Debrecen has made it once again to the top three on the prestigious Financial Times’ fDi (Foreign Direct Investment) European Cities and Regions of the Future’s…

Next week will mark the celebration of Hungarian film in Budapest, as the Hungarian Film Week and Film Awards will be held between 26th-29th of…

The MTA-SE Momentum Molecular Onco-Hematology Research Group at Semmelweis University investigated molecular changes in the therapy of one of the most common types of adult…

The solution to Europe’s demographic challenges is more children, Katalin Novák, Hungary’s deputy state secretary for family and youth affairs, said ahead of an international…

A number of high-ranking military officials were present at Orbán’s state-of-the-nation address. Since many view the speech as a party event, one of the organizers…

Addressing a Kyrgyz-Hungarian business forum in the Kyrgyz capital on Wednesday, Hungary’s minister of foreign affairs and trade lauded Hungary’s strategy of opening to the…

More than 50,000 people have signed an online petition on “saving” the Budapest Liget Project, the daily Magyar Nemzet said on Wednesday. People from almost…

The three Hungarian citizens who have flown home after staying on a Dutch cruise ship that recently docked in Cambodia and have been placed in…

Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leader of the opposition Democratic Coalition (DK), has been re-elected as leader of the leftist party, in a vote, the party said…

Nine European Union member states are prepared to turn to the European Court of Justice seeking the annulment of certain planned measures affecting road haulage…

The government will not consent to releasing any convicted criminal before their prison term is served, the justice minister said on Tuesday. Judit Varga reacted…

After forint hit an all-time low last week, it managed to firm to a new four-week high on Monday, hovering around 334.5. As we previously reported,…

Several Hungarian towns and cities are plagued by poor air quality due to a high concentration of airborne dust particles, the National Public Health Centre…

Krisztián B., also known as the ‘lye doctor,’ was sentenced last year to 11 years in prison for burning his ex-girlfriend’s genitalia and abdomen with…

Following Google’s deletion of two domestic, politically-themed YouTube channels for different reasons, one of them, pro-Fidesz political tabloid ‘Pesti Srácok,’ is set to organize a…

In January, the number of Hungarians applying for settled status in the United Kingdom due to Brexit reached a milestone. With more than 9,000 new…

The Budapest chief prosecutor’s office has raised charges against a Hungarian national based in the UK who ran an alleged pyramid scheme between 2012 and…

Independent MP Ákos Hadházy disrupted this year’s first parliamentary session by showing banners that criticized the government. The Speaker of the House has banned the…

Foreign and Trade Minister Péter Szijjártó, opening an Uzbek-Hungarian business forum in Tashkent on Tuesday, said Hungary belonged to an “elite club of 35 countries”,…

In November 1983, prestigious Renaissance paintings, including two Raphael artworks, were stolen by a group of Italian and Hungarian thieves from the Museum of Fine…

Hungary has prepared its Artificial Intelligence Strategy which addresses technical and human-sciences issues emerging from the evolution of AI, the innovation and technology minister said…

Hungarian police arrested members of a criminal organisation with ties to the UK in three locations on Monday, according to police.hu. The suspects are charged…

Opinions diverge sharply on Prime Minister Orbán’s annual address, in which he described the past ten years as modern Hungary’s most successful decade, and announced…

Two Hungarian citizens who have flown home after staying on a Dutch cruise ship that recently docked in Cambodia will be placed in quarantine as…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday had talks with US President Donald Trump by phone, the PM’s press chief told MTI. Orbán and Trump discussed…

By the end of this year, ABB Group will close its factory in Ózd, resulting in approximately 1,000-1,200 people losing their jobs in one of…

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) has hailed Sunday’s by-election victory by joint opposition candidate Gergely Kállő in Dunaújváros, in central Hungary, saying it had helped…

The government will submit a proposal aimed at suspending compensation payments to prisoners who sue the state over poor prison conditions, the justice minister told…

A lawmaker of the opposition Párbeszéd party said on Monday the party would act against “Fidesz and Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s hate-mongering campaign against Roma”….

The Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee has discussed the case of Gábor Kaleta, the former Hungarian ambassador to Peru who has been charged with child pornography, in…

Hungarians evacuated from Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, earlier this month were discharged from a Budapest hospital quarantine on Sunday, the head of…

Japan has decided to extend by two weeks the quarantine of the crew of a cruise ship stranded off the country’s coast because of a…

The teachers’ trade union PDSZ held a protest against Hungary’s new national curriculum (NAT) and the transformation of vocational training in Budapest on Friday. The…

The joint opposition candidate Gergely Kálló (Jobbik) beat independent but Fidesz-backed Tibor Molnár at the interim parliamentary election held in Fejér County’s district 4, centered in and…

On the pages of a liberal weekly, the new chairman of the formerly far-right party suggests that opposition parties should face the next elections with…

The non-parliamentary Mi Hazánk party demanded “order in the country” at a protest attended by several hundred supporters in front of the local government office…

Speeding up enlargement is crucial for the credibility of the European Union, President János Áder said after talks with his Italian counterpart Sergio Matterella in…

“The facts show that the last ten years were the most successful ten years in Hungary’s last 100 years,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in…

The Busó Carnival and its many festivities will start next week in Mohács, a town in Southern Hungary. The event will begin on February 20th, with the…

The Hungarian spa town of Hévíz, home to Europe’s largest thermal lake, registered more than 1,233,000 guest nights at commercial accommodations last year, up 10,000…

Péter Szijjártó, the foreign affairs and trade minister, on Friday said Hungary could start importing natural gas from Azerbaijan from 2023 on. Addressing a press…

Hungary’s twelve-month consumer price index rose to 4.7% in January. This number is a record high inflation in many years. The National Bank of Hungary…

The government will reduce its financial envelope on its Public Works Scheme. According to leftist daily Népszava, this could endanger the employment of many people…

This past Monday, Viktor Orbán paid a visit to German chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin. The meeting was highly anticipated, with Hungarian media outlets speculating…

Iain Lindsay, the British Ambassador to Hungary, with his vibrant social media presence and keen interest in Hungarian culture as well as outstanding Hungarian, and one of the more…

President János Áder has invited Pope Francis to Hungary for the International Eucharistic Congress set to be held in Budapest later this year. Speaking to…

The “bullets” found at the Democratic Coalition’s (DK) office at Kaptárkő street (Budapest 11th district) proved to be ball bearings and weren’t shot out of a…

February 14th – otherwise known as Valentine’s Day – is the day the whole world turns pink. Since the holiday has begun to grow in…

Opposition politicians were lawfully present in the public media’s (MTVA) headquarters in late 2018, leftist Democratic Coalition (DK) announced in a statement following the Budapest-Capital…

Hungary’s GDP rose by an annual 4.5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in a first reading of…

Commenting on the relations between Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party and its party family in the European Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP), the head of…

The national investigations office (NNI) has launched an investigation into recent remarks by Péter Niedermüller, opposition (Democratic Coalition – DK) mayor of Budapest’s 7th district,…

Tests on some passengers on a ship at port in Cambodia have not indicated the presence of coronavirus, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in a video…

The ruling alliance of Fidesz and the Christian Democrats are prepared to back proposals by the justice ministry for stricter probation regulations and a halt…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Thursday warned of increasing migration pressure on Hungary’s southern border and an expected rise in the number of organised groups…

The government has clear positions on the issues that sparked heated public debates over the past few months but seeks strong backing from society to…

So far no cases of Hungarians infected by the coronavirus have been reported, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office told a regular press briefing…

Following the uproar caused by the arrival of Srí Lankan guest workers to the Transylvanian village of Gyergyóditró (Ditrău), which led to racist exclamations and…

The two Hungarian climbers of the ‘Eseményhorizont’ expedition, Dávid Klein and Szilárd Suhajda, are set to conquer another eight-thousand meter high mountain in early April….

