19+ hour, 16+ 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, 16+ 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…...

4+ day, 1+ 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…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (542+ words) Daily News Hungary How former PM Orbán’s ex-secretary informed media about the shady businesses and was threatened with his kids Vilmos Vályi-Nagy, a former state secretary in Viktor Orbán’s government between 2010 and 2014 and one of investigative journalism’s most relied-upon informants…...

4+ day, 8+ 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…...

5+ day, 23+ 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…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (322+ words) After more than 13 years, new documents have shed light on one of the longest-running mysteries surrounding Hungarian politician János Lázár: what he was doing in Zurich on 22 and 23 March 2013. The details were revealed by investigative outlet Direkt36, which obtained an internal…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (572+ words) Former Slovak police chief István Hamran has criticised the head of Hungary’s newly established National Asset Recovery and Asset Protection Office (NVVH), saying it is unacceptable to suggest that no legally final corruption convictions can be expected for six years....

1+ week, 47+ min ago   (938+ words) Hungary’s controversial Paks II nuclear power plant could be delayed by at least two years, with an internal Rosatom schedule reportedly pushing the completion of the final reactor to the end of 2034. The EUR 12.5 billion project may therefore not become…...