Although Viktor Orbán does a good job of bringing up important topics in Europe, Hungary could benefit from a far more balanced debate culture. Cultivating such a balance is essential in limiting polarization, says Danish journalist Lasse Skytt. Skytt...

The situation is far more alarming than the thermometer currently suggests, but it’s not hopeless, says Csaba Kőrösi, Head of the Directorate for Environmental Sustainability founded by President Áder. Hungary Today asked Hungary’s former UN ambassador about environmental and...

Hungary’s local government elections will be held in autumn. In Budapest – the most important area where the fiercest struggle is expected – the opposition seems better organized and prepared than in the past. They are sure to achieve...

Guerilla-sculptor Mihály Kolodko placed his first miniature bronze statue depicting Főkukac (Boss Worm) from the iconic 1980s Hungarian cartoon, A nagy ho-ho-ho-horgász (The Great Angler), in the Hungarian capital in 2016. Since then, both adults and children have searched high and low...

Thanks to a young Hungarian engineer’s innovative idea (deemed GlovEye), the blind and visually impaired will be able to read printed text by using a Smartphone app that transforms text into Braille. Hungary Today spoke with Ábel Csathó, the...

Since the industrial revolution, a growing number of people have moved to big cities. Hungary has always been behind Western Europe in terms of economic development. Still, during the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, Budapest became a large city even by European...

Imagine waking up one day and finding yourself in a different country. You weren’t kidnapped, but your whole city has become part of another state. The official language has changed, your name is pronounced differently and everything you own...

2019 is the anniversary of not one, but three remarkable events of the 20th century: NATO’s 70th anniversary and Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic’s 20th anniversary since joining NATO, the dismantlement of the Iron Curtain and the 30th...

Hosted by Corvinus Matthias Collegium, a pre-eminent extracurricular educational institution in Hungary, a three-day conference on migration was held in Budapest between March 22nd and 24th. Well-known politicians, political experts and philosophers – including former Presidents Nicholas Sarkozy and...

Although many called for Fidesz’s exclusion from the European People’s Party (EPP), the meeting ended in compromise. The party was not excluded; in fact, it asked to be suspended, effective immediately. A committee of three ’wise men’ composed of...

Tensions have been mounting between the EPP and Fidesz for years. Therefore, when at the beginning of 2019 it appeared that the party’s expulsion could simply be a matter of time, it wasn’t exactly a shock. Orbán’s speech on...

Interesting new developments are predicted in the European Parliament, which is expected to undergo major shifts. The Europen People’s Party – represented by a rather colorful fraction comprised of markedly right-wing, centrist and liberal politicians – is the most...

One of the most exciting political questions of the year is how Fidesz’s relationship with the Europan People’s Party (EPP) will develop. Tension has been continually growing between the governing party of Hungary and the European conservative party group....

His mother is Austrian, his father Hungarian, and he was born in Toronto. He didn’t speak Hungarian until age 17 when he first started learning, far from the country, using sports newspapers. For the past 3 years, he has...

On the Memorial Day for the Victims of Communism, Hungary Today had the opportunity to interview producer Tamás Lajos about his film Eternal Winter, which commemorates the hundreds of thousands of Hungarians deported to the Gulag and Gupvi forced-labor...

In his annual state of the nation address, the Prime Minister outlined the extension of the government’s family protection program. Previously, there had been hints that measures of great importance would be unveiled and, indeed, the action plan provides...