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Italian minister meets Hungary premier, vows historic change

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People with hands painted in red protest in front of the Italian Interior Ministry headquarters in Rome, Wednesday, July 18, 2018. Dozens of protesters marched in front of the ministry to protest government's hard-line immigration policy. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

EU refers Hungarian asylum policies to European court

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

FILE -- In this Friday, June 20, 2014 photo former Slovenian prime minister Janez Jansa stands in front of the Slovenian flag in Ljubljana, Slovenia prior to his departure to prison. Slovenian voters go to the polls this weekend in a parliamentary election expected to produce no clear winner but could see an anti-immigrant party backed by Hungary’s firebrand Prime Minister Viktor Orban make strong gains. (AP Photo/Matej Leskovsek, file)

Anti-immigrant party set to make gains in Slovenia vote

By ALI ZERDIN - Associated Press

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, shakes hands with Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto, left, during their meeting at the US State Department in Washington, Wednesday, May 30, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Hungary a ‘natural ally’ of Trump as Pompeo, Peter Szijjarto meet

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Orban’ by Paul Lendvai

By Aram Bakshian Jr.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during an international press conference in the Parliament building in Budapest, Hungary Tuesday, April 10, 2018, two days after his Fidesz party in coalition with the Christian Democratic Party won a landslide vitory in the general elections. (Lajos Soos/MTI via AP)

EDITORIAL: Viktor Orban of Hungary smites the Brussels bureaucrats

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Hungarian Prime Minister and Chairman of Fidesz Party Viktor Orban, center, and Deputy Prime Minister and Chairman of the Christian Democratic Party Zsolt Semjen, left, celebrate the win of Fidesz and the Christian Democrats at the election night watch event after the general elections in Budapest, Hungary, late Sunday, April 8, 2018. Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his "decisive" re-election victory and the super majority in parliament his right-wing populist party appeared to have won Sunday were "an opportunity to defend Hungary." (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Viktor Orban, Hungarian populist, wins new term, party super majority

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban looks on during his visit to the ceremony marking the opening of a renovated synagogue in Subotica, Serbia, Monday, March 26, 2018. The renovation work on the synagogue, which was built in 1902, was financed jointly by both Serbia and Hungary in a sign of support for Serbia's depleted Jewish community. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Viktor Orban faces tough test in bid for third term as Hungarian president

By Thomas Roser and Austin Davis Special to The Washington Times

In this June 8, 2017, file photo Hungarian-American investor George Soros attends a press conference prior to the launch event for the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture at the Foreign Ministry in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Ferdinand Ostrop, file)

EDITORIAL: Free speech, free elections frighten George Soros

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

FILE - In this April 28, 2017 file photo a police officer with a dog patrols along the border fence on the Hungarian-Serbian border near Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary's prime minister is asking the European Union to pay for half of the costs of anti-migrant fences it built on its southern borders, some 440 million euros ($523 million). In a letter dated Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017 to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Prime Minister Viktor Orban says the fences erected in 2015 protect not just Hungary &quot;but entire Europe&quot; from &quot;the flood of illegal migrants.&quot; (Zoltan Gergely Kelemen/MTI via AP, file)

Hungary asks EU to help pay for anti-migrant border fence

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

George Soros, founder and chairman of the Open Society Foundation, waits for the start of a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, April 27, 2017. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP) ** FILE **

George Soros hits back at Hungary’s Viktor Orban, denounces ‘mafia state’

By Pablo Gorondi and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

President and Rector of the Central European University, CEU, Michael Ignatieff, center, speaks during a press conference in Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday, May 30, 2017. Sitting at left is deputy rector in charge of Hungarian issues Zsolt Enyedi and at right deputy rector for the Social Sciences and Humanities at the CEU, Eva Fodor. (Zoltan Balogh/MTI via AP)

Hungary seeks talks with New York state on Soros school

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech during the Demographic Forum of the Budapest Family Summit conference in Budapest, Hungary, Thursday May 25, 2017. Hungary’s prime minister says the government will reduce mortgages for families with three or more children and build or renovate many nurseries to help boost the country’s birth rate. Prime Minister Viktor Orban has also announced the cut or elimination of student loans owed by women with two or more children and says the government would like to increase the number of children born per woman from 1.5 now to 2.1 by 2030. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungary reveals new ideas to increase birth numbers by 2030

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Bernadett Szel, a lawmaker from the green party Politics Can Be Different, shows a copy of an appeal she presented to the Constitutional Court outside the court's headquarters on Friday, April 21, 2017. Szel and other opposition lawmakers are seeking the repeal of amendments to the law on higher education they say seeks to shut down Budapest-based Central European University, founded by billionaire philanthropist George Soros. (AP Photo/Pablo Gorondi)

Hungary: Opposition seeks repeal of law about US university

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

Demonstrators in front of the parliament building in Budapest hold a banner reading "Let's stop Fidesz" (party) as they protest an amendment of the higher education law seen by many as an action aiming at the closure of the Central European University, founded by Hungarian born American billionaire businessman George Soros. (Associated Press/File)

George Soros, Viktor Orban clash on Hungary university

By Petra Hajdu and John Dyer - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo a Hungarian soldier patrols at the transit zone at Hungary's southern border with Serbia near Tompa, 169 km southeast of Budapest, Hungary. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, an early supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has ordered the reinforcement of fences on Hungary’s southern borders to keep out migrants, many of whom are Muslims. (Sandor Ujvari/MTI via AP, file)

Hungary’s leader calls migration ‘Trojan horse’ of terrorism

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 3, 2017 file picture Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for an EU summit, in Valletta, Malta. The decision late Wednesday Feb. 22, 2017 to withdraw Budapest’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics is the third political defeat for Hungary’s populist prime minister in less than a year. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia,file)

Olympic bid withdrawal new setback for Hungarian leader

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

President of the civic Momentum Movement Andras Fekete-Gyor, center, submits the collected signatures of Budapest residents against the bid of the Hungarian capital to host the the 2024 summer Olympic games in Budapest, in the Municipal Electoral Office, in Budapest, Hungary, Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. (Noemi Bruzak/MTI via AP)

Mayor says Budapest may decide next week on Olympic bid

By PABLO GORONDI - Associated Press

In this Aug. 13, 2016, file picture a person on motorbike passes a government poster promoting the Oct. 2 referendum against any EU quotas to resettle migrants. reading "Did you know?" Hungarians will vote Sunday in a referendum called by Prime Minister Viktor Orbans government, seeking political support against any future plans by the European Union to resettle refugees or asylum seekers among members of the bloc. (AP Photo/ Pablo Gorondi, file)

A look at Hungary’s referendum on EU refugee quotas

By Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press

A migrant enters the territory of Hungary by crossing the temporary protection fence along the Hungarian-Serbian border at Roszke, 180 kms southeast of Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Sept. 7, 2015. (Edvard Molnar/MTI via AP)

Migrants keep entering Hungary as work on fence speeds up

By Balint Szlanko and Pablo Gorondi - Associated Press