The BUDAPEST PHOTO FESTIVAL is the biggest photography event in Hungary. In its’ third year in 2019, it opens with a real gem on the…

Jobbik executive vice president Márton Gyöngyösi posted an interesting discussion on Facebook about the new year: Meeting with citizens, we are often asked: What does…

Emigration of the workforce represented by young people is becoming such a difficult problem to tackle in Transylvania that the city of Sepsiszentgyörgy (Sfântu Gheorghe)…

Hungary posted a 496 million euro trade surplus in November, down by 186 million from the same month a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office…

The Hungarian government has purchased 19th-century painter Mihály Munkácsy’s monumental piece Golgotha, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said on Wednesday. The government paid…

Gábor Rakonczay became the first Hungarian ever to walk to the South Pole on 7 January, when his team finished the 44-day-long expedition. The team…

The Hungarian card or Tell card has played an important role in the childhood of many Hungarians, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries. An…

Double-digit passenger traffic growth in 2018 resulted in approximately 14.9 million passengers in total at Budapest Airport, making the capital city airport of Hungary the…

According to data published by the International Car Hunting Association, in Hungary, the most stolen car models are those that were imported from the west….

A demonstration in Brussels by the Radical European Democrats (RED) dubbed “Stop Orbán” is not about Hungary’s new labor code, the judicial system or the…

Dutch Green MEP Judith Sargentini, author of a report critical of the state of the rule of law in Hungary approved by the European Parliament…

The legendary Hungarian Gundel Restaurant will provide all catering services in the new residency of Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán. The restaurant won the tender,…

Trade unions demand the withdrawal of labour code amendments, changes to the strike law, fair wages and a flexible pension system in a letter addressed…

The opposition Socialists’ candidate for Budapest mayor Csaba Horváth announced his programme on Tuesday, promising to address the city’s main problem which he defined as…

The Hungarian National Defence Force announced right before Christmas that they are not only going to purchase 44 new Leopard 2A7+ tanks but also 24…

Hungary has again made it clear that it does not want to become a country of immigrants and insists that the direction of the European…

The United Nations Global Migration Compact is “clearly a peril for the whole world”, which could trigger further waves of migration, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó…

Hungary is sending new police contingents to help patrol the Macedonian-Greek and Serbian-Macedonian borders, the national police said on its website on Tuesday. The national…

Henry Cavill has arrived in Hungary because of his lead role in the new Netflix series, The Witcher, which is at least partially shot here….

Are you familiar with the most-known Hungarian cake in the world? You may not be acquainted with József Dobos’s name in itself, but Dobos cake…

On Sunday (6th of January 2018), a group of Hungarian cooks have made some dishes to people in Rome, as a charity gift. All the…

Industrial output in Hungary grew by an annual 4 percent in November, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a first reading of data on…

Hungary’s comprehensive online invoicing system has been operating seamlessly since its introduction in July 2018 and has contributed to a 403 billion forint jump (EUR…

WING sold the former Angel Office (Angyal Irodaház) to B&B Hotels, and they will turn it into an economy hotel for the French company. B&B…

There is no “mood for striking” in Hungary and support for protests has not grown in the past few weeks, political scientist Zoltán Kiszelly told…

The year ahead could see a turning point in the fight against climate change and this opportunity must not be wasted, President János Áder said…

The internationally known European Statistics Office – Eurostat – recently revealed their statistics about the situation of the continent’s health and healthcare. The results, unfortunately,…

The commission of Hungarian, Slovak, Polish and Czech historians preparing the beatification process of János Esterházy, a leader of Slovakia’s ethnic Hungarian community between the…

An anti-government cooperation is formulating in Hungarian politics that includes beyond opposition parties trade unions and civil groups, the Hungarian Liberal Party’s candidate for Budapest…

The European Commission paid out a total 4.4 billion euros (over 1,400 billion forints) in development subsidies to Hungary in the course of 2018, Tamás…

