The amendment declares that children's rights to moral, physical and spiritual development supersede any right other than the right to life, including the right to peaceful assembly.

Hungary's parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities, a decision that legal scholars and critics are calling another step toward authoritarianism.

The amendment, which required a two-thirds vote, passed along party lines with 140 votes for and 21 against.

The International Criminal Court (ICC) sent a request to the Hungarian government to arrest and surrender Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to its detention center in The Hague, due to the arrest warrant issued against him by the court last year, it emerged on Sunday.

According to a report by Channel 12 news, the surrender request was sent several hours after Netanyahu landed in the country on Thursday, but the Hungarian government refused to comply, and promptly announced it was quitting the ICC.

Hungary has said it will begin the process of withdrawing from the international criminal court, hours after the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu – the subject of an ICC arrest warrant – arrived in the country for an official visit.

“Hungary will withdraw from the ICC,” Gergely Gulyás, prime minister Viktor Orbán’s chief of staff, said. “The government will initiate the withdrawal procedure on Thursday in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework.”

Hungary has decided that the country will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the government said on Thursday, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in the country for a state visit.

"The government will initiate the withdrawal procedure on Thursday, in accordance with the constitutional and international legal framework," said Gergely Gulyás, chief of staff for Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Hungary is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court (ICC), the head of the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Thursday. The announcement coincided with the arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Budapest, where he is set to meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Hungary will withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), its government said Wednesday, as the country’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomed Israeli Prime Minister and ICC fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu to Budapest.

Netanyahu’s visit to Hungary marked the first time the Israeli leader stepped foot on European soil since the ICC issued an arrest warrant against him in May 2024.

The war in Ukraine could turn into the European Union’s “Afghanistan,” a grinding and costly engagement with “no way out,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed Friday.

Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a media event in Dubai, Orbán noted the hundreds of billions of euros in aid the EU has spent helping Ukraine resist Russia’s full-scale invasion, which Moscow launched three years ago this month.

Hungary has backed down from its veto threat and on Monday allowed the renewal of EU sanctions against Russia for an additional six months, bringing to a close the short-lived political saga that had put Brussels on edge.

The breakthrough was achieved during a meeting of foreign affairs ministers where a statement about "the integrity of the energy infrastructure" was put forward to placate Budapest's concerns, several diplomats told Euronews.

The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency has already marked the beginning of efforts to restore Hungary–US relations, which had reached a low point under the Biden administration, particularly during the tenure of former US Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman. Last Thursday, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán instructed his ministers of national economy and foreign affairs and trade to prepare an agreement aimed at reinstating the double taxation treaty between Hungary and the United States, which was terminated two years ago.