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Ex-Communist admirer of fascists László Kövér to dedicate Catholic Chapel in...
László Kövér is 55 years old. He is the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly and also a founding member of the ruling Fidesz party. He started his remarkable political career as a junior...
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Ex-Communist László Kövér has no business dedicating Catholic chapel
The August 29th dedication of the new Chapel (Magyarok Nagyasszonya kápolna) at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC will start with a Solemn Mass...
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Far-right publisher and Hungarian diplomats at Lake Hope “Itt-Ott” event
At the end of September Péter Turcsány suddenly passed away in Hungary, he was 64 years old and a well-known figure in Hungary’s far-right circles. His Pomáz-based publishing house, Kráter, is the...
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Tricky photo angles hide low turnout at the dedication of the Hungarian...
Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi, Hungary’s top diplomat to Washington wanted to make the dedication of the Hungarian Chapel in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception a major...
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Orbán is isolated, US Vice President Biden ignores him
On November 18, 2015, the US Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration, Anne Richard, met Hungarian Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi at the State Department in Washington DC. There was no...
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Hungarian diplomats celebrate with neo-Nazi Jobbik in New York City
Hungary’s previous ambassador to Washington DC., western-educated Mr. György Szapáry refused to meet with leaders and supporters of Hungary’s neo-Nazi Jobbik party. He would walk out from the room if...
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US Jewish leaders are outraged by Hungarian official’s misrepresentation
US Jewish leaders are outraged that Hungarian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Levente Magyar incorrectly claimed that they had described recent comments about antisemitism in Hungary as...
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Boycott, no-show at US events commemorating the 1956 Hungarian Revolution
On October 23 about 300 of us were eagerly waiting for Willie Brown at the Green Room of the San Francisco War Memorial Center. The elegant hall has a gorgeous wraparound balcony with a magnificent...
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Orbán is misreading Trump – he might be in for a big surprise
In September Hungary’s Ambassador to Washington Réka Szemerkényi met Senator Jeff Sessions, a Trump confidant, to express Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s admiration and support for Mr. Trump....
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Donald Trump: I’m a big fan of Hungary!
American President-elect Donald Trump reportedly told Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that he is a “big fan of Hungary,” after which he promised over the telephone to invite the controversial Hungarian...
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Ambassador Réka Szemerkényi exploits Zsa Zsa’s memory for political purposes
Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, Zsa Zsa’s ninth husband, is upset that he didn’t get to throw a 100th birthday party for his wife; Gábor died two months shy of the birthday. Her husband allegedly wanted to...
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Márton Gyöngyösi, pro-Iranian Jobbik MP attended US Intelligence, Terrorism...
Hungarian politicians often visit Canada and the Unites States. Lately, serious questions have been raised about their activities: Do these politicians represent a security risk? Thirty-nine year-old...
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Hungarian diplomats celebrate President Trump’s inauguration in Washington DC
Last Saturday, January 21, millions marched worldwide to protest the inauguration of President Trump. On the same day Hungary’s Ambassador to Washington, Réka Szemerkényi, organized a party to...
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s pro-Iranian Hungarian friends
Republican Congresswoman from Tennessee Marsha Blackburn is pleased with President Trump’s executive order to bar Syrian refugees and block citizens of seven countries, among them Iran, from entering...
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Ambassador Szemerkényi claims that she had discussions with President Trump...
One of the tricks used by Hungarian diplomats is to walk up to a prominent US politician, snap a photo as proof of their “close relationship” and distribute it with a misleading caption. A couple of...
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Sebastian Gorka – Orbán’s man in the Trump White House
This is the fourth installment of a series of articles appearing in HFP on the meteoric rise of Sebastian Gorka, President Trump’s counterterrorism adviser. Recently questions have been raised about...
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Marymount University should cancel Szemerkényi’s commencement speech
Many of our readers have probably never heard of Marymount University, a small Catholic school in Arlington, Virginia. A couple of months ago they announced that in May the commencement speech of the...
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One would be hard pressed to find a western government more openly and intrinsically opposed to the social teachings of the Roman Catholic Church than that of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán....
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Hungarian Consul acquitted
Stephen Gergatz, ex-honorary Hungarian Consul in New Orleans and Sarasota, made news in Hungary and abroad earlier this year, when he was arrested on Casperson Beach, in Florida. This month, Mr....
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J.D. Gordon, Paul Behrends, Hungary and the Russian connection
There is a suspicion that the Orbán government played a role in building a “bridge” between Russian President Putin and President elect Trump. At this point, we don’t know whether this “bridge...
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