US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo voiced hope Monday that renewed American engagement with Hungary's Viktor Orban would help steer the increasingly authoritarian leader away from Russian and Chinese influence.

Pompeo seeks to woo Hungary's Orban away from Russia, China

Hungarian women with big families to pay no tax: Viktor Orban

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is hoping to stall inroads of Russian and Chinese influence as he visits two of the European Union's most quarrelsome members, Hungary and Poland.

Pompeo seeks to end Hungary's eastward drift on Europe trip

Macedonia's fugitive former premier Nikola Gruevski said Saturday he fled to Hungary despite being sentenced for abuse of power after he received a threat that he would be killed in jail.

Ex-Macedonian PM says death threat forced him to flee

Thousands marched through Budapest's city center on Saturday to protest against a new law that allows employers to ask staff to work up to 400 hours per year of overtime.

Thousands rally against Hungary's overtime work law, PM Orban

Thousands of Hungarians marched to the presidential palace late on Friday to protest against reforms to the labour code as a rally led by spoof political party MKKP merged with a subsequent demonstration staged by opposition groups.

Thousands Hungarians hit streets in fresh protest against Viktor Orban's reforms

About 2,000 Hungarians protested at the state television building to demand independent public media and courts on Monday in the latest gathering uniting a fragmented opposition in action against right-wing Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Hungarians demand independent public media, courts

Anti-government demonstrations in Budapest on Friday ended in clashes for a consecutive third night between police and protesters angry at Prime Minister Viktor Orban's controversial new laws on workers rights and the judicial system.

Protesters, police clash in Hungary for third straight night

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban hailed Friday US President Donald Trump's isolationist speech at the United Nations as marking a welcome end to American interference in other countries' affairs.

Hungary PM hails 'icon' Trump's isolationist UN speech

Orban's ruling Fidesz party holds 133 of 199 seats in Hungary's parliament which ensures the necessary two-third majority to change any laws

PM Orban flags big changes in Hungary's constitution

Zoran Zaev, prime minister of the former Yugoslav republic, said Wednesday that negotiations with Athens to resolve the 27-year-old dispute were in 'the final stages'

Thousands join rightwing protest against Macedonia name change

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Tens of thousands of people participated in the mass rally in Budapest on Saturday against the government control over the media which reportedly helped Prime Minister Viktor Orban taking sweeping victory in recent polls

Tens of Thousands of Hungarians stage protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said he expects his conflict with the liberal ideology of US financier George Soros' Open Society Foundations (OSF) to continue despite the organisation's decision to leave the country

Hungary PM Orban says expects ongoing fight over migration

The crowd of protesters were chanting 'We are the majority' as they staged a protest demanded a recount of ballots and new election law to make the system more democratic

Tens of thousands of people hold anti-Orban protest in Hungary's Budapest

With almost 98 per cent of votes counted, Viktor Orban's Fidesz party has won 48.81 per cent of the vote

Hungary's PM Viktor Orban claims victory as his party takes sweeping poll lead

UN rights watchdog urged the nationalist government to reject draft laws known as the "Stop-Soros Package" that would empower the interior minister to ban non-governmental organisations that support migration and pose a 'national security risk'

UN rights watchdog urges Hungary to halt hate speech, protect refugees

Viktor Orban is a hard-liner on immigration and would be selected for a third straight term in a Sunday election

Hungary expected to give nationalist Prime Minister Orban third term

Hungary's PM Viktor Orban has urged the electorate to spurn the EU deal, which wants to share migrants around the 28 member states through mandatory quotas

Hungary votes on EU's refugee quota plan, government slammed for whipping up Xenophobia

The asylum claims of refugees arriving from African countries should be processed there, said Viktor Orban

EU should set up giant refugee city in Libya: Hungary PM

March accord between EU and Turkey succeeded in stemming the flow of migrants but there are concerns that it could fall apart

European Commission head Juncker: EU-Turkey migrant deal at risk of breaking down

Influx of Muslim refugees, migrants into the EU poses a security threat and threatens the continent's Christian identity: PM Orban

Hungary's 'anti-immigration' PM faces workforce shortage amid population slump

Opposition parties said the sweeping new powers could be misused by Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who has been under attack for weakening checks and balances in the constitution, to seize more power.

Hungary gives government extra powers in face of "terror threat"

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