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Marco Rubio comes to Budapest this week
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio is scheduled to visit Bratislava and Budapest on 15-16 February, the State Department said in a statement on Monday.
Marco Rubio will be in Budapest this week
Rubio will visit central Europe after attending the Munich Security Conference from 13 to 15 February, the statement said.
According to the statement, Rubio’s talks in Budapest will aim to “bolster our shared bilateral and regional interests, including our commitment to peace processes to resolve global conflicts and to the US-Hungary energy partnership.”
In Bratislava, Rubio will discuss nuclear energy cooperation, regional security, modernisation of the Slovak army, and Slovakia’s NATO commitments, the statement said.
Big European political divide between elite and ordinary citizens, Balázs Orbán says
A big divide has emerged between the political elite and ordinary citizens in European politics, Balázs Orbán, political director to the prime minister, said at the opening of the Budapest Global Dialogue 2026. Speaking on the panel Restoring Civilisational Self-Confidence: Which Values Secure Our Future?, he highlighted how social media algorithms now directly shaped the political content citizens encounter, raising questions about national sovereignty.
Organised by the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation, Orbán said at the event late on Monday that global tech giants controlled what appeared in users’ feeds, influencing perceptions of public issues. “If these systems are not neutral, they can reshape a country’s political environment,” he warned, casting the issue as one of democratic integrity and sovereignty, not just free speech.
Pretty ironic that our Politicians, who systematically consolidated friendly control over much of Hungarian media through allied oligarchs, are now concerned about who controls information flows?
“Sovereignty!” now apparently means controlling the platforms our Politicians friends, family and toadies don’t own or control yet.
@ Norbert in my country Belgium the media is dependent on the government’s financial drip! There are two press groups that own all the newspapers! Every year they receive more than 50 million euros to distribute their newspapers to their readers! Spread over an entire legislature, this means 750 million euros! The newspaper editorial offices are staffed by left-liberal journalists! There is a common thread running through their articles and that is that anything even remotely right-wing or conservative should be banned! In other words, one eats his bread, one speaks his words! So there is no free press because governments in Belgium highly espouse left-wing liberal ideology! Belgium is a federal country, and both regions have their own TV channels! There’s the French-speaking part of the country, and they have a public broadcaster! This one receives an annual subsidy paid by the taxpayer!The French-speaking part of the country is a left-wing socialist bastion! The news they are presented with is left to extreme left because the communists also get a lot of votes there! In other words, objectivity is an empty concept! In the Dutch speaking part of the country you have two TV channels!A left-liberal broadcaster whose owner also owns all the newspapers of the largest press group!The news they bring is left-leaning! They also get a lot of revenue from advertising! In addition, you also have a public broadcaster that receives more than 300 million euros in operating funds annually from the regional government!! The editorial offices are staffed with left-wing and green journalists! The Green Party are actually Crypto Communists! The news we are presented with is left to far left! In explanatory programs the same left-wing politicians are always invited and the moderators are also left-wing! In other words, the viewers are being brainwashed by the left! Now you should know that in Flanders there are about 1 million right-wing conservative voters! These are excluded from government participation because all other parties signed a charter stating that this right-wing party must never participate in a government! So 1 million voters who do pay taxes are completely ignored, yet with almost 30% of the voters, they are the largest party in Flanders! In my humble opinion, the word dictatorship is not out of place! By the way, they are almost never invited to political talk shows! The times they are invited, the politicians are constantly interrupted by the moderators!The reason is that this party opposes the mass immigration of asylum seekers! In 2025, 45,000 mostly young men applied for asylum! This costs Belgium billions of euros every year and now you should know that the total debt amounts to more than 600 billion euros! It also causes many social and crime problems! Of the 13,000 convicts in prison, 40% are from outside the EU and muslims! The current Prime Minister is a big fan of the WEF and is on good terms with Ursula von der Leyen! So to say that there is no free press in Hungary because Fidez controls almost everything is not an isolated case! By the way, the same practices are used in the Netherlands and Germany! I have no right to judge the upcoming elections in Hungary! What I do hope is that voters think very carefully, because once elected, there’s no turning back but hopefully Pandora’s box won’t be opened!!?
Another “dud” of Donald J. Trump’s appointments that has been a complete example of a “duck out of water”.
Trumps appointments to Senior government appointments continue to embarrass the United States of America just not internally in-side of America, but the Global World.
Respect & Trust – through D. J. Trump and his Government a Government and Presidency in CHAOS and SHATTERED.