Another Renewed Budapest Metro Section Reopens A central stretch of Budapest's Metro 3, covering Kálvin Square, Corvin, and Semmelweis Klinikák, reopened on Saturday. The opening of... 2022.05.15.
LMP Calls for Budapest Congestion Charge The green LMP party wants the rapid implementation of strong measures to reduce car traffic in Budapest, and advocates the... 2022.05.13.
Election Committee Fines Mayor Karácsony for Unreturned Referendum Slips The National Election Committee (NVB) has fined Gergely Karácsony over 500,000 forints (EUR 1,320) for failing to return more than... 2022.05.11.
Tímea Szabó Will Not Continue as Párbeszéd’s Co-President Along with Gergely Karácsony, Tímea Szabó will not run again for the co-presidency of the Párbeszéd party at the forthcoming... 2022.04.29.
Budapest to Receive Direct EU Funding for Green Development The European Commission is directly funding green developments in Budapest, as part of a mission to aid achieving the 2030... 2022.04.29.
Thousands Participate in Bicycle Parade in Budapest Organizers and police estimated that more than 10,000 people took part in the "I bike Budapest" bicycle parade on Saturday.... 2022.04.25.
LMP Gets DK’s Dobrev Mandate Causing Some Uproar in Opposition Green-centrist LMP politician Bernadett Bakos will receive the mandate of Democratic Coalition's Klára Dobrev, after the leftist opposition party's MEP... 2022.04.21.
What Renewed M3 Metro Stations Will Look Like Once Completed The visual plans of the renovated stations of the M3 metro line have been published, which include elevators, renovated escalators,... 2022.04.20.
Karácsony: Opposition Defeat Not From Formation of Alliance but Lack of Unity In an interview to Telex, concerning the recent election, which the ruling parties won with a landslide, Budapest Mayor Gergely... 2022.04.14.
Budapest Assembly Approves Measures to Help Ukraine Refugees The Budapest municipal assembly on Wednesday approved several measures aimed at helping refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine. The municipal... 2022.04.14.
Budapest Urgently Needs HUF 30 Billion for Operations Budapest's budget would need a HUF 30 billion (EUR 79.6 million) loan for operations, the Budapest mayor announced, asking the... 2022.04.14.
Lower Embankment on Pest Side Open Again to Traffic From 6 am on April 11, the lower quay on the Pest side is open once again. This means the... 2022.04.12.
Mayor Karácsony: Budapest to Use All Means to Prevent Liget Project from Proceeding Debates over Budapest’s Városliget have been revived after Viktor Orbán, reversing his earlier position to compromise on the matter, said... 2022.04.09.
Karácsony Will Not Continue as Co-President of Párbeszéd Party Gergely Karácsony announced that he does not intend to run again to be the co-president of Párbeszéd, Bence Tordai, who... 2022.04.08.
Consequences for Opposition Coalition after Devastating Election Defeat In a brief, joint statement, the six-party opposition coalition commented on the election results a day and a half after... 2022.04.06.
Photo Exhibition of Refugees Surviving Ukrainian War Vandalized A photo exhibition in Budapest of survivors of the Ukrainian war was smashed on the night of the elections. As... 2022.04.05.
Election 2022 – Bp Mayor Karácsony: Vote Choice between ‘Right or Wrong’ Sunday's parliamentary election is "about war and peace but the question is who supports war", Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said... 2022.04.03.
Opposition Demands FM Szijjártó’s Resignation after Investigative Report on Russia Hacking Ministry’s IT System In reaction to Direkt36's fact-finding article claiming that Russia's secret services had "practically unlimited access to the information systems of... 2022.03.29.
Zelenskyy-Orbán Clash Over “Strategic Calm” Regarding Sanctions and Military Aid “There is no time to hesitate. It's time to decide already,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said to Prime Minister Viktor... 2022.03.25.
Karácsony: “Russian military aggression deeply imprinted in the historical memory of Hungarians and Poles” Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony and Rafal Trzaskowski, his Warsaw counterpart, marked the Day of Polish-Hungarian Friendship in a joint video... 2022.03.23.
Election 2022: Karácsony Urges Return to ‘Dreams of 1990’ Gergely Karácsony, the mayor of Budapest and the co-head of Párbeszéd, called for a return to the "dreams of 1990"... 2022.03.21.