Opposition Jobbik will propose a parliamentary resolution to get the central bank set a currency exchange rate target in addition to the existing inflation target,…

Hungarian teacher union PSZ is turning to the Constitutional Court over the new law on vocational training, saying it hurts the interests of the sector’s…

The Hungarian forint reached a new record low against the Euro on Wednesday, falling below 340. This means the Hungarian currency has lost more of…

Nine-time World Champion, three-time European Champion, iconic canoeist Tamás Wichmann, who also managed to stand on the Olympic podium three times, has died at the…

A bit later than usual, Hungary’s most popular summer festival, Sziget Festival, which just recently received the international Greener Festival Award from the European Festivals Association, announced the…

The former Royal Stables and Riding Hall, as well as the Guardhouse, have been reconstructed at Buda Castle, based on the original plans of Alajos…

Ruling Fidesz is calling for support of a signature drive for a European initiative on protecting national regions. The initiative dubbed European Citizens’ Initiative for…

Output of Hungary’s construction sector rose by an annual 2.7 percent in December, data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Thursday show. Output…

Hungary’s twelve-month consumer price index rose to 4.7 percent in January, climbing over the upper threshold of the tolerance band around the National Bank of…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has announced plans for a new “national consultation” survey partly to gauge public opinion on court rulings for compensation payments to…

75 years after an attempted breakout by over twenty thousand German and Hungarian troops besieged in Buda Castle only two per cent of whom made…

The Siege of Budapest ended exactly 75 years ago as the Soviet Red Army ousted the Nazi troops, while resulting in the almost complete demolition…

According to the European Commission, Ukraine’s laws should be satisfactory for the ethnic minorities that are affected by them, the European commissioner for enlargement and…

Hungarian police have seized drugs with a street value estimated at more than 70 million forints (EUR 206,000) from a property in Fót of a…

National coach company Volánbusz is “playing Russian roulette with drivers and passengers” because their drivers are overburdened, an opposition Jobbik MP told a press conference…

Ambassadors must undergo a strict national security screening before being appointed, thus the former Hungarian ambassador to Peru facing child pornography charges could also have…

The opposition’s partial success during last year’s municipal election was serious fuel for trying to build close and wide-ranging cooperation for the 2022 parliamentary elections….

The Austrian People’s Party (OVP) was “very rational” in the debate over Fidesz within the European People’s Party (EPP), Péter Szijjártó, Hungary’s foreign minister, said…

Speaking at a press conference on the sidelines of the European Parliament’s plenary session in Strasbourg, Chairman of the EPP Group Manfred Weber said he…

The government is appealing against a court decision to award cash compensation to Roma who were segregated at school in Gyöngyöspata, in north-western Hungary. It…

While asset declarations are not sufficient enough to show the real wealth behind a politician and the various governments doing their best to hinder transparency,…

On Sunday, South Korean film ‘Parasite’ made history at the 92nd Academy Awards as the first foreign language film to win the Oscar in the…

The opposition Socialist Party has called for men to have the option of retiring after forty years of employment. Lajos Korózs, who is head of…

Hungarians’ perception of dangers in cyberspace increased last year after the improvements in previous years, according to a survey released on Wednesday. Microsoft’s Digital Civility…

Whereas anti-Semitism in Europe’s western countries is growing, Jews in Hungary live in safety, Fidesz MEP Balázs Hidvéghi told a plenary session of the European…

National media authority NMHH received 824 reports of online legal violations via its Internet Hotline service last year, 13 percent more than in 2018, the…

A liberal columnist believes Orbán is cleverly weighing his chances in the European People’s Party and is prepared for every eventuality, while his opponents there…

In a statement, the interior ministry said no coronavirus cases have been confirmed in Hungary so far. Meanwhile, the ministry said the operative board set…

ABB on Tuesday announced plans to shut down its circuit breaker plant in Ózd (NE Hungary), laying off almost 1,000 people, because of falling demand….

The United Nations wastes money on facilitating migration that poses a danger to the entire world, instead of on fighting terrorism, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign…

The rate of growth in the number of marriages was the fastest in 2019 for the past thirty years, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said…

The justice ministry on Tuesday issued a statement calling on opposition parties to stop “the deliberate and perpetual misguidance” of the Hungarian public as regards…

MPs of opposition Jobbik have requested the public release of the details regarding national energy company MVM’s recent purchase of a majority stake in the…

The Hungarian woman who has recently been hospitalised in the Philippines with symptoms of coronavirus has tested negative and will be released from hospital, Foreign…

Back in April last year, the Hungarian ambassador to Peru, Gábor Kaleta, had been removed from service, brought home, and would soon face trial, as more…

British news site Guardian collected 10 of the best sleeper trains in Europe in a recent article, and a Hungarian sleeper route was also included. The…

I Dance Hungary is a website providing tutorials led by dance experts, along with original footage for those wanting to learn Hungarian folk dance. Its new tutorial…

The government has submitted its conservation report on Budapest’s World Heritage Sites to UNESCO by the deadline, the daily Magyar Nemzet said on Tuesday, citing…

Two medical doctors suggest that what they regard as fearmongering over the coronavirus may have more severe implications than the actual spread of the virus….

Diplomatic relations between Hungary and the Holy See resumed in February 1990 after a period during the Cold War in which dialogue was maintained, Eduard…

The cyclone Ciara, which battled Western Europe, reached Hungary yesterday evening with extreme wind, with wind gusts up to 90-100 km/h. Roofs, trees and chimneys were damaged…

The Collegium Hungaricum cultural institute in Berlin will pay tribute to cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond, with programs coinciding with the international Berlinale film festival later this…

So far no indications have emerged of coronavirus infections in Hungarians around the world, a foreign ministry official said on Monday. The three Hungarians working…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday he was certain European Union member states would reach an agreement on the bloc’s next budget that would…

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) greatly appreciates Hungary’s efforts in recent years to guarantee the security of the country’s nuclear assets, Foreign Minister Péter…

The Socialist Party on Monday called for the scrapping of the recently amended national curriculum (NAT), saying it did not serve the interests of Hungarian…

The allocation of the Hungary-US Fulbright grants program will increase from the current 250 million forints (EUR 760,000) to 400 million forints by 2022, state…

As we reported back in January, there was a massive turnaround in the case of Előd Tóásó, the Hungarian man charged with terrorism. Shortly after…

Hungary and the United States cooperate to provide aid for religious minorities in Iraq that had survived genocide, Tristan Azbej, the state secretary in charge…

Hanna Novosad, Minister of Education, does not consider any of the proposals made by Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó on Friday practical, she said in…

The foreign ministry knows of two Hungarian citizens in areas in China locked down because of the coronavirus, a state secretary said on Friday, adding…

A storm called Ciara has reached Western Europe yesterday, with great damages in the Netherlands, Germany and parts of Austria. Today, the cyclone is reaching…

The Hungarian and US governments are cooperating closely on policies in support of families, Katalin Novák, the state secretary of family and youth affairs, said…

A Party of the European Left delegation on Saturday called for Europe to unite against the mounting strength of the far right. After meeting representatives…

On August 1st, legislation banning scheduled flights to take off or land at Budapest’s International Liszt Ferenc Airport between midnight and 5 am came into…

Justice Minister Judit Varga has said on Facebook that she has added her signature to a European citizens’ initiative on protecting national regions. The initiative…

The debate over the new national curriculum continues in the weeklies. Left-wing and liberal commentators pour scorn on the government and accuse it of brainwashing…

Police have raised charges against two people for disseminating fake news online that people had dropped dead in Budapest’s Keleti railway station due to coronavirus….

Ferenc Gyurcsány, the leader of the Democratic Coalition, has called on Hungary’s opposition parties to join forces, saying: “Either we’ll win together or we won’t…

Some 500 supporters of far-right organisations gathered in central Buda on Saturday to commemorate an attempt by German and Hungarian soldiers to break out of…

oActress and singer Katalin Karády is known as the Hungarian femme fatale. First celebrated across the country as an icon, she was later known for…