Gábor, a first lieutenant, has been trying to leave the armed forces for nearly a year, to no avail, even though he failed the mandatory annual physical fitness test and has a psychiatric evaluation stating that he is unfit to be a soldier.
According to the editor-in-chief of Slovakia's largest newspaper, the key question now is whether the Hungarian prime minister will prioritise the issue of Slovakia’s Hungarian minority or his alliance with the Slovak prime minister.
A child forced to watch his father’s execution before being shot in the head, thousands of drivers missing from public transport, an insane technological arms race on the front, integration difficulties for returning veterans, nerve-wracking night-time bombings – these are all stories from Ukraine, where I had the chance to meet with government officials, civil leaders, and journalists.
21 Research Centre’s research on the divisions and shared values in Hungarian society.
In fifteen years, the number of traditional Hungarian pubs (“kocsma”) has halved. This is much more than a sectorial decline: this is devastation.
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It's not just court and prosecutorial employees, but also law enforcement administrative staff who have been left out of recent years’ salary raises.
Despite having approached Minister of Construction and Transport János Lázár last year regarding the so-called castle law, representatives of Hungary’
According to Dávid Vitézy, János Lázár has halted all railway investments in Budapest, including those aimed at revitalising the surroundings of Keleti and Nyugati railway stations.
Private equity funds have become the primary tool for wealth concealment and siphoning off public funds in Hungary, while neither the operation of these funds nor state capital investments are transparent — as revealed in a recent study by Transparency International (TI) Hungary. Hungary's anti-money laundering regulations violate EU law, as they do not include provisions for recording the actual owners of private equity funds. Consequentially, the European Commission initiated infringement proceedings against Hungary in July 2024.
No matter how much the government is trying to emphasise that special taxes will be prevented from being passed on to the general public, profit-oriented companies keep finding ways to make us pay for what the government has mandated for them.
Top government personnel have been consistently receiving generous salary increases over the past five years, while government and public officials at the lower end of the hierarchy have only had their salaries raised once.
Chaos. Drama. Vulnerability. Tricks and tears. Catharsis and luck. An insane amount of luck. Our detailed overview of Gergely Karácsony’s mayoral campaign.
Corn crops will suffer greatly if the heat persists for another couple weeks – agricultural economist György Raskó told our newspaper. Last Wednesday
A Hungarian judge seeks to enforce proper compensation for judicial employees through the European Commission and the European Court of Justice.
Viktor Orbán has been working for three years to find a new political home for Fidesz in Europe, and now his efforts are paying off. At Fidesz’s
Despite losing some support irrespective of Tisza, Fidesz could have found itself in a position more comfortable and secure than before.
The Gyurcsány government leased the airport for 75 years and collected 464.5 billion forints. The Orbán government is offering 1,400 billion forints to buy out the foreign operators 56 years before the contract expires. According to this, "sovereignty" is worth three times more than the "failed privatization."
Has peace prevailed in Europe? Will Fidesz be able to find a party family? We have analysed Viktor Orbán's most important goals following the EP election.
Our assessment of János Csák’s two-year tenure.
Hungarian society is divided over the question whether the European Union should help Ukraine, and if so, what this assistance should entail.
Although EU membership has failed to meet the expectations of many Hungarians, a significant majority still believes that it was beneficial for the country to join the European Union twenty years ago.
Experts believe the sector's prospects are gloomy.
Last week’s attack on Robert Fico once again proved that assassinations, murders and attempted murders against political and public figures are much
