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...

In their own words: Ágoston Mráz, Director of the pro-government Nézőpont Institute, spoke to the Hungarian International Press...

Photo: Not writing papers about it, not debating policy, but doing it - teaching Roma students. That's former MP Tibor Derdák (right),...

Robert 'Gene' Brown and Marylin Ball-Brown are two 'ordinary' Americans who retired to Hungary hoping to spend the rest of their lives...

In Their own Words: Former Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Balázs (along with György Surányi, former governor of Hungary's central...

Left-leaning political think tank Policy Solutions, in co-operation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Budapest, launched the latest...

A wintry scene from the Hungarian capital, almost certainly taken in 1992-93. Photo: Judging from the struggle this little mite has to...

This is the first time on this blog I've used the same picture for two different posts. There's a very good reason for that. Photo: The...

Minister in charge of putting Hungary's case to the European Commission regarding rule of law and corruption speaks to the Hungarian...

I braved a cold, wet trip back and forth across town in November to savour the latest nectar from Mezőzombor, north-east Hungary - Well,...

Miklós Ligeti, Legal Director of anti-corruption NGO Transparency International Magyar-ország, spoke to the Hungarian International Press...

Location: the Commonwealth War Cemetery, Solymár Photo: British Commonwealth and fellow ambassadors at the Solymár Remembrance service...