(ANSA) – ROME, JUN 21 – “We have always sought negotiation, without stigmatizing. But when the time comes to choose between equity and inclusion, I am still on the side of equity, which for me is not negotiable”. World Athletics president Lord Sebastian Coe, guest of the World Swimming Championships in Budapest, asked the BBC […]
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The speaker of the Hungarian parliament made a strange statement about Zelensky
Laszlo Kever believes that Zelensky is asking the world for help to Ukraine in too harsh terms The speaker of the Hungarian parliament spoke about Zelensky’s “mental problems”. Collage “Today” Speaker of the Hungarian Parliament Laszlo Kever expressed his opinion about the “mental problems” of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky due to the fact […]
‘Black Lives Matter’, English booed in Budapest
(ANSA) – ROME, JUNE 04 – Here we go again. In Budapest, England players were booed and howled by the audience at the Puskas Arena as they knelt down in solidarity with Hungary before the Nations League match against Hungary kicked off. ‘Black Lives Matter’ movement. The most absurd thing about all this is that […]
Clash over oil, Orban postpones EU sanctions
The European Commission has finally presented the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, now a sort of legislative Godot. And from the reactions, we understand why. The measures in fact foresee new oligarchs on the black list, including Patriarch Kirill, the expulsion from SWIFT of Sberbank (the main Russian bank), a blow to the regime’s […]
The Hungarian Prime Minister Orban in the Vatican for an audience with Pope Francis
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accompanied by his entourage, arrived at the Vatican where he is received in a private audience by Pope Francis this morning. This is the first official visit abroad by the head of the Hungarian government after the elections on 3 April which confirmed him as head of the country for […]
Ukraine: Hungary, Kiev leaders stop insulting Magyars
(ANSA) – BELGRADE, APRIL 06 – The Ukrainian ambassador to Budapest was summoned to the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was given a message specifying that it would be “time for the Ukrainian leaders to stop insulting the Hungary and take note of the will of the Hungarian people “. This was stated […]
Breaking Visegrad group, Prague-Warsaw do not go to Budapest
(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 29 – Poland and the Czech Republic will not send their representatives to the ministerial meeting of the Visegrad group (Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) convened in Budapest, to protest against the position taken by the Hungarian government of Viktor Urban on Russia and Ukraine and links with the Kremlin. “I […]
Swimming: Pellegrini “mondiai Budapest? Too many competitions, tough for athletes”
(ANSA) – ROME, MARCH 22 – “The World Championships in Budapest? I wrote to various athletes to find out their feeling about this calendar so full of competitions, and they are all in difficulty”. Word of Federica Pellegrini, who received the career sports award in Rome from the Foreign Press Association. “Between Europeans, World Championships, […]
Zelensky appeals to the EU to exclude Russia from Swift
(ANSA) – ROME, FEBRUARY 26 – The Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky has launched appeals to EU leaders and heads of state for his country to be welcomed into the Union and Russian banks to be excluded from the ‘Swift’ platform. “Draghi reiterated to President Zelensky that Italy supports and will fully support the European Union […]
The EU Court of Justice rejects appeals on the rule of law
There Court of Justice of the EU rejected the appeal of Hungary and Poland against the conditionality mechanism that links the disbursement of European funds to respect for the rule of law. Budapest and Warsaw called for the cancellation of the regulation that allows the EU to suspend payments from the European budget to member […]