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Hungary reverses decision to leave ICC, Magyar announces

This decision comes a month after Magyar stated that if Hungary remains an ICC member and a person wanted by the court enters its territory, “that person must be taken into custody.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar speaks during a press conference with Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker (not pictured) in Vienna, Austria, May 21, 2026.
In this handout photo provided by NBCUniversal, Laszlo Nemes accepts the awards for Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language for "Son of Saul" onstage during the 73rd Annual Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on January 10, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

'An orgy of antisemitism is overtaking the West,' says acclaimed Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks alongside former Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban in Budapest last year. Orban transformed Hungary into a quasi-autocracy, while Netanyahu has not achieved the same in Israel, the writer says.

Are new Knesset proposals pushing Israel toward Hungary-style governance? - opinion

Hungarian Prime Minister Peter Magyar and new members of government.

Hungary PM Magyar gives veto power to key ministers in his cabinet following new EU sanctions


Israeli PM Netanyahu to visit Hungary before Easter -Hungary PM Orban's chief of staff

Orban said he would guarantee that Netanyahu's recent ICC arrest warrant would "not be observed."

Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during joint statements at the Prime Minister’s Office.

'Budapest is ours': Annual neo-Nazi holiday celebration commences in Hungary

Thousands of individuals—many of whom wore far-right insignia and Nazi uniforms—participated in a 'memorial hike' from Buda Castle.

 European far-right groups gather in Budapest each year for the so-called "Day of Honour" to mark a failed attempt by Nazi and Hungarian troops in 1945 to break out of the city during the Soviet army's siege.

240 Hungarian schools evacuate over bomb threat, including Jewish school

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced heightened security measures and ongoing investigations following the series of bomb threats that disrupted schools across Hungary.

 A traffic warden and a police officer stand in front of an empty school in Budapest on January 23, 2025 following bomb threats. Schools across Hungary received bomb threats on January 23, 2025.

Hungary's Orban: Donald Trump will set off new right-wing surge in Europe

The nationalist premier, a long-time Trump supporter, envisages a "golden era" for relations between the US and EU member state Hungary under Trump's presidency.

 US President Trump meets with Hungary's Prime Minister Orban at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2019

Raoul Wallenberg Day: Remembering the hero who saved 100,000 Jews – opinion

Remembering Raoul Wallenberg, a hero who risked it all to save thousands of Jews from the Holocaust.

Raoul Wallenberg

Bow, horn plate, a silver hair ring: 10th century female warrior tomb found in Hungary

Researchers identified the first known female burial mound in the Carpathian Basin from this period.

 Bow, horn plate, a silver hair ring: 10th century female warrior tomb found in Hungary.

Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather drafted a Nazi-era antisemitic law, is writing a novel on fascism

Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai, whose grandfather wrote WWII-era laws that Jews from public spaces, will be writing a book on fascism.

 Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber.

Hungary's EU minister to 'Post': 'If we lose our Jewish communities, we lose our European identity'

ANTISEMITISM AFFAIRS: Bóka warned that the threat to Jewish life in Europe, resulting from rising antisemitism in the Western countries of the EU is a threat to Europe.

 DURING THE last six months Hungarian Minister for EU Affairs János Bóka had the very delicate mission of managing the rotating Hungarian presidency of the EU. Here, Boka attends a panel discussion at the Budapest Balkans Forum 2024 meeting in Budapest in March.

US Supreme Court questions Holocaust restitution lawsuit against Hungary

Supreme Court justices signal skepticism about allowing Holocaust victims to pursue stolen property cases against Hungary in US courts.

A view of the U.S. Supreme Court building on the first day of the court's new term in Washington, U.S. October 3, 2022.

Hungary's Orban snubs ICC arrest warrant with Netanyahu invite

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó also criticized the ICC’s warrant as “absurd.”

Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during joint statements at the Prime Minister’s Office.