BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Friday denounced the International Criminal Court’s issuing of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying he would defy it by inviting him to Hungary. In comments to state radio, Orbán accused the ICC, the world’s top war crimes court based in The Hague, of “interfering in an ongoing …
BUDAPEST, Hungary — An aspiring challenger to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán renewed his calls for change Friday as he led a protest of several thousand people demanding a more robust child protection system and the resignation of Orbán’s government. A one-time insider within Orbán’s Fidesz party and the ex-husband of former justice minister and Orbán ally Judit Varga, Magyar …
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán sought to contain the political fallout of a presidential pardon scandal during an annual state of the nation address on Saturday, his first public appearance since Hungary’s president, his ally, resigned a week ago. A bipartisan delegation of U.S. lawmakers is set to visit Budapest on Sunday for a “mission focused on …
Hungarian President Katalin Novák on Saturday handed over her resignation after a public outcry over a pardon she granted to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. "I issued a pardon that caused bewilderment and unrest for many people," Novák said on Saturday. Erzsébet Szapunczay, another attendee, said she was "very, very happy" with Novák's …
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Pressure is mounting on Hungary’s head of state to resign after it was revealed that she issued a presidential pardon to a man convicted as an accomplice in a child sexual abuse case. Hungary’s opposition parties say that President Katalin Novák, Hungary’s one-time minister for families and a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, is no …
