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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban of the governing Fidesz party prepares to cast his ballot at the nationwide local elections in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

The Latest: Hungary opposition parties win big in Budapest

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European Commissioner designate for Inter-institutional Relations and Foresight Maros Sefcovic arrives for his hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Hungary, Romania nominees rejected for EU top jobs again

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European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, right, shakes hands with Finnish Prime Minister Antti Rinne, left, at EU headquarters in Brussels, Friday, Sept. 27, 2019. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP)

Finnish PM: EU members agree on budget link to rule of law

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Hungary, West Virginia sign economic agreement

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FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2017 file picture Hungarian writer, sociologist Gyorgy Konrad attends the funeral of Hungarian film director Karoly Makk in Budapest. Gyorgy Konrad died on Friday, Sept 13, 2019 at the age of 86. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)

Hungarian writer and dissident Gyorgy Konrad dies at 86

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FILE-In this Sept. 15, 2018 file photo Hungarian architect, film and theatre production designer Laszlo Rajk, a founding member and lawmaker of Hungary's liberal Alliance of Free Democrats between 1990 and 1996, attends the press conference for his movie 'Sunset' during the 15th Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival in Miskolc. Laszlo Rajd died on Sept.11, 2019 at the age of 70. (Janos Vajda/MTI via AP)

Hungarian architect, dissident Laszlo Rajk dies at 70

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CORRECTS SLOVAKIAN TO CZECH PRIME MINISTER --- Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis delivers a speech during the 3rd Budapest Demographic Summit in Varkert Bazar conference center in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2019. The Hungarian capital city, which hosts the international summit for the third time after 2015 and 2017, welcomes politicians, scientists, church dignitaries and public personalities to give presentations and exchange their experiences on current population trends. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungary touts family policies as alternative to immigration

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Spanish tenor Placido Domingo and his wife, Marta Domingo sit during the rehearsal of the opening gala of the Gerard Of Sagredo Youth Forum and Sports Center in Szeged, Hungary, Tuesday, August 27, 2019, a day prior to the event. (Tibor Rosta/MTI via AP)

Placido Domingo concert opening sports complex in Hungary

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Experts disappointed with Hungary’s anti-corruption efforts

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The 64-year-old Ukrainian captain of the Swiss-operated Viking Sigyn hotelship, centre, is escorted to a court hearing to decide on his arrest at the Buda Central District Court in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, July 31, 2019. On May 29, the Viking Sigyn cruise ship collided with the Hableany sightseeing boat that had 33 South Korean tourists on board and a crew of two Hungarians. Seven tourists were rescued from the water after the collision and the rest died. The captain was taken back into police custody on July 29 on suspicion of abandoning the passengers and crew of the Hableany sightseeing boat after the crash. (Marton Monus/MTI via AP)

Ship captain in deadly Danube crash put under arrest again

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FILE -- In this Friday, April 20, 2018 photo businessman and former head of the Hungarian Swimming Association, Tamas Gyarfas, addresses the media after a hearing at a court in Budapest, Hungary. Prosecutors say they have indicted the former head of Hungary’s swimming federation for ordering the 1998 murder of a rival media mogul. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP, file)

Hungarian swim federation ex-chief indicted in 1998 murder

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Hungary to hold nationwide municipal elections on Oct. 13

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FILE - In this Tuesday, May 7, 2019 file photo, a family are transported to a transit zone for asylum seekers by police bus, in Roszke, Hungary. Felipe Gonzalez Morales, the U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, said Wednesday July 19, 2019, at the end of a visit to Hungary, that authorities should move families with children awaiting a ruling on their asylum applications from detention in border transit zones to open reception centers. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi, File)

UN expert critical of Hungary’s treatment of asylum-seekers

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Hungary’s president OKs govt takeover of research

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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto during their meeting in the latter's office in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, July 12, 2019. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)

China warns US ‘not to play with fire’ regarding Taiwan

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Illustration on Hungarian immigration policy by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Hungary sound immigration policy delivers aid directly to places affected by conflict

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A crane lifts the sightseeing boat out of the Danube river in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, June 11, 2019. Eight people are still missing from the May 29 collision between the Hableany (Mermaid) sightseeing boat and the Viking Sigyn river cruise ship at Budapest's Margit Bridge. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

The Latest: Crane lifts sunken tour boat out of Danube River

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A rescue crew works on the Danube river where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Wednesday, June 5, 2019. Divers and rescue crews slowly are recovering the bodies of a growing number of people killed when a sightseeing boat and a long river cruise ship collided in Hungary's capital. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

The Latest: Cruise ship in fatal crash returning to Budapest

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Rescue team members are seen on a barge floating on the Danube river where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, June 1, 2019. As divers descended Friday into the Danube, Hungarian authorities predicted it would take an extended search to find the 21 people still missing after a boat carrying South Korean tourists was rammed by a cruise ship and sank into the river in Budapest. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)

The Latest: Hungary IDs 7 Korean victims of boat sinking

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Kang Kyung-wha, center, foreign minister of South Korea, together with her Hungarian counterpart, Peter Szijjarto, right, visits the bank of the Danube River close to Margit Bridge where a sightseeing boat capsized in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, May 31, 2019. Hungarian police have detained the captain of a cruise ship that collided with the sightseeing boat packed with South Korean tourists, causing it to sink quickly in the river in Budapest, as loved ones of the missing and dead were expected to arrive Friday in Hungary. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)

The Latest: ‘Unique’ method needed to salvage sunken boat

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