12+ hour, 49+ min ago   (181+ words) Francis Fukuyama has held up Péter Magyar’s landslide defeat of Viktor Orbán as a model for Americans seeking to rebuke Donald Trump in November’s midterm elections, describing Hungary’s April vote as a ‘very great repudiation of Orbánism’. Speaking to Ezra…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (337+ words) The Hungarian government aims to strengthen public transport, improve competitive rail connections to county seats and establish attractive suburban services in major cities, including Budapest, Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy said on Wednesday. Speaking at the 26th Current Issues in…...

2+ day, 16+ hour ago   (340+ words) The Foreign Ministry of Hungary is senselessly dismantling its network of career diplomats around the world without even ensuring that they will be properly replaced, former foreign economic attaché Ádám Pulay states, as reported by Hirtv.hu. Pulay recently resigned…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (267+ words) Budapest’s districts most affected by the city’s social crisis are working together on proposals to address the situation, Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Thursday. Karácsony said on Facebook that he had held talks with the mayors of several districts about…...

6+ day, 27+ min ago   (579+ words) This summer was Hungary’s driest on record and the second hottest since 1901, according to an analysis published by HungaroMet on Monday. The national average temperature for the summer was 23.43 degrees Celsius, 2.59 degrees above the 1991–2020 average of 20.84 degrees. This made 2026 the…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago   (445+ words) Magyar Közút has renovated nearly 140 kilometres of secondary roads across Hungary this year using its own equipment and workforce, Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy said on Monday. In a post on Facebook, Vitézy said work had been completed on…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (527+ words) Budapest’s Green Panel Programme could provide an effective response to climate challenges by combining urban greening with building renovations designed to provide passive cooling, Mayor Gergely Karácsony said on Sunday. In a post on Facebook, Karácsony cited a survey conducted…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (240+ words) Ádám Bodor, former deputy CEO for mobility at the Centre for Budapest Transport (BKK), has been appointed the company’s new chief executive by Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony, effective 1 September, BKK said on Tuesday. Bodor joined BKK at the end of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (297+ words) A serious incident occurred in Budapest, Hungary, in the early morning hours of Sunday, 30 August, after a fight broke out near the Pontoon nightclub, with a man in his 40s sustaining life-threatening injuries, the Hungarian news site 24.hu reports. Pontoon is…...

2+ week, 32+ min ago   (184+ words) Notably, the underlying government resolution from July 2018, which declared the GCM ‘completely contrary to Hungary’s interests’ and ruled out participation in either its adoption or implementation, remains unchanged, leaving the new government’s formal position unclear and creating a potential conflict…...