It is quite unusual to mention modelling and culinary delights on the same page, but Nelli Tombor is one of the fortunate exceptions. Besides her…

Hungarian gastronomy is famous for a number of things. Whether you like meat dishes, are a fan of the famous sour cream or have a…

Scroll down for the coolest newly-opened places in Budapest – collected by Funzine.  Ne pazarolj! 1027 Budapest, Fő utca 79. As we’re faced with more…

They will modernise the historical buildings of the Nyugati railway station, but the railway technology is yet to be improved upon. It was time that…

The Hungarian government signed a strategic partnership agreement with lighting company Tungsram on Monday. The agreement was signed by Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Tungsram…

From flamboyant uniforms to fast horses, this exhibition looks at the shared heritage between the Hungarian and British hussars. Hussars were often the eyes and…

Hungary has met with a tremendous amount of both national and international criticism in the past nine years, especially targeting the Prime Minister’s attitude towards…

The analysis of the Hungarian National Meteorological Service states that according to the recorded measurements since 1901, 2018 was the hottest year ever in Hungary…

Hungary’s government is committed to strengthening national cohesion among all Hungarians, regardless of whether they live in the Carpathian Basin or in any other part…

The so-called Mundo project is finally about to start in Budapest’s 14th District, Zugló. Mundo will be a multi-functional shopping and entertainment centre. The project…

Among the participants in recent demonstrations against new overtime regulations were organisations on US billionaire George Soros’s payroll, the parliamentary group leader of ruling Fidesz…

Budapest is an ideal travel destination no matter what your motives are. Whether you want to experience the culture and explore all the sights or…

The conjoined Bangladeshi twins joined at the skull, whose separation the Hungarian surgeon team of the Action for Defenceless People Foundation was the only one…

It is pretty apparent at this point that the Hungarian language is one of our most popular topics on this site. It is definitely a…

There is no need to introduce one of the most iconic scenes in Game of Thrones, where the Freys and the traitor Boltons massacre Robb…

Szeged is a gem in the south-eastern part of Hungary.  It is sometimes called the city of sunshine as it is the place where the…

For Hungarians Christianity means not only theological traditions but also a social setting which has determined the conditions for human dignity, the family, the nation,…

Hungary reopened its embassy in Ecuador in 2015 and Lilla Kántor, who is a Hungarian architect from the city of Veszprém (Veszprém County), applied for…

Hungary reopened its embassy in Ecuador in 2015 and Lilla Kántor, who is a Hungarian architect from the city of Veszprém (Veszprém County), applied for…

Opposition parties and trade unions protested against the amendments to the labour code in Szolnok in central Hungary and Debrecen in eastern Hungary on Saturday….

The conservative opposition Jobbik party will submit an appeal to the Kúria, Hungary’s supreme court, against a decision by the National Election Committee, which rejected…

In the world-known 1996 movie winning 9 Academy Awards, László Almásy is portrayed as an English pilot who is wounded in a plane crash and is…

An anti-government demonstration started on Heroes’ Square in Budapest today afternoon, with the participants moving through Andrássy Avenue towards the Parliament building. Opposition parties called…

The American Bar Association is concerned that Hungary’s creation of a parallel court system overseen by a politically appointed justice minister threatens to further erode…

Hungarian town Miskolc’s (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County) Tatra 202-type tram successfully kept the title of Europe’s most beautiful Advent tram. The competition started on the 13th of…

The hospital centre at Nagyvárad Square will be able to serve a quarter of the capital and will be directly connected to a metro station….

