PM Viktor Orbán was in Warsaw on Tuesday for talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Jarosław Kaczynski, deputy prime minister and the head of the ruling party Prawo I Sprawiedliwość (Law and Justice) ​  

Current, strict coronavirus-related restrictions will be kept in place until January 11 – Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday. He added, that December 31 would be no exception, with a ban on New Year’s Eve parties. ​  

This is the official, English transcript of Prime Minister Orbán's response to EPP group leader Manfred Weber, who  stated in an online press conference on December 3 that the "rule of law mechanism", is not being set up expressly against Hungary and Poland. ​

Letter of Tamás Deutsch to Members of the EPP Group ​ Budapest, 4 December 2020 Honourable Colleagues,

Hungary insists that the economic issue of the EU budget and the recovery fund must be separated from the rule of law regulation that has led to political debates – said Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Kossuth Radio. ​

It was up to the EU’s German presidency to find a solution to the impasse – said Justice Minister Judit Varga, the first Hungarian to receive the institute’s Custos Virtutum award, during online debate – hosted by the Wacław Felczak Polish-Hungarian Cooperation Institute – on linking rule of law conditions to the payment of EU funds.

The government in Budapest has ordered local councils not to increase local and municipal taxes next year. Further, according to the finance ministry local councils must not introduce any new tax. ​

The light trams are back in Budapest and will illuminate the capital of Hungary up until January 6, 2021.  The tradition of decorating trams in Hungary began in 2009. Since then the Advent Light Trams have become an indispensable part of Budapest. This year the light trams have nearly 40,000 LED lights covering them.

Polandʼs economy rebounded in the third quarter after the relaxation of COVID-19 containment measures, final data published by the Warsaw-based Central Statistical Office (GUS) revealed on Monday.  ​  

An ideologically based justification for penalties flies in the face of European values and treaties – says Judit Varga, the Hungarian Justice Minister and laureate of the Guardian of Virtues award, in an interview with "Do Rzeczy" weekly ​

Dear Deputy Minister! Dear Director, dear Polish friends! ​

Despite being quite young, the Laureate's considerable experience acquired whilst working abroad and at the European Parliament in particular, means that recently hers was the loudest voice amongst those tackling issues associated with the Visegrád Group, observing the rule of law as well as family and children's rights – says Maciej Szymanowski (PhD), the director of the Polish-Hungarian Cooperation Institute.

As the editor-in-chief of Do Rzeczy Weekly, someone who in their writings does not shy away from the most difficult civilisational problems of the time, would you say that dr. Judit Varga winning the Guardian of Virtues, awarded by the aforementioned weekly is somewhat symptomatic?

Polish designer Wamhouse Studio has visualised the series of four houses that are based on the shape of the logos of some of the world's largest companies – including Adidas, Chevrolet, Renault and Mitsubishi. TRIHOUSE ​

“This is extremely dangerous for Europe’s cohesion, it is a bad solution that threatens a breakup of Europe in the future,” Morawiecki told a news conference. With the veto “we are defending the unity of the union" – he added. ​

 Joint Declaration of the Prime Minister of Poland and the Prime Minister of Hungary