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Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday passed a law banning Pride events and allowing authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees, prompting those in the opposition to ignite smoke bombs in parliament. video at link.

Hungary & Slovakia totally against wasting their tax payer Euros on weapons for Ukraine. 4:44

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hungary’s ruling coalition continued its crackdown on the country’s LBGTQ+ community on Monday, as members submitted a bill to parliament that would ban the popular Budapest Pride event and allow authorities to use facial recognition software to identify attendees. The bill is almost certain to pass, as the ruling coalition has a two-thirds majority in parliament. The bill would make it an offense to hold or attend events that violate Hungary’s contentious “child protection” legislation, which prohibits the “depiction or promotion” of homosexuality to minors under 18. Attending a prohibited event would carry fines up to...

Ukraine has attacked the Russian pipeline that cuts off the energy to Hungary and Slovakia. Budapest declared it was an attack on its sovereignty in the official statement of the Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó. Zelensky is out of control. Hungary has informed Ukraine that Hungary considers this an act of war that is an “attack on its sovereignty.” They also informed Ukraine: “We urge the Ukrainians not to attack energy infrastructure that supplies Hungary.” Video Player The former president of France stood alongside the Chancellor of Germany and declared that the purpose of the EU was to create one...

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The war in Ukraine has disproportionately hurt Hungary and Slovakia. To add insult to injury, Zelensky declined to renew a gas line deal that was providing the two European nations with essential energy. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico have once again broken ties with the European Union and shot down the latest Ukrainian aid package. Fico has said that he would not send Ukraine another euro and called “peace through strength” measures “unrealistic.” Furthermore, Fico sees through Zelensky’s victimization and is reportedly “sick” of his games. “He roams Europe begging and blackmailing, asking others...

The Orbán administration has said that the country 'should not tolerate' the public event this year. NGOs and human rights activists in Hungary have condemned the government's proposed clampdown on this year's Pride march in Budapest. In a speech last week, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hinted that his administration would crack down on the event, saying it would be "a waste of time and money" for its organisers to make their usual preparations. Then on Thursday, Gergely Gullyás, the Hungarian minister who runs Orbán's office, spoke more explicitly. “There will be no Pride in the public form in which...

In the Carpathian region, the organizers of the coup will be tried: they planned to eliminate the president and dissolve the Verkhovna Rada Russian agents who, together with the "Ukrainian choice" of the godfather of Russian President Viktor Medvedchuk, planned a military coup in Ukraine will be tried in the Carpathian region. Two public and political figures coordinated by the Russian special services were in direct contact with the reception of the creator of the "L/DPR", a former adviser to Vladimir Putin Vladislav Surkov. Video of the day https://membrana-cdn.media/obz/daily_ukr_desktop/obozrevatel-ukr-top5-basic-2166-20220829-desktop.mp4?r=77681 Russia planned to spend almost 10 million on preparing the coup....

"We believe that the country should not tolerate Pride marching through the city center,' Prime Minister Viktor Orban's chief of staff Gergely Gulyás announced.BUDAPEST, Hungary (LifeSiteNews) – The Hungarian government announced that it will not allow an LGBT “pride” parade to take place in 2025, citing the protection of children. Politico reported that Gergely Gulyás, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, declared at a weekly press conference that “there will be no Pride in the public form in which we have known it in recent decades. We believe that the country should not tolerate Pride marching through the city...

The President of the Republika Srpska entity, Milorad Dodik, said that 300 members of the Hungarian special police arrived in Bosnia and Herzegovina this week. According to him, they are located in the RS MUP facilities in Banja Luka. “I must inform you that I am proud. I have agreed with Prime Minister Orban that their anti-terrorist unit, 300 people, will come to RS and that together with the RS MUP Special Anti-terrorist Unit, they will have training and exercises,” Dodik said last night during his address to the RS National Assembly. Dodik met with Viktor Orban last week, the...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's annual Budapest Pride should be held in a "closed venue" this year rather than processing along an avenue in central Budapest as previously, Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Chief of Staff said on Wednesday, citing child protection. It was unclear whether the government intended to move the event inside or also restrict access. The plan appeared to be part of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's restrictions on the activities of the LGBTQ+ community as the nationalist leader prepares for elections in 2026 in which his right-wing Fidesz party faces an unprecedented challenge from a new opponent. Community members...

