Kategória: Hírek

The Day Parliament Began Again On 9 May 2026, Hungary’s newly elected National Assembly held its inaugural session. After every election, this is a key constitutional moment, but this year it carried special weight: it marked not only a new parliamentary term, but also a change of government. The new…

A Europe Day with a Message Europe Day, celebrated every year on 9 May, carried unusual political weight in Hungary this year. After twelve years, the European Union flag was once again raised on the building of the Hungarian Parliament. The image was powerful: the blue flag with twelve golden…

Few things are more important in the life of a society than the quiet, often unspoken conviction that the world fundamentally operates in a meaningful way. That facts matter. That rules apply to everyone. That decency has a purpose. And that, sooner or later, actions will have consequences. This is…

What began as a dispute over cultural grants quickly turned into something larger. The scandal around the NKA, Hungary’s National Cultural Fund, is not just about money. It is about how public funding, culture and political influence can become closely linked. The NKA is one of the most important state…

  Opening the secret-police files is one of the new government’s first major political commitments The Tisza government has now officially signaled that it wants to open the files of the communist-era state security services, taking up an issue that has remained one of the largest unresolved questions of Hungarian…

  A well-known evening news brand is disappearing from Hungarian television At first glance, today’s headline looks like a routine television decision. In reality, it means much more. TV2, Hungary’s most-watched commercial broadcaster, is ending its flagship evening news programme, Tények. Officially, the move is being presented as part of…

Giorgia Meloni’s decision to receive Hungary’s prime minister-elect, Péter Magyar, in Rome before the formal transfer of power in Budapest was more than a routine diplomatic courtesy. It signaled that Italy is already treating the incoming Hungarian government as a political reality worth engaging early. The meeting at Palazzo Chigi…

Péter Magyar traveled to Italy this week for the screening of Tavaszi szél – Az ébredés (Spring Wind: The Awakening), the documentary built around his political rise and the movement that formed around him. The film was shown at the Riviera International Film Festival in Sestri Levante, where Magyar appeared…

For the past few years, the Visegrád Four has looked less like a functioning alliance than a hollow framework. Russia’s war against Ukraine, diverging security outlooks and increasingly different national strategies pushed the group into political paralysis. That is why the scene in Yerevan mattered. The Czech, Polish and Slovak…

One of the topics on today’s history graduation exam in Hungary was the Hungarian conquest, and few themes seem more fitting. There are not many events in Hungarian history that are at once so familiar, so symbolic, and yet so easily flattened into a few names and dates. The conquest…