This past week, on October 23, Hungarians at home and abroad commemorated the revolution of 1956, a time when, after a week of mass...

György Matolcsy, MNB Governor, has a “Personal Issue”, not professional concerns regarding Economy Minister Marton Nagy. György Matolcsy,...

It didn't get much media coverage, but at the beginning of July Policy Solutions, a Hungarian think tank, launched what has become an...

A few pictorial memories of trips to the Tokaj region over the past three decades You'd be lucky to see a Trabbie in Tokaj today - but...

Many Hungarians take pride in what they deem to be an outstanding culture of innovation, though given the great mixture of ethnic groups...

What have the son of a wealthy Czech-Jewish family, a professor at a German university, the author of several books on nationalism that...

An April Fool's Day discovery from 2005 Photo: The view from Jeruzalem - looking south. The nearby church is in the hamlet of Svetinje,...

A two-classroom school run by a charity in Budapest VIII helps children, displaced from their homes in war-ravaged Ukraine, make up their...

Vlado Kreslin, musician, poet and former radio commentator, regarded by many in his native Slovenia as a national icon, will turn 70 on...

In their own words: Mr Pulai, a political scientist/pollster, argues results of next June's European Parliamentary elections could be...

Artists are free, right? Free to paint reality as they see it. Well, an exhibition now on in Budapest puts the mockers on that idea. Art...

First, State secretary Bence Rétvári gave the good news (well, what else?) in early August: More than 18,800 young people applied to take...

The kids and their kids are coming to stay - help, I've got to clean the place up! And among the many layers of journalistic detritus on...

Gerard Gorman, in truth, was much more into Bustards et al than ursus arctos, at least when this photo was taken, up in the Buda Hills...

Almost half of government-party voters see Ukraine as a threat, or very significant threat to Hungary, according to a poll by...

I happened upon a collection of Business Europa magazines earlier today, a long-defunct publication which did its limited best to report...

Yorkshire-born Helen Womack spent three decades in Russia working as a reporter for English-language publications. In this guest post,...

In a quiet, off-the-beaten-track Hungarian village, some 190 km south-west of Budapest, citizens and dignitaries of Hungary, France,...

Kryjivka - 'shelter' in Ukrainian - & founder Yurko Nazaruk - still seem to be going strong Photo: Kryjivka, April 2009. From left to...

Exhibition opens on Tuesday, 18th April at 18.00 hrs - at the 3 7 Gallery, Budapest 1114, Bartók Béla út 37 (4 mins from Móricz Zsigmond...