Kategória: Hírek

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…

A Film Country From the Beginning   Hungary’s role in global filmmaking did not begin with tax rebates, streaming platforms or the recent studio boom. Its film history reaches back to cinema’s earliest years. The Lumière company demonstrated its invention in Budapest in 1896, and one of the earliest Hungarian…

As Hungary enters its post-election transition, one of the businessmen most closely tied to the previous government’s communications empire says he is ready to hand over his companies to the state. That makes Gyula Balásy’s move more than a business decision. It raises a broader question about what happens to…

More Than Warm Water In Hungary, thermal bathing is far more than a form of relaxation. It is not simply about pools, warm water, tiles and steam. The bath is part of the country’s historical memory, a social meeting place, a marker of urban identity and one of Hungary’s most…

Hungary’s foreign policy may be entering one of its most consequential turning points since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. After years in which Budapest repeatedly slowed, blocked or diluted European Union decisions on Kyiv, the new Hungarian leadership is now under pressure to show that the country…

Péter Magyar’s visit to Brussels was at once a political opening, a financial negotiation and a symbolic foreign-policy shift. The leader of the Tisza Party, appearing as Hungary’s incoming prime minister, held talks with Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and António Costa, President of the European…

Fidesz wanted to nominate Péter Szijjártó as one of the deputy speakers of Hungary’s National Assembly, but Tisza refused to support the former foreign minister. The post is now expected to go to Eszter Vitályos instead. In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Péter Magyar made clear that his party would…

On May 9, a new political era will begin in Hungary. That is when the newly elected National Assembly will convene, with Tisza starting the term with a two-thirds majority and Fidesz–KDNP entering the cycle as a much smaller opposition force. The change is not merely about parliamentary numbers: for…