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Ranked: The Countries With the Most Seniors (2025-2100P)
Visual Capitalist
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July 20, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Countries With the Most Seniors (2025-2100P) This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven...
On way to festival: 17-year-old Ukrainian girl loses arm in bus traffic accident in Hungary
Ukrainska Pravda
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Sofiia Maleryk. Photo: Nataliia Koshyk on Facebook Sofiia Maleryk, 17, from Lviv, has been seriously injured as a result of a large-scale traffic accident in Hungary. Sofiia had to have her arm amputated, and she also broke her leg. Source: Lviv...
EU takes aim at 'extremist' anti-LGBT Christians
Christian Today
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July 10, 2025
(Photo: Getty/iStock) A Hungarian official has taken aim at progressive activists within the European Union, accusing them of authoring a report that attacks Christianity and seeks to diminish its influence. The European Parliamentary Forum for...
Hungarikum Days Celebrate Culture and Gastronomy in Transylvania
Hungary Today
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July 4, 2025
This weekend, between July 4 and 6, the 16th Hungarikum Days will be held in Sibiu (Nagyszeben, Romania), at the ASTRA Open-air Museum. In this Transylvanian city, home to a Hungarian diaspora community, Hungarian folk culture, traditions, and...
Deportations Threaten South Omaha Neighborhood Built by Meatpacking and Immigrants
Manufacturing.net
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July 10, 2025
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — On June 10, dozens of masked federal agents filed into the Glenn Valley Foods meatpacking plant in South Omaha, presenting a warrant to company officials to conduct an immigration raid. As agents entered the production floor,...
When to act? Hungarian housing market set to surge with new loan program
Daily News Hungary
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July 9, 2025
Hungary’s housing market is already sky-high, but experts warn that the new state-backed Home Start loan program launching in September could drive prices up even further. Though the initiative is designed to help first-time buyers, it may in fact...
Critical theory: A New Division of Cultural Marxism
Organiser Weekly
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Cultural Marxism is a branch of Western Marxism, different from Marxism- Leninism of old Soviet Union. From the beginning the promoters of Cultural Marxism have known they could be more effective if they concealed the Marxist nature of their work,...
'Unusual Guided Tours' at Budapest's Ethnographic Museum from Saturday
XpatLoop
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Unusual thematic guided tours related to the exhibitions of the Ethnographic Museum will be held in the Budapest city park institution from this Saturday until the end of July, according to MTI. During which period the general public can learn...
Vote for Your 'Bird of the Year' in Hungary
XpatLoop
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The Hungarian Ornithological and Nature Conservation Association (MME) is inviting public votes for the bird of the year until July 25th - you can choose between the little warbler, the song thrush and the garden warbler. The MME has been naming...
MSZP: 40% of Society Lives Below Subsistence Minimum in Hungary
XpatLoop
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Forty percent of society, 3.8 million people, live at or below the subsistence level, the deputy chairman of the Socialist Party (MSZP) said at a press conference in Budapest. Referring to their own calculations, Lajos Korózs said that a...
Free French Street Party in Budapest on 12 July
XpatLoop
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On the occasion of the French national holiday, the French Institute in Budapest will once again organise its traditional street ball, this year on July 12th. The free, outdoor event offers music, dance and culinary programs from the afternoon...
Hungarians Choose Balaton Over Adriatic as Prices Rise and Travel Habits Change
Hungary Today
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July 4, 2025
Balaton Rising prices on the Adriatic, fluctuations in the forint and more conscious planning are all contributing to Hungarian travelers increasingly choosing Lake Balaton and other domestic destinations over foreign seaside, Világgazdaság...
Hungary Pride 2025 was a dazzling show of defiance
Dazed & Confused
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July 3, 2025
It was on the fifth floor of an old Soviet building with a creaking lift and wood-panelled halls where a group of activists had organised to meet in Budapest. The building was once a telephone exchange, built in the 1970s and equipped with the...
Over 500 Performers to Appear at Hungary's Annual Zemplén Fest this August
XpatLoop
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The 34th Zemplén Festival awaits audiences with more than five hundred performers at forty venues in twenty-five settlements between August 8 and 17, the organizers announced on Wednesday in Sátoraljaújhely. Festival director Gábor Hollerung...
When the beacon goes dark: How U.S. regression on social stances fuels global repression
The Advocate
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July 20, 2025
From the 17th to 19th centuries, Western Europeans often condemned the Islamic East, not for conservatism, but for a liberty they found scandalous. The Ottoman Empire was arguably leading the world in sexual tolerance, having decriminalized...
Budapest’s young people are joining the ranks of generation rent
The Guardian
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July 4, 2025
When I left my family home to study at university in 2007 and moved to downtown Budapest, housing costs were hardly a topic of conversation among my friends. I rented rooms in centrally located flats for £80-£100 per month. Fast forward to 2025...
‘Rubber Bone Politics’: Hungarian Opposition Leader Decries Those Who Take Orban’s Bait
Balkan Insight
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July 9, 2025
Given how negatively Magyar is caricaturing civil society, it is surprising that activists haven’t responded with outrage to it. On the contrary, NGO leaders have appeared rather inclined to take it as a serious criticism of their strategy for...
Napur Architect completes sustainable National Athletics Centre in Budapest
World Architecture Community
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July 9, 2025
Hungarian architecture firm Napur Architect has completed the National Athletics Centre, featuring a visible exoskeleton as the foundational structure for the long-term urban development of the Budapest Southern City Gate project. The National...
Brussels Escalates Attack on Hungary: €18 Billion in EU Funds Remain Frozen
The European Conservative
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July 9, 2025
In an increasingly blatant and politically motivated attack on Hungary, the European Commission has decided to continue withholding €18 billion in EU funds from the country. This latest move dispels any doubts about Brussels’ true motives, which...
Hungarian unions to government: Follow EU rules or risk losing jobs, rights, and investment
Daily News Hungary
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July 4, 2025
Illustration. Photo: depositphotos.com The Hungarian Trade Union Federation issued a statement on Thursday insisting that the government was obliged to enact laws and implement rules drawn up by the European Commission “on the creation of quality...