Sources: Reuters
Hungarian prime minister-designate Péter Magyar says his election victory over Viktor Orbán will not lead to a policy shift on migration, saying his government will strengthen borders and "protect our country and Europe" from illegal immigration. 2026-04-16
The European Court of Justice fines Germany {{Euro}}34 million (US$36.7 million) for failing to implement a European Union law to protect whistleblowers by 2021. The Court also fines Czechia {{Euro}}2.3 million, Hungary {{Euro}}1.5 million, and Luxembourg and Estonia {{Euro}}500,000 each for the same reason. 2025-03-6
One person is killed and four others are injured when a car bomb explodes outside a police station in Barzeh, Damascus, Syria. 2023-05-10
Hungary begins administering the COVID-19 vaccine for children between the ages of 5 and 11 years using the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. 2021-12-15
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, warns Hungary to repeal its controversial amendments to its Child Protection Act, which bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to "promote homosexuality", or else face "the full force of EU law". Poland is expected to block any attempt to impose the maximum EU penalty of suspending Hungary's voting rights. 2021-07-7
ISIL agrees to hand over control of Yarmouk Camp in southern Damascus to the Syrian Army in return for safe passage to ISIL-held territory in the Syrian Desert, bringing the predominantly Palestinian refugee district under government control for the first time since 2012. 2018-04-20
A U.N. and Syrian Arab Red Crescent interagency convoy brings food and medical aid to 40,000 people on the verge of starvation in the towns of Kafr Batna and Saqba in the Eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus for the first time since June 2016. 2017-10-30
The Hungarian newspaper "Népszabadság" shuts down after 60 years amid significant financial losses. 2016-10-8
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
Syrian civil war: Rebels claim control of the strategic town of Maarrat al-Nu'man on the main road linking Damascus to Aleppo. 2012-10-10