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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton has hit out at Poland and Hungary, claiming the countries’ rejection of mass Muslim migration means they reject democracy and want “Putin-like dictatorships”. Speaking at a New Jersey rally in support of his wife Hillary

The majority of people in the world still primarily define themselves by their national identity, a survey of 18 different countries has found. The poll conducted by GlobeScan for the BBC World Service found that 52 per cent of respondents

There is an understanding between Ankara and Brussels that the nations of the European Union (EU) will agree to “quotas” of a quarter-million migrants a year directly from Turkey, claims a German Sunday paper. The report states there is a

UK Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage has praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban for his stance on the migrant crisis, and for standing up to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. In an interview with the Financial Times, Mr Farage sang

In speeches on Hungary’s National Day, prime minister Viktor Orbán has lashed out at European leaders for inviting the “destruction of Europe” by causing the migrant crisis and has rejected European Union (EU) plans to resolve the situation. Warning “Europe will

At the end of his weekly Angelus address Sunday, Pope Francis praised Greece and other “front line” countries for their reception of migrants, while urging the rest of the European Union (EU) to be more “generous” in taking in refugees.

The European Commission is planning to slap down Hungary’s decision to hold a referendum on compulsory migrant quotas, claiming that holding a democratic vote would not “fit into the decision-making process” agreed by European Union (EU) states. The quota system

Contents: Greece facing humanitarian crisis with thousands of refugees on Macedonia border; Tsipras: ‘Greece will not become a warehouse for souls’; Greece recalls ambassador to Austria as refugee crisis worsens

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has claimed victory over British PM David Cameron, reassuring his fellow parliamentarians that Hungarians will still be able to access British benefits without having first paid into the system. Last Friday, Mr. Cameron returned from

BERLIN, Feb 25 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban has said the European Union’s promise of money and other concessions for Turkey in return for preventing more people leaving its shores for Europe is an “illusion”. “We are begging

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has this afternoon announced a referendum on the European Union’s (EU) mandatory migrant resettlement quotas, the first time they have been challenged in this way. The migrant quota system, which redistributes migrants from the most

Pointing towards Eurosceptic contagion across the European Union (EU), the Prime Minister of the Czech Republic yesterday warned that a referendum vote for Britain to leave would encourage debate in his country as to whether they should follow suit. Bohuslav Sobotka

MOSCOW (AP) — Hungary’s prime minister vented his anger against the influx of migrants on a visit to Russia on Wednesday, saying that it threatens the identity of European Union (EU) nations and raises terror threats. Viktor Orban made the

Migrant crisis funder billionaire George Soros has written for the Guardian newspaper this morning claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a bigger threat to Europe’s existence than the Islamic State.  The opinion piece from the U.S.-based Hungarian billionaire comes

Over 1,000 people have been arrested at the border of Hungary and Serbia and according to the Hungarian government the numbers of migrants attempting to cross illegally continues to grow. In spite of the controversial border fence – erected by

The sexual assaults that marred New Year celebrations in Cologne and other cities across Germany, mostly perpetrated by young male immigrants from Syria and Iraq, is sadly nothing new. According to a new report by Amnesty International (AI), women travelling

The European Union puts a defiant Poland in the dock on Wednesday over changes to the state media and constitution, in a move which could expose Warsaw to punitive measures for breaching democratic standards. The European Commission, the executive arm

Contents: Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) existential crisis continues; David Cameron hopes to ‘reform’ the EU to avoid British exit (Brexit); Hungary’s PM tells Cameron: ‘Hungarians in UK aren’t parasites’

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a key ally of Warsaw’s conservative government, said Friday that Budapest would move to block any EU sanctions on Poland. “Hungary would never support sanctions against Poland,” Orban said in his weekly interview on public

WARSAW, Jan 6 (Reuters) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), on Wednesday, a party source said, in an apparent move to strengthen an emerging eurosceptic axis in

Contents: UK bitterly sends troops back Afghanistan’s Helmand province; Number of migrants entering Europe this year passes the one million mark

BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Hungary has scrapped plans to erect a statue of Balint Homan, a former World War Two government minister who supported anti-Semitism in Hungary in the 1930s and 40s, after protests from Jewish leaders. The row over honouring

Jewish leaders have welcomed the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s decision not to support a statue honouring a fascist who helped facilitate the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust. Ronald S Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, said a

Britain’s media has scarcely been more frenzied as of late than when U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump decided to turn his guns on the political establishment across the Atlantic, insisting that British police were afraid for their lives because of Islamic

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has lashed out at European Union (EU) leaders who continue to reject his plans to keep migrants out of the EU. He has described the response “weak, unsure and powerless” and claimed that his country, Hungary, is now becoming a “battlefield”

Marine Le Pen has accused France’s ruling class of being “intellectual terrorists” as she launches a final push in the second round of the country’s regional elections. Speaking to a crowd of supporters in Paris, alongside her niece Marion, Ms

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has hit out at the European Commission, pledging to take it to court over its mandatory migrant quotas. His government filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Justice over the Commission’s plans to distribute

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban has again hit out at Europe’s policy of mass migration, linking the latest terrorist atrocities in Paris to the European Union’s (EU) long standing immigration policies, and insisting that “all the terrorists are basically migrants… The question

The European Parliament’s tax payer funded liberal group is hosting their annual congress in the Hungarian capital with the express intention of destabilising the democratically elected right-wing government. Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt said Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban is a “dictator” and “the problem

The migrant invasion to Europe from the Middle East and Africa may be part of a left-wing plot to pack the continent with sympathetic voters, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has told Swiss magazine die Weltwoche. He also said that

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said his country and three other Eastern European nations will send 300 border guards to Greece to help stop the massive influx of migrants currently entering Europe. Speaking at the European migration summit in

With an anti-immigrant campaign and razor-wire border fence Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has reversed a slide in his party’s popularity, emerging at home as a winner in the crisis that has divided Europe. Personal approval ratings have also jumped

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said yesterday that Europe’s ‘migrant invasion’ represents as unprecedented challenge that “could crush and bury under itself the form of existence we have known up to now.” Mr Orbán was addressing the opening ceremony of the World Science Forum

Billionaire investor George Soros has confirmed he wants to bring down Europe’s borders, following the accusation made last week by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Last week, Mr Orban accused Mr Soros – who was born in Hungary – of

Firebrand Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (above) has, for the second time during Europe’s migrant crisis, lashed out at billionaire George Soros who he says is responsible for the continent-wide epidemic. Mr. Orbán was interviewed on Hungarian radio this morning. He blamed the likes

The people of Europe — if not their politicians —  are waking up to the fact that mass migration is a cultural, rather than just economic issue, said Viktor Orban on Radio Budapest this morning. Speaking on the daily 180-minute early-morning