The former President of the Hungarian Academy of Science's bid to become the joint opposition's prime ministerial candidate foundered at...

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... like Doubting Thomas who put his fingers in the wounds of Christ." Hungarian-born, British author and poet George Szirtes recalls his...

My phone rang: It was Debbie Goldthorpe, head of the Commercial Section. “The Twin Towers are on Fire. Come up to the Information Section...

From Saturday 11 September: Service Frequency to be 20 minutes, First Bus to Airport at 03.30, Last Bus to City at 00.35. Fare Remains...

The saga of the Danube dam controversy between Hungary and [Czecho-] Slovakia from the early 1990s may baffle younger readers - but one...

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You've probably never heard of Professor Tsuneo Morita, since he's a Japanese economist, academic and businessman largely focused on...

The Organ Minders! In this Guest Post, Alan Sutton reveals the joys, woes and hazards encountered as a result of politics playing a role...

For diplomats posted abroad, a visit by their head of government or head of state is about as exciting – and worrying - as it can get. So...

Nigel Thorpe was British Ambassador in friendly Budapest from 1998 – 2003. But that was not how it all started: he began his overseas...

"Hungary might have had a Todor Zivkov, or that asshole in Prague, ... What was his name?" Horn defends General Secretary and 1956 Soviet...

"I was told to talk seriously, and talk openly to you. So, let's do that." Former PM Gyula Horn speaks to the Hungarian International...

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The Foreign Minister who cut the Iron Curtain, the Socialist Prime Minster who privatised the economy, the Communist Militia Man who...

The day meant to honour the memory of executed 1956 PM Imre Nagy and other victims of the 1956 Revolution is remembered for a young,...