The Present and Future of US–Hungary Relations Discussed at Ludovika University

The centennial celebrations of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights between the United States and Hungary resumed with two insightful panel discussions about the current state and the potential future of relations between the two...

Xploring Hungary Video: Turkish Bath in Eger

The Turkish Bath in Eger is a great place to visit - not just because of its healing properties and architecture, but because the city of Eger is full of cultural and historical sights (including a castle with real cannons!), and it is in a famous...

Brussels unveils new LGBTIQI+ strategy focused on online hate and conversion practices

Brussels – One in three LGBTIQI+ people in Europe has suffered discrimination in the last 12 months. EU Equality Commissioner Hadja Lahbib sounds the alarm: “We are facing a disturbing regression.” Brussels presented today (October 8) initiatives...

Orbán Is Right: The Euro Would Cripple Hungary

In a recent interview with economx.hu, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made clear that his country is not going to join the euro. His prime opponent in the upcoming election, Péter Magyar, appears open to replacing the forint with the euro....

EU clamps down on ‘hate speech’ in LGBTIQ+ strategy

Brussels is planning to expand its hate speech policies, threatening to criminalise those who do not agree with what the European Union calls its “founding values”. In its 2026–2030 LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy, a plan released in September to combat...

Winners of the Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism Awards 2025 revealed

The winners were announced during the Award ceremony that took place in the European Capital of Smart Tourism 2025, Sibiu, Romania, on 2 October 2025. The ‘Destination of Sustainable Cultural Tourism’ Awards aim to enhance the visibility of...

European Parliament rejects Hungary's request to lift MEP Magyar, Salis and Dobrev's immunities

The European Parliament rejected the Hungarian government's request to lift the immunities of MEPs Péter Magyar, Ilaria Salis and Klára Dobrev in a tense vote on Tuesday. The Hungarian authorities requested that their immunity be lifted as part of...

EU's new LGBTIQ+ strategy 'does not meet today’s reality,' critics say

The European Commission unveiled a new LGBTIQ+ strategy for 2026-2030 on Wednesday (8 October) amid a climate that many describe as increasingly hostile, with rising anti-LGBTIQ+ rhetoric and restrictive legislation in several EU member states....

English football, right-wing politics, and a new front in the culture wars

It is the small hours of the morning and outside the Red Bar in central Belgrade, there are a dozen or so travelling England supporters making themselves heard ahead of a World Cup qualifier against Serbia. There are the usual chants that provide...

Brussels launches new LGBTQ+ strategy targeting hate speech, conversion therapy

The EU pledged on Wednesday to crack down on hate speech and conversion therapy as part of the Commission’s new LGBTQ+ strategy, but civil society groups say it lacks teeth. The five-year strategy, unveiled by equality chief Hadja Lahbib, lands...

What Japan’s New PM Means for Hungary

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), Japan’s current and longtime ruling party, has selected Sanae Takaichi as its new party leader and is set to become the country’s first female Prime Minister in its history. While that in itself is a historic...

Wounded IDF soldiers find healing on the Danube

The skies above us are undergoing a makeover from their naive, casual blue, transforming into sinister copses with saturnine streaks. Heavy droplets of rain splash into ripples on the surface of the river. We are on the deck of a boat with some...

World Aquatics breaks ground on future headquarters in Budapest

BUDAPEST, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- A landmark development is starting in Budapest's 13th District on Tuesday, as the foundation stone was laid for the new global headquarters of World Aquatics (formerly FINA). The world's third-largest sports federation...

EU waters down climate target in last-ditch deal before COP30 in Brazil

Bloc agrees compromises to win over sceptical countries as climate concerns take backseat to trade and defence. Published On 5 Nov 20255 Nov 2025 European Union climate ministers have struck a watered-down deal on emission-reduction goals as they...

Czech foreign minister says sanctions threat off the table as EU mellows on Israel

There is no chance that the European Union will impose sanctions on Israel over the conflict in Gaza, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky told The Times of Israel recently, putting the kibosh on threatened penalties meant to pressure Jerusalem...

Balázs Hankó: Tisza wants to deceive Hungarian students about the Erasmus programme

The Tisza Party, following Brussels’ lead, wants to mislead Hungarian students about their right to participate in the Erasmus programme and undermine the successful Pannónia Scholarship Programme — “and doing so in true collar style,” said...

Don’t just blame golden generation — managers did nothing to fix toxic culture

Don’t know about you, but I keep coming back to Franco Baldini. Do you remember the name? This was the silver-haired chancer who was hired at extravagant expense by the FA to be the lieutenant to Fabio Capello, another part-timer (doing a...

News digest: Pellegrini’s immunity gift, Kaliňák’s Kyiv tour, Škoda’s cultural crash

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Watch: Italian lawmaker wanted by Hungary clings to EU immunity

EU lawmakers on Tuesday narrowly rejected Hungary's request to strip left-wing Italian lawmaker Ilaria Salis of her parliamentary immunity for alleged violence at a neo-Nazi rally in Budapest. The European Parliament in Strasbourg backed the...

Suleiman the Magnificent's legacy lives on in Trabzon’s mehter band

In Trabzon, northeastern Türkiye, the birthplace of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the Kanuni Mehteran Band has been preserving national and spiritual values through its performances for over 30 years....