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Not quite as bad as a "Pile of Meats" but it's getting there - Foreign language knowledge in Hungary is improving, slowly, but it could,...

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,...

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Christ, the Gospels say, is to return like a "thief in the night" - Pope Francis is currently planning something similar, but in broad...

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