Swedish-founded multinational company IKEA announced that this year, they would like to broaden their ‘IKEA Second Chance’ program to Hungary as well. The exact date…

We already reported about the most beautiful castles HERE and HERE. We also wrote about the best castle hotels HERE. Now here are five additional…

Industrial producer prices rose by 5.1 percent in November from the same month a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Friday. Prices…

Hungary has several beautiful buildings including historical ones like the Buda Castle, the Castle of Gödöllő and the Firewatch Tower in Sopron. The country will…

Studying abroad is a great opportunity from many perspectives. You can travel the world, get acquainted with different cultures, meet people from all over the…

Opposition parties and civil groups staged demonstrations to protest against recent changes to the labour code in Pécs (S) and Szombathely (W) on Friday evening….

The opposition Socialist Party has accused the government of lying in a written rebuttal of the so-called Sargentini report. Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi told a…

Something unique started at the end of the 18th century: Dr Zwack created a mixture for medical purposes, even getting the attention of the likes…

A letter written by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to supporters of the ruling Fidesz party, noting the importance of the May European parliamentary elections, has…

There was a man who came from a family which used to earn a living out of corn planting, but he wanted more. Since then he worked…

We have been waiting for a long time to finally be able to get to Budapest Airport by train. Unfortunately, it seems like we still…

In 2018 it was the 100th anniversary of Transylvania becoming part of the entity today called Great Romania. As a Romanian and Transylvanian, I have…

Let’s start the year with the comedic capers at The Studios as Laugh Budapest Laugh delivers the best of English language comedy in the city….

The government has set up an institute specialising in the research of Hungarian history and the development of tourism and education. The institute, known as…

Opposition LMP members and supporters will take part in Saturday’s opposition demonstration in Heroes’ Square, moving on to Kossuth Square, an LMP official has said….

04 January 2019 Currency Currency name Unit Value in HUF CHF Swiss Franc 1 285.43 EUR Euro 1 321.25 USD US Dollar 1 281.72 Here…

Even Brexit could not dethrone the United Kingdom, leading the Forbes list of investment-friendly countries in the last few years. Their secret is innovation, excellent…

Retail energy prices in Hungary are among the lowest in Europe, business daily Világgazdaság said on Friday, citing a survey of 29 European countries carried…

Opposition parties, civil organisations and trade unions held an anti-government protest in Szeged, in southern Hungary, on Thursday. The protesters almost filled Dugonics Square in…

With a view to implementation of the Paris climate accord, an environmental non-profit will be established in the Western Balkans and Hungary is poised to…

Between September and November 2018, unfortunately, the number of employed people in Hungary – approximately 4.8 million – started to decrease again, but this is…

Azonnali met Jan Zahradil, MEP and Spitzenkandidat of European Conservatives and Reformists in his office in the European Parliament last December, where we asked him…

An Afghan refugee has been sentenced in an accelerated procedure to community service for assaulting a couple near Budapest’s Keleti railway station on New Year’s…

The Antalya – Berlin flight of Sun Express landed at Budapest Airport after one of their passengers indicated she feels bad. Staff of flight XQ…

To welcome the New Year, we compiled a quiz for you about the Hungarian language. Go ahead and answer the following 13 questions and test…

Hungarian households spend almost twice as much on alcoholic drinks than the EU average. This means that we spend the most in the region and…

The Budapest Zoo is home to 8,807 animals of 856 species, which makes the collection one of Europe’s most diverse, the zoo said in a…

Budapest is famous for its architecture. We can find several buildings which commemorate the old city’s look back in the past of the Hungarian capital….

Government efforts to boost investment set new records in 2018 both in terms of the number of projects and their combined value, the foreign minister…

03 January 2019 Currency Currency name Unit Value in HUF CHF Swiss Franc 1 287.45 EUR Euro 1 322.55 USD US Dollar 1 283.54 Here…

A special session of parliament lacked quorum on Thursday because ruling party lawmakers stayed away from it. The event had been initiated by parties of…

Hungary was not only the host of several prestigious sports events in 2018 but was successful both at home and at foreign fields. Let us…

There may be many reasons as to why you’re considering picking up and moving homes. No matter why you’re choosing to start looking around so you…

