Sources: BBC Sky News
Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia impose national import bans on 24 Ukrainian agricultural products, including grains, vegetables, meat products, and honey. 2023-09-15
Hungary announces that a vote on Finland's membership application will take place on March 27. Fidesz parliamentary group leader Máté Kocsis says that Sweden's application will be considered at a later date. 2023-03-17
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán signs a decree allowing the deployment of NATO troops in western Hungary, and the transfer of lethal weapons across its territory to other NATO member states. However, the decree does not allow weapons shipments across its territory to Ukraine. 2022-03-7
Hungary reports its first two cases of the Lineage B.1.617 variant, which was first discovered in India. 2021-05-28
Hungary announces that hospitals are resuming elective surgeries, which had been suspended during the pandemic. However, due to the workload, altered circumstances, the vaccination campaign, and other factors, waiting list times have effectively doubled and are now one to two years for most patients. 2021-05-12
Hungary's ruling party Fidesz withdraws from the conservative European Parliament bloc European People's Party (EPP), after the EPP changed its rules to allow it to expel a party's entire delegation. Fidesz's membership had been suspended since 2019 after it accused then-European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and philanthropist George Soros of conspiring to "flood" Europe with migrants during a national campaign. 2021-03-3
Hungary approves the Chinese-made Sinopharm vaccine for use in the country, becoming the first EU member state to do so. 2021-01-29
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán announces that the country will maintain its COVID-19 restrictions until January 11. 2020-12-7
Croatian prime minister Zoran Milanović says Croatia will 'force' Hungary to accept migrants by sending them to the Hungarian border. Hungary responded angrily calling Milanović "pathetic" and accused Croatia of human smuggling. 2015-09-19
Hundreds of people, tired of waiting for promised transportation, broke out from Hungary's first migrant holding center near the Serbian border, past police overwhelmed by their numbers, to start the march north toward Budapest. The asylum seekers - migrants, now accompanied by groups of police, advanced along the edge of the main highway to the capital. 2015-09-7