial independence and media pluralism, Dunja Mijatovic, the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, said today. "I am concerned that Hungary's parliament has...
Moldovan foreign minister visits Hungary
August 31, 2010Deputy Premier, Foreign and European Integration Minister Iurie Leanca paid a working visit to Budapest on 25-26 August at the invitation of his Hungarian counterpart Janos Martonyi, the ministry s public relations department has said. The visit took...
Moldovan president meets Hungarian parliament speaker
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July 24, 2010Acting President and Parliament Speaker Mihai Ghimpu had a meeting with the speaker of the National Assembly of Hungary, Pal Schmitt, in Budapest on 21 July. The sides focused on the development of the Moldovan-Hungarian dialogue and the consolidation...
Hungary adopts citizenship law, Slovakia retaliated with legislation banning double citizenship
May 27, 2010By Stefan Bos Hungary's new parliament has adopted a controversial law that will grant citizenship to ethnic Hungarians living in neighboring nations nearly nine decades after the country lost two-thirds of its territory. The law comes Wednesday despite...
Moldova participates in meeting of Visegrad-4+ Group
March 05, 2010Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and European Integration Minister Iurie Leanca has represented Moldova at an enlarged meeting of the foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group's countries (V4+), the Foreign and European Integration Ministry's (MAEIE) media...
‘Russian mafia’ abroad now numbers 300,000
March 01, 2010By Paul Goble After avoiding any use of the term “Russian mafia” in the last few years, law enforcement personnel in Europe and elsewhere are now speaking about it again, noting that it includes “up to 300,000 people” and dominates...