Viktor Orbán

Outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov will receive one of the highest state orders of Hungary on Wednesday, the government's press office has said.

Borisov is to meet Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orbán in Budapest while on a visit that was due last week but was postponed after the riots in a migrant center.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been invited to visit the U.S. by that country's president-elect, Donald Trump.

“I spoke with the new U.S. president by telephone, and can say that our position has improved a lot. Donald Trump made clear that he holds Hungary in high regard,” AFP quoted Orban as telling the Vilaggazdasag website.

Hungarian prisoners have finished building the first part of a second anti-migrant fence on Hungary’s southern border with Serbia, state television reported yesterday (21 November). Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announced last August plans for a second fence line in August to reinforce the existing barrier erected last year along the 175-kilometre-long border.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Monday described his country's northern neighbor, Hungary, as "a true friend."

Vucic made this remark during a joint news conference with Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban, held after their cabinets held a joint session in Serbia's southern town of Nis.

Hungary's government is on its way to cut the corporate tax to the lowest level in the EU in a sign of increasingly competitive tax practices among countries seeking to lure foreign direct investment, according to the Financial Times.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said a new 9% corporate tax rate would be introduced in 2017, significantly lower than Ireland's 12,5% and Bulgaria's 10%.

Hungarian lawmakers on Nov. 8 blocked Prime Minister Viktor Orban's bid to change the constitution to bar the resettlement of refugees, after the radical right Jobbik party refused to support the bill.

While all 131 MPs of Orban's ruling right-wing coalition voted in favor, the bill failed to pick up an extra two votes to reach a required two-thirds majority.

Hungary's Parliament has rejected the constitutional amendment proposed by PM Viktor Orban for a ban on the settlement of asylum seekers in Hungary, reported Reuters.

After the failure of the referendum on migrant quotas, this is a new blow against the Prime Minister which can make it difficult for him to continue with his fight against the migrant policy of the EU.

Unless Brussels removes the issue of mandatory migrant quotas from the agenda, Hungary will "resist them, and sue the European Commission."

Prime Minister Viktor Orban said this on Friday. Reuters reported that in order to challenge the EU, the Hungarian government would use "a recent referendum in which the overwhelming majority rejected the EU quotas."

Hungary's PM Viktor Orban has called for the salvation of Europe via national states and Christian values, reported BGNES.

Hungary wants to put an end to the "sovietisation of Europe" and to protect its borders from mass migration, added Orban during the celebrations commemorating the anniversary of the anti-communist revolt in the country in 1956.

The EU said Oct. 10 it is "very concerned" after Hungary's main opposition newspaper halted publication, sparking fears of a clampdown on press freedom by the right-wing government.