In the late 18th century, Russia, Austria, and Prussia finished with the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This state was a union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that had dominated Eastern and Central Europe for centuries.., But before its era of weakness, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was a power to reckon with. It controlled a large chunk of territory spanning from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Lithuania’s history began in the early 13th century when local pagan Baltic tribes organized themselves into a single state. By 1230, the chieftain Mindaugas emerged as the leader...

The Austro-Hungarian Empire, also known as the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed by a compromise agreement between Vienna and Budapest, consisting of two sovereign states with a single monarch who was titled both Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. The empire was geographically the second-largest country in Europe and the third-most populous, spanning almost 700,000 square kilometres and containing 52 million people. It was a major European power in the years prior to World War I, occupying much of central Europe and containing a rich mix of...

Tucker Carlson interviews Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on USAID, Trump, immigration, NATO, and the Russia-Ukraine war. TUCKER CARLSON: I remember one of your advisors telling me years ago, whispering to me at dinner that the U.S. government, the State Department, and agencies like USAID were working against you, funding your opposition indirectly, and really trying to subvert democracy in your country and thinking, boys, can that be true? It turns out now it is true. And I wonder when the rest of us are gonna get details on what exactly the State Department did to end democracy in Hungary....

after President Trump dealt a huge blow to their activities in the US. Now 63 of them are asking Brussels for money, under the guise of various human rights projects. Not going to happen! We will not let them find safe haven in Europe! The USAID-files exposed the dark practices of the globalist network. We will not take the bait again!

VIDEOSamantha Power is now crying crocodile tears over being fired as the USAID Administrator. However, when she headed that CIA front she had no qualms about using USAID money to subvert governments, such as in Hungary, who did not kneel to the globalist agenda.

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — Hours before President Donald Trump was sworn in to begin his second term, promising a “golden age” for America, the leader of a Central European country was describing the years ahead in strikingly similar terms. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Trump’s return would usher in Hungary’s own “golden age” and mark the “collapse” of liberal democracy. The messaging overlap was no surprise. Orbán’s strongman style has long served as an inspiration for U.S. conservatives, who have looked at Hungary as a possible model for a right-wing America with less immigration, fewer regulations and the removal of...

As the Hungarian prime minister said, the money was used to sponsor opposition media outlets and non-governmental organizationsBUDAPEST, February 10. /TASS/. The recent disclosure by President Donald Trump about where US foreign aid went shows that the funds were used to overthrow unwanted governments in other countries, including Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said, noting that "a grandiose scandal is unfolding in America." "The US president has decided to reveal who received money and how much was allocated by various government agencies in recent years. It turned out that the liberal world elite used the budget and the US government...

At a gathering in Madrid, members of Europe’s far-right parties set aside any trepidation they might have about President Trump’s threats, and instead focused on a common enemy — the European Union. ...There was Marine Le Pen of France’s far-right National Rally; the Netherland’s populist, Geert Wilders; the leader of Italy’s League party, Matteo Salvini. All made clear that they shared Mr. Trump’s charge against what they see as “wokeism,” “gender theory,” and overweening environmentalism. For them, the American president had blown through the last barriers that had confined their parties to the political margins. The taboos had been toppled....

David Sacks blasts USAID for using American taxpayers to fund left-wing organizations and policies around the world.. We're in debt almost $40 trillion, and anytime anyone tries to cut anything in Washington, the whole city screams bloody murder. The question is, why? Well, now we know. The money is all going to them." "New York Times, getting paid. Politico, getting paid. Bill Kristol, perennial warmonger, getting paid. Ukraine, like 11 out of 12 publications, getting paid. Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, was saying his political opposition is funded by USAID." "In Poland, the left-wing political opposition is funded...