Oct 4, 2023 · Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban exerts his influence on a significant Hungarian minority in neighboring Romania through support for local autonomy aspirations, funding, expedited citizenship procedures, and even talk of human rights

Jul 27, 2024 · BAILE TUSNAD, Romania (AP) — Hungary’s nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Saturday that the European Union was sliding toward oblivion in a rambling anti-Western speech in which he warned of a new, Asia-oriented “world order” while throwing his support for Donald Trump’s U.S. presidential bid.

Jun 5, 2020 · In April this year, a row erupted when Romania’s social democratic opposition put forward a bill offering autonomy to ethnic Hungarians in Transylvania. President Klaus Iohannis of Romania said...

Jan 30, 2020 · Viktor Orban’s Hungary is pouring money into Hungarian-language media, education, sports clubs and churches in Romania’s Transylvania, where more than one million ethnic Hungarians ...

Jul 22, 2023 · (Bloomberg) -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban made taunted Romania on Saturday, deepening a dispute over Transylvania and the ethnic Hungarians who live there, while also deriding Western...

Jul 22, 2023 · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a large audience in central Romania on July 22 that the Foreign Ministry in Bucharest has given him a list of sensitive topics he should avoid in his...

Dec 13, 2024 · Orbán said big European countries had blocked their accession, and removing the obstacle had been “no small diplomatic feat”. He added that Hungarians in Transylvania had looked forward to Schengen accession for a long time, and now they could travel without barriers in …

Jul 22, 2023 · Viktor Orban, who is fiercely opposed to European asylum reform, was referring to the "Great Replacement programme". This conspiracy theory, popularised by the far right,...

Jan 7, 2019 · Every summer, Orbán gives a speech in Transylvania, in the hills of Băile Tuşnad, which is home to an enclave of ethnic Hungarians who were stranded in Romania after the Treaty of Trianon.

Jul 27, 2024 · Viktor Orban, relishing the EU presidency and buoyed by Trump’s position in the polls, is preparing to give another of his often-controversial speeches in the Romanian town on Saturday. Will he tone it down this year?