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The National
4 days ago
- Sport
- The National
Cluj owner drops major hint on future of Celtic-linked Louis Munteanu
Romanian outlet claimed last night that the Parkhead club had an €8 million (£6.9m) offer knocked back for the striker, who scored 25 times last season. It now looks like he's off to France, however. Varga said [ "It's a club in France that, up until now, is the most serious in terms of professionalism. "I understand that they will resolve some issues these days, then we will sit down at the negotiating table, so that the boy can go for a medical examination. Read more: "I never mentioned the name of the club. I only said France. I only said that it is a top team from France. I don't know who checked what. "I didn't mention any names. It is about a concrete interest from France and from Spain, but the Spaniards gave up because they didn't reach the amount I asked for. In pole position is France." Varga added: "I know clearly what offer we have, what discussions we have, and I know very clearly that that club asked me not to talk. "That's why I'm not talking. I'm not interested in advertising. I'm interested in doing our job. Both we and they have a common goal: not to distort the information. "We don't want anything to be published before everything is done by the book, professionally. At no big club in this world is there any talk before a transfer is made. They prepare, they do things silently, and when they sign, they announce it."
Sunday World
5 days ago
- Sunday World
Romanian man accused of ‘looting' house left vacant after Ballymena rioting
Sergiu Varga is charged with burglary of a property on Clonavon Terrace The defence team for a Romanian man accused of 'looting' a house which had been left vacant over recent rioting in Ballymena, 'are having considerable difficulties' finding him a bail address, a court heard today. As Sergiu Varga appeared at Ballymena Magistrates Court by video link from prison, a prosecutor asked fir the case against the 24-year-old to be adjourned for three weeks. She told Deputy District Judge John Rea the file had been 'allocated to a senior prosecutor,' adding that by the next time the case is before the court, there should be a decision as to how it will proceed. Varga, of no fixed abode, is charged with burglary of a property on Clonavon Terrace on 19 June where he allegedly stole 'household goods' to the value of £3,000 and with the theft of £13 of food from Braid River Service Station on 9 March this year. When the defendant first appear in court, a police officer recounted how Varga had walked in to the filling station, concealed various food items under his coat before walking out 'making no attempt to pay.' Sergiu Varga Today's News in 90 Seconds - July 17th On 19 June, she told the court, a resident of a house on Clonavon Terrace reported that her house had been burgled. 'The injured party reported that she had to leave her address on 14 June due to the disturbances in the town,' said the officer, adding that when the victim returned on 19 June, she discovered 'an upstairs window had been smashed…and that all of her valuable belongings had been taken.' The court heard that having 'made some enquiries in the local community,' Varga was identified as the alleged thief but when the victim spoke to him, he claimed 'he was only keeping them [her belongings] for safe keeping.' Sergiu Varga The officer added that as well as the victim not giving anyone permission to enter her home or remove her property, 'while she was trying to locate the defendant she saw a male person wearing a set of headphones that belonged to her.' The victim spoke to that man and he claimed he had bought the head phones from Varga for £11. Arrested and interviewed, Varga 'admitted taking the items but said that he found them outside and that he did not enter the property at any stage.' In court today, Varga's defence counsel said while bail had been granted, that was subject to an approved address, conceding that 'we are having considerable difficulty getting an address.' Remanding Varga back into custody, Judge Rea adjourned the case to 7 August.
Budapest Times
09-07-2025
- Politics
- Budapest Times
Former Justice Minister Judit Varga had the skills to be prime minister, prime minister says
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said former Justice Minister Judit Varga had the skills to be prime minister. During an interview posted on the YouTube channel of Mandiner on Sunday morning, PM Orbán told the Hotel Lentulai podcast that the appearance of a 'born talent' such as Judit Varga was 'extremely rare' in politics. He highlighted the importance of experience on which to build and said Varga would have needed another four to eight years, but added that she possessed everything required for somebody to take charge of a country and make important decisions. He called Varga 'brilliant' and said what had happened to her was 'painful and infuriating'as well as a 'great waste' for the country. PM Orbán said Varga had 'suffered through' the last year or year and a half in office, wanting to resign on at least three ocassions, saying she couldn't take what was happening at home. 'She held out as long as she could,' he added. PM Orbán said timing was the most important in the tactical part of politics, adding that a governing party required self-discipline and could only deal with the opposition 10-15 percent of the time during a non-campaign period, as Hungary is in now. That ratio will ramp up when preparations for the campaign are made, but that point still lies ahead, he said. 'That is nothing compared to what is to come,' he added. PM Orbán said the debate was not with Peter Magyar or the Tisza Party, but with 'their masters'. He added that the foundational structure of Hungarian politics had been unchanged for decades: 'The question is: Who is your master?' PM Orbán said his was the Hungarian people: 'I belong to the Hungarian people, I serve the Hungarians'. He said that the opposition and their masters had never wanted what was good for Hungarians, rather they had looked abroad to find what the country might need. Foreign powers, who want to influence events in Hungary, always find those kind of people, he added. That is why the debate with the Tisza Party and Peter Magyar continues in Brussels from month to month, he said.