The Hungarian National Gallery (in Hungarian: Magyar Nemzeti Galéria) collections cover Hungarian art in all genres, including the works of many nineteenth- and twentieth-century Hungarian…

There was a cult in China at the beginning of the 20th century around Hungarian poet Sándor Petőfi because of his poems about national freedom…

Hungary’s rolling average three-month jobless rate was 3.6 percent in November, down from 3.7 percent in the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said…

Conservative opposition Jobbik on Wednesday accused the government of having imposed a “comprehensive austerity package” which it has attempted to sell to the public through…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held bilateral talks with new Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro during his working visit to Brazil on Wednesday, Orban’s press chief said….

We tend to say Hungarians are good at everything. A little bit of this, a little bit of that – the famous Hungarian ingenuity. Joking…

The Pearl of the Danube is the perfect place for a wide variety of festivals, both in style and theme, and the fact that Hungarians…

The new premises of the Prime Minister’s Office in the Buda castle district are an overpriced prestige investment and a display of lavish extravagance, the…

A young girl tried to ignite the Hungarian national flag above the entrance of the regional headquarter of the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania (RMDSZ)…

Soldiers and other employees of the military will receive a 7.4 percent pay rise in January, as opposed to an originally planned 5 percent, Szilárd…

Hungary’s government will increase general maternity benefits as well as maternity benefits for university students or graduates and introduce a new subsidy for parents tending…

We have all been there: the New Year’s Eve party went “too” well, had one drink more than you needed, or you just got the dirty…

Hungary’s ambulance service responded to 2,890 emergencies during New Year’s Eve celebrations, 830 of which were called in from Budapest, the service’s communications chief said…

János Áder, Hungary’s president, addressed fellow citizens on New Year’s Day in a public media broadcast just after midnight, wishing them a happy New Year…

New Year’s Eve was, yet again, quite eventful in Hungary. People were celebrating all over the country, and luckily, MTI captured many of those wonderful…

Gellért Hill, together with the Liberty Statue and the Citadella on top, is a sight not to be missed by tourists visiting Hungary. The Hotel…

2019 is packed with major headliners! World-famous musicians from all over the world will visit our beloved capital next year. There will be a concert…

The girl used the successor of Musical.ly app, TikTok, to create her video. Then it was posted to Facebook and went viral immediately. Musical.ly was…

Milán Rácmolnár is a talented, young Hungarian photographer who always dazzles his audience with his new perspectives and creative ideas. His latest publication features Christmastime…

The Hungarian government’s main aim in 2019 is to maintain a strengthening and thriving Hungary that retains its security, a Cabinet Office official said on…

Thanks to Fortepan, we are able to travel back in time to some extent and get a glimpse of how our ancestors celebrated the New…

If we wanted to rate the hospitals according to which one is the worst, we would have problems choosing categories to rate them accordingly. Should…

Hungarian cities with county status this year have tapped a total 150 billion forints (EUR 465m) for development projects under the government’s Modern Cities scheme,…

An interesting duality can be observed in the Hungarian public opinion concerning the country’s foreign affairs. Although Hungarians had a pro-Western attitude for decades, yet…

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s “lecturing” others about Christian Democracy “is a bad joke”, the Hungarian foreign minister said on Sunday. Péter Szijjártó insisted that…

For the last day of this year and the first week of the next, the weather seems to bring clouds, winds and rain, occasionally mixed…

The minimum wage in Hungary will increase by 8 percent on Jan. 1, the finance minister announced on Sunday. It will go up by another…

Since Michelin Guide does not travel around in the countryside of Austria, the Taubenknobel, which was formerly awarded two Michelin stars is now a place…

Influencers are essential on social media sites and for the advertisement market. They are available on the most popular social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram,…

Hungary is a little gem in the heart of Central Europe. More and more people have been discovering the country as an excellent tourist destination…

Forbes Hungary collected the wealthiest people of the country for the fifth time in 2018. The first has never been this rich. Nobody ever had…