14+ hour, 6+ min ago   (442+ words) Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar has issued one of his clearest statements yet on personal freedom and relationships, declaring that people should be free to love whomever they choose. His comments come just a day after he announced plans to…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (212+ words) Prime Minister Péter Magyar, leader of the Tisza Party, on Thursday announced his party’s five nominees for the Constitutional Court on Facebook. Magyar said the nominees’ committee hearings would be held on Monday, and parliament would elect the five new…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (338+ words) Hungary’s central bank governor has spoken of the pitfalls of euro adoption: this, he says, is how a Hungarian euro can be made to work. The president of the Magyar Nemzeti Bank emphasised that the aim is not a swift,…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (291+ words) Ukraine must take concrete steps to secure the rights of the Hungarian community in Transcarpathia before further EU accession clusters can be opened, Prime Minister Péter Magyar told a doorstep press briefing in Bratislava on Thursday. He said political agreement…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (158+ words) The capital is preparing joint proposals with the most affected districts to tackle a social crisis, Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Thursday. Karácsony said on Facebook that consultations had been held with the mayors of the city’s districts regarding…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (190+ words) It is “not right” that Hungary is paying 1 million euros a day to protect Europe’s common borders, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said at the meeting of Visegrád Four prime ministers and their Irish counterpart in Bratislava on Thursday. Magyar said…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (584+ words) The number of foreign workers in Hungary reached an all-time high just before the government tightened its guest-worker rules. Now, tourism industry organisations are calling for more flexible regulations as businesses continue to struggle with labour shortages. The number of…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (362+ words) Hungary is finally set to feel the arrival of autumn, with a significant cooling trend expected over the coming days. After temperatures soared to 30–34°C earlier this week — around 7–9°C above the seasonal average — a cold front is now sweeping…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (490+ words) Hungary’s Parliament has voted to restore the terms “county” and “government commissioner”, reversing the controversial renaming of counties and government commissioners introduced by Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz government in 2022. The 2022 terminology was introduced as part of the 11th amendment to Hungary’s Fundamental…...