Euronews
04-07-2025
- Politics
- Euronews
Ex wife hits at Hungarian opposition leader Péter Magyar
The ex-wife of Hungary's opposition leader Péter Magyar has repeated accusations of domestic violence and blackmail against her former husband after a court hearing in Budapest. Judit Varga was the justice minister of Hungary for years and a close ally of Viktor Orbán. After their divorce, her ex-husband founded the opposition party Tisza, which is now leading Viktor Orbán's Fidesz in polls ahead of crucial parliamentary elections next year. Judit Varga was summoned to a court hearing as a witness in Budapest on Thursday related to a bribery case in her ministry, in which her former deputy is an accused. After the hearing, when she was asked whether she might make a possible comeback to public life, she lashed out at Péter Magyar to reporters. "I don't want to run in this competition if a thing called Péter Magyar is in the running," Varga said. She went on to reprise accusations that she had previously levelled against her ex-husband a year and a half ago. "Betrayal is not an achievement, especially not if it's a betrayal of our own family," she added. She referred to a voice file that was secretly recorded by Magyar back in 2003 when Varga was still the Minister of Justice in Viktor Orbán's government. On this voice file, Varga and Magyar can be heard in a private conversation, in which Varga referred to government interference in a court case, and Varga suggests a minister put pressure on prosecutors to delete sensitive lines from a document. Magyar released the recordings after founding the opposition Tisza party in 2024. Judit Varga speaks about blackmail, Magyar claims its government's deception ""What kind of person is this? When his wife can no longer bear the incredible drama and abuse she is living through and announces that she wants a divorce, he uses this vile manipulation. And while he is crying and begging, alternately terrorizing her that he can't divorce her, he starts blackmailing her," Varga said. Hungarian pro-government politicians and media have slammed Magyar for taping private conversations with his wife. As the election campaign proper gets underway, Magyar is coming under more pressure. On social media, government politicians and media personalities echoed solidarity with Varga. Péter Magyar has consistently denied claims of domestic violence over the past one-and-a-half years and was quick to react to the accusations of his ex in social media posts. "Neither now, nor in the future, do I wish to react to the accusations of this repeated propaganda. I wish that my former wife lived peacefully," he said, adding that the content of the voice files he recorded with his then-wife was clear. "With such a scandal in a real democracy, with genuine rule of law, the government would fail, and ministers would be detained. This will still happen eventually, but with a bit of delay," Magyar said, touting his potential election victory next year. Magyar later posted again claiming that the government was aiming to deflect attention from government members avoiding being jailed. "That's why they tried to drag the court hearing into the bog of lying tabloids again," Magyar added. Bitter divorce in the political spotlight Judit Varga and Péter Magyar divorced in 2023, and shortly afterwards, Varga resigned as justice minister in the wake of the infamous amnesty scandal. In this, a man who helped to cover up a paedophile crime in an orphanage received a presidential pardon, countersigned by Varga as Minister of Justice. The scandal badly damaged the government's reputation, and soon after, Péter Magyar founded his opposition party Tisza. According to recent opinion polls, Tisza could be in the lead ahead of Viktor Orbán's Fidesz, if elections were held now. Political analyst Szabolcs Dull said Varga's remarks reinforced the government's narrative against Péter Magyar. "By speaking about Péter Magyar, and calling him a creature who abused her mentally, this is strengthening the government's narrative. Judit Varga managed to divert the narrative that ministers had already been questioned in the court case and she managed to divert the narrative to the level of her relationship with Péter Magyar. Judit Varga's speech was useful for Fidesz," he said. Szabolcs Dull added that even if Varga doesn't return to Hungarian politics, she could prove useful to the government in the election campaign against Péter Magyar.
Observer
05-06-2025
- Business
- Observer
Oil steady after US stockpile build, Saudi Arabia price cuts
LONDON: Oil prices steadied on Thursday after falling more than 1% the previous day because of a build in US gasoline and diesel inventories and cuts to Saudi Arabia's July prices for Asia. Brent crude futures were up 23 cents, or 0.35%, at $65.09 a barrel by 1148 GMT. US West Texas Intermediate crude gained 16 cents, or 0.25%, to $63.01 a barrel. Oil prices closed around 1% lower on Wednesday after official data showed that US gasoline and distillate stockpiles grew more than expected, reflecting weaker demand in the world's largest economy. Geopolitics and the Canadian wildfires, which can reduce oil production, provide price support despite a potentially over-supplied market in the second half of the year with expected OPEC+ production hikes, PVM analyst Tamas Varga said. Adding to the weakness, Saudi Arabia, the world's biggest oil exporter, cut its July prices for Asian crude buyers to nearly the lowest in two months. The price cut by Saudi Arabia followed the OPEC+ move over the weekend to increase output by 411,000 barrels per day (bpd) for July. The strategy of OPEC's de facto leader Saudi Arabia is partly to punish over-producers by potentially unwinding 2.2 million bpd between June and the end of October, in a bid to wrestle back market share, Reuters previously reported. "Oil demand will be shaped by trade negotiations between the US and its trading partners," PVM's Varga said. Data on Wednesday showed that the US services sector contracted in May for the first time in nearly a year. On the trade front, US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that China's Xi Jinping was tough and "extremely hard to make a deal with", exposing friction between Beijing and Washington. Investors will watch US economic data such as payrolls, which may influence the US Federal Reserve's interest rate policy, while focus will be also on geopolitical tensions in the Middle East, UBS analyst Giovanni Staunovo said.— Reuters
