Robert Palladino’s tenure as Chargé d’Affaires in Budapest is ending as Ambassador-designate Benjamin Landa prepares to take over. Bryan Leib praised Palladino’s professionalism and his efforts to strengthen the US–Hungary alliance in a heartfelt farewell message on X….
More than 100 screenings, including festival award contenders and two Hungarian premieres, will be held across 27 art cinemas nationwide this Sunday as Hungary joins the 10th European Arthouse Cinema Day, organizers announced on Wednesday….
A new AI-based vision model developed by researchers at the HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics could advance the understanding of brain function while making machine vision systems more accurate and reliable, the institute announced on Tuesday….
The Hungarian Institute of International Affairs’ first EastSec Forum examined Europe’s shifting security landscape amid the Russo–Ukrainian war. Speakers, including HIIA President Gladden J Pappin and Zachary Paikin of the Quincy Institute, stressed Hungary’s growing mediating role, the collapse of…
Mathias Corvinus Collegium hosted a major conference in Budapest on the global drug epidemic, warning that the narcotics industry, backed by vast networks, is undermining communities. Experts stressed prevention, youth protection, and international cooperation as key to resisting drug normalization…
‘Since the masses are easily manipulated, democracy is the natural breeding ground for demagogues, and a straight path leads from it to totalitarianism.’…
Hungary’s upcoming war drama Dragons over Kabul uses an unprecedented scale of CGI to recreate the 2021 Kabul evacuation mission. The filmmakers say the production aims to honour the dedication, courage and sacrifice of Hungarian soldiers….
‘Football would not be the world’s number one sport if it did not carry that unique emotional charge. And often, it is heartbreakingly unