On Tuesday, a demonstration against the Orbán government will be held in Brussels, in the central part of the EU quarter, in front of the…

Retail sales in Hungary rose by an annual 5.3 percent in November 2018, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said in the first reading of data…

Conjoined Bangladeshi twins Rabeya and Rokaiya have arrived in Budapest for treatment and preparations for separation surgery by a Hungarian medical team of the Action…

Hungary’s opposition parties on Saturday called for further protests, another change of regime and building a new republic, while trade unions announced nationwide demonstrations to…

The year 2018 was the hottest year on record in Hungary, with temperatures rising faster than the rate of global warming, the national weather service…

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…

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…

After the ‘protest oath’ taken by opposition MPs on the steps of the parliament building and before Saturday’s mass demonstration, commentators tried to make sense…

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

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…

An exhibition looking “at the shared heritage between the Hungarian and British hussars” opened in London’s famed National Army Museum. The exhibit includes contributions from the…

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…

The number of Hungarian pensioners returning to the workforce could soon double from around 70,000 at present, the finance minister’s deputy said in an interview…

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

Lake Fertő is the Carpathian basin’s second largest lake; since 2001, the lake and the surrounding region have been considered a UNESCO World Heritage site….

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…

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…

An upcoming Israel-Visegrad Group summit to be held in Jerusalem in early 2019 was on the agenda of talks between Prime Minister Viktor Orban and…

Hungary’s seasonally adjusted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) rose to 54.2 points in December from 53.5 in November, the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory…

Without a doubt, Ernő Rubik is one of the most well-known Hungarians of the XXth Century. He hardly ever gives an interview but made an…

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…

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…

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…

Budapest police have passed on to the central investigative prosecutor’s office a complaint by opposition deputies who were removed from public media MTVA headquarters earlier…

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…

The majority of the opposition do not respect the basic values of democracy, Gergely Gulyás, the head of the prime minister’s office, said on Monday….

The New Year is a time for looking back and for looking forward. Some people make resolutions to break bad habits, create new ones or maintain…

Falconry is one of the most ancient Hungaricums and the tradition of hunting with raptors is as old as Hungarian history. What proves this more…

Operating within the framework of the Széchenyi István Society, the Hungarian Catholic League and the American Hungarian Library and Historical Society, the Hungarian House of…

The memorial of Imre Nagy, Hungary’s prime minister during the 1956 revolution, was removed from Martyrs’ Square near Parliament in the early hours of Friday…

The Bekescsaba District Court in south-eastern Hungary has sentenced the five members of a Slovak criminal gang for multiple counts of robbery and theft, the…

Starting in January, families with two children will enjoy a 40,000 forint (EUR 124) monthly tax preference, the state secretary for family and youth affairs…

It is always interesting to see how the land we inhabit looked hundreds of years prior; today’s enormous cities were once small villages, instead of…

Several construction projects will be completed with new ones getting under way in City Park under the Liget Budapest Project next year, the director-general of…

Regional income inequality in Hungary has declined noticeably since 2010, a state secretary of the human resources ministry said on Thursday, citing data from the…

When I searched for Chef Lajos Bíró’s name before the interview, every adjective I came across were either extreme or negative — outrageous, outspoken, arrogant, sassy….

Syria’s Apostolic Nuncio thanked the Hungarian government for the financial support it has provided to the “Open Hospitals” humanitarian project in that country, the head…

At a time when Europe is trying to find its own identity, people with Christian roots need to rediscover the true meaning of Christmas, the…

We wish all our readers a merry Christmas. Billions around the world celebrate and commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior of…

In many religions and according to various beliefs, the holiday season is a time of celebration. Whether you traveled home to be with your families,…

The government has allocated over 10 billion forints (EUR 31m) for the reconstruction of Esztergom Basilica, according to a decree published in the official Hungarian…

HungaroControl, Hungary’s air control service, has won a total of 3.5 billion forint (EUR 10.9m) European Union support to carry out developments in order to…

The Hungarian government has set aside 212 million forints (EUR 658,400) to support a humanitarian programme launched in partnership with Poland in Syria, according to…

The satirical Two-tailed Dog Party staged a “national Christmas peace march” in Budapest, marching from the Parliament area to the Chain Bridge and then back…

Opposition parties and civil groups staged a demonstration in front of the presidential palace in Budapest’s Castle District on Friday evening. The protest was held…

What started as a nonprofit business and teaching platform has transformed into one of the country’s most notable design companies – Hello Wood. It was…

With the holidays fast approaching, the police department in Baranya wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. The outcome has been positively heartwarming, making it…

Yesterday, President János Áder has signed the controversial amendment to the labour code. Several opposition parties protested against Áder’s move, called for further resistance and…

Hungary’s cash flow-based budget, excluding local councils, ran a 1,842.4 billion forint (EUR 5.7bn) deficit at the end of November, the Finance Ministry confirmed in…

The New York-based Heritage Foundation for Preservation of Jewish Cemeteries (HFPJC) has thanked the Hungarian government for providing funding for the restoration of pre-WWII Jewish…

The opposition Socialist and Parbeszed parties will continue their anti-government protest against the recent labour code amendment, party lawmakers said on Friday. Parliament passed the…

Being Hungarian is a way of life, a state of soul, and comprises a set of ancestral roots that connect even those whose parents were…

Police carried out an anti-corruption raid against Ferenc Ódor in the parking lot of the Encs District Authority. Ódor is an ex-Fidesz MP and the…

Hungary’s population decline slowed in the first ten months of 2018 compared with the same period last year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on…

Opposition parties and trade unions protested against recent government measures in three Hungarian cities in the countryside on Thursday. President Signs Controversial Amendment to Labour…

With Great Romania established in 1918, the old dream of having all Romanians in one state was fulfilled. The enlarged Southeastern European country, however, can…

President János Áder has signed an amendment to the labour code, the president’s office said on its website on Thursday. In a statement published on…

The ruling Fidesz-Christian Democrat alliance has selected Justice Minister László Trócsányi to head their list for next year’s European Parliamentary elections, Fidesz announced on Thursday….

Parties of the opposition should field a joint candidate for the post of Budapest mayor in next year’s municipal elections, representatives of the Socialist, Democratic…

In last Wednesday’s chaotic session, the National Assembly accepted the establishment of a system of independent administrative courts which will have the authority to make rulings in…

Only Budapest and Győr-Moson-Sopron’s average incomes exceed the Hungarian average, Central Stastical Office (KSH) reported. In Easternmost Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, the average salary is just a little…

Next year’s European Parliamentary elections will be “crucial both for Hungary and the European Union”, the prime minister’s cabinet chief said in an interview published…

A protester in Sunday’s anti-government demonstration, who attacked police officers after the event, has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment, suspended for four years, the municipal…

Hungary’s foreign ministry has signed a cooperation agreement with the US government aid agency USAID on protecting and supporting persecuted Christians, the ministry’s state secretary…

Opposition parties and civil groups staged a demonstration against the government in Eger, in northern Hungary, on Wednesday. The protest, which was attended by a…

The United Nations will make a serious mistake by approving the Global Migration Compact at Wednesday’s general assembly session, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in…

Opinion piece by Judit Varga, the Minister of State for European Union Relations. The article was originally published on Mandiner. Judith Sargentini is provoking Hungary….

Prestigious British business newspaper Financial Times elected Hungarian-American billionaire businessman George Soros—the number one enemy in the Hungarian government’s communication campaigns—as ‘Person of the Year.’…

As more and more people joined in the tense demonstrations erupting across the country, certain Fidesz and KDNP offices were vandalized. On Wednesday of last…

The recent protest staged by opposition deputies at public media headquarters was a sign of a “nationwide opposition” rather than cooperation between the parliamentary opposition…

The damage caused to Parliament and adjacent Kossuth Square in recent protests adds up to “millions of forints” (HUF 1m = EUR 3,000), parliament’s press…

The interior ministry on Tuesday rejected Amnesty International’s accusations that Hungarian police have used excessive force against anti-government protesters in recent days, saying that police…

After the fifth day of demonstrations against the government, commentators ponder whether the recent series of protests might lead to the birth of a new…

Hungary’s government has decided to launch a new public procurement procedure for the upgrade of the Hungarian section of the Budapest-Belgrade railway line, as the…

Low-fare airline flydubai will launch a direct Budapest-Dubai flight in June 2019, Budapest Airport, the operator of Liszt Ferenc International Airport told MTI. The daily…

In a modification presented by Deputy PM Zsolt Semjén, the government again doubled the upper limit of tax concession for sportsmen, called EKHO, to a…

Wondering what holiday gift to buy a friend or family member? The holiday season is not only about buying gifts for our loved ones, but…

The National Bank of Hungary on Tuesday said in a preliminary release of the main forecasts from its quarterly Inflation Report due on Thursday that…

Economic research company Századvég has raised its forecast for next year’s GDP growth to 3.9 percent from 3.5 percent in a projection released three months…

The concentration of microparticles in the air has reached unhealthy levels in Miskolc and Salgótarján in the north, and Szombathely in the west, the national…

A national security committee meeting with recent events at public media MTVA headquarters on its agenda lacked quorum on Tuesday because ruling party representatives stayed…

Japanese car manufacturer Nissan is expanding its single European business and financial service center in Budapest, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign affairs and trade minister, told…

Chances are good for “the Hungarian strategy” to be confirmed at the EU-Africa Forum in Vienna, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said ahead of the meeting…

Opposition politicians attended a demonstration in front of the public media headquarters in Budapest on Monday, calling for a “free and independent public media” as…

Opposition politicians attended a demonstration in front of the public media headquarters in Budapest on Monday, calling for a “free and independent public media” as…

A left-wing commentator welcomes the anti-government demonstrations and encourages Hungarians to take to the streets. A pro-government columnist thinks that protesting against the higher ceiling…

Hungary’s opposition parties have initiated an extraordinary session on parliament and a parliamentary committee probe into the suspected breach of the immunity of several MPs…

The Hungarian Parliament is led by the Hungarian people, Zoltán Kovács, state secretary for international communications, said in a Monday evening interview to CNN. Kovács…

Hungarians may appear to have more money at their disposal this holiday season, but the record high of personal loans tells a different story. The…

George H.W. Bush, the late American Republican president who served as the leader of the greatest world power from 1989 until 1993, has died. He…

The aim of demonstrations staged over the past days has been to “topple the regime”, the leader of the leftist opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) said…

“Hungarian communities across the border will not be sacrificed for geopolitical interests or under international pressure,” Hungary’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, said in Parliament on…

Pro-government commentators suggest that the anti-government protesters have no meaningful political objectives. Left-wing and liberal pundits, on the other hand, hope that the demonstrations can…

According to data from 2017 published on Thursday by Eurostat, the standard of living in Hungary is still well below the EU average. When it…

An increasing number of countries have raised objections against the UN’s Global Migration Compact and are expected to reject its adoption, Hungary’s foreign minister said…

The number of suicides has fallen by 35 percent in Hungary since 2010, state secretary of the ministry of human resources Bence Rétvári told MTI….

Protesters turned up at the headquarters of the public broadcaster MTVA on Sunday evening after a demonstration of civil organisations and opposition parties against recent amendments…

Protesters turned up at the headquarters of the public broadcaster MTVA on Sunday evening after a demonstration of civil organisations and opposition parties against recent amendments…

Civil organisations and opposition parties held a demonstration against a recent law on extending voluntary overtime in Budapest on Sunday. The amendments to the labour code…

The Hungarian Heritage Festival was held for the third time last weekend between 7-9 December in New York at the Hungarian House—complete with an advent…

A body of independent experts said on Friday that they supported a bid by the western Hungarian city of Veszprém to bear the title of…

Representatives of opposition parties called for cooperation and further protests against the government at a demonstration in front of Parliament on Friday. Addressing a few…

An attack has been thwarted “amidst stormy conditions” at Friday’s Brussels summit of European Union heads of state and government “convened to give more money…

According to a report by Television Sirius, the police were hunting for young men in the streets, around bus stations and even in workplaces, bringing…

In an interview with left-liberal weekly 168 óra, United States Ambassador to Hungary David B. Cornstein insists that despite the failure to keep CEU, “a…

The opposition Momentum Movement and Párbeszéd party have failed to meet their legal obligations in connection with an official examination of their campaign spending, the…

In the wake of demonstrations in Budapest on Wednesday and Thursday, police put 51 people under arrest, the Budapest Police Headquarters (BRFK) said on Friday….

So far 1,117,000 people have filled in the government’s “National Consultation” survey on family policy, a government official said on Friday. Csaba Dömötör, the cabinet…

Interpreting Wednesday’s street disturbances after the vote on the Overtime Bill, pro-government commentators accuse the opposition of violating democratic norms, while a left-wing and a…

Dunja Mijatovic, the Council of Europe’s commissioner for human rights, on Friday called on Hungarian President János Áder to return the law setting up administrative…

Disciplinary rules in parliament may be stepped up in the wake of this week’s demonstrations over the amendments to overtime regulations, Speaker of Parliament László…

Protesters again took to the streets in Budapest to demonstrate against the “slave law” on Thursday evening. The demonstration started peacefully but police later responded…

According to the opposition parties, this week’s parliamentary sessions were not conducted lawfully. At a news conference held after Thursday’s House Rules Committee meeting, Tamás…

The opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) on Thursday called for a parliamentary committee to be set up to investigate police actions during demonstrations against Wednesday’s amendments…

Following thirty-five arrests, five injured police officers and four documented uses of tear gas against demonstrators, the government has labeled last night’s protest illegitimate due to…

On Wednesday, the National Assembly officially accepted the modifications made to the employment bill—which many have dubbed the “slave law.” Although government officials insist the…

An editorial in The Washington Post on the Central European University (CEU), which has recently announced to move its US-accredited courses from Budapest to Vienna,…

On Wednesday, parliament voted to extend the period employers may account overtime for the purpose of calculating wages and rest days from twelve months to…

Pensions in Hungary will be raised by 2.7 percent next year, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office announced on Thursday. Gergely Gulyás said that…