The European Union intended to make a pledge to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 at the summit meeting on June 20th. Poland, Estonia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, however, blocked the joint statement, which was accepted...

As a consequence of his father’s position as Secretary of State ahead of World War II, Csaba Emődy’s family had to flee Hungary after 1945. After a short detour in Italy, the family ended up in Argentina, which, at...

Rumours are going around that the Visegrad Four is going to nominate a candidate for the Head of the European Committee and other posts as well. The question is whether or not the Visegrad Group will be able to...

Zsolt Bede-Fazekas, editor-in-chief of the Toronto Independent Hungarian Radio and the former cultural director of the Hungarian Canadian Cultural Center in Toronto, operates the Canadian „Pannonia” bookstore, which is the only one supplying Hungarians with Hungarian-language publications “from Australia to...

The European Parliamentary elections in May were won by the European People’s Party, though by a narrower margin than before. The breakthrough of the radical right that Orbán probably had expected didn’t come to fruition, although they made some...

Next year will be the centenary of the Treaty of Versailles, which brought, among other agreements, World War I to an end. The Treaty was disastrous for Hungary, with the country losing two-thirds of its territory and one-third of...

For nearly half a century, Jolán Ballók has worked tirelessly as the doctor and pillar of a small, isolated Hungarian-majority township in Transylvania. Despite living a difficult life, Ballók, member of the Friends of Hungary Community, still always manages...

Since Donald Trump’s inauguration, the risk of a trade war between the USA and China has become a real threat. In fact, the escalating conflict indicates the first shots have already been fired. Regardless of how the conflict proceeds,...

Many might expect Pope Francis to talk about politics in Csíksomlyó, but the truth is that he doesn’t have to. If he chooses not to attend the International Eucharistic Congress held in Budapest next year, it shouldn’t be interpreted...

The Hungarian Prime Minister has been to Washington to meet President Trump. The negotiations were said to occur in a cordial tone and the face-to-face talks were followed by an extended meeting with ministers and experts from both sides....

Ahead of the last episode of the controversial final season of Game of Thrones, Hungary Today had the opportunity to sit down for an interview with political scientist-sociologist Dr. Csaba Tóth, who recently co-published an essay anthology titled Parallel Universes,...

The Spitzkandidat system in the European Parliament – i.e. a way of choosing the head of the European Commission based on a deal between the largest party groupings in the Parliament – finds itself under attack as election day...

Since settling in New York City in 2010, Hungarian-born jazz vocalist Nikolett Pankovits has been merging traditional Hungarian melodies with Latin American rhythms and her style of jazz. After her debut album Magia, she toured with a special performance,...

Matteo Salvini, the Italian Minister of the Interior and head of the party League, has concluded his visit to Hungary. Although the official aim of the visit was to confirm border protection cooperation between the two countries, the two...

“As long as Fidesz is a member of the European People’s Party, we are concentrating on this group. In the EP elections we will run as a member of the EPP” — said Gergely Gulyás, Minister of Prime Minister’s...

The Ukrainian National Assembly has passed a much-debated language law meant to safeguard the primacy of the Ukrainian language. The law severely discriminates against ethnic minorities, Russians, Hungarians, Romanians and Poles living in the Eastern European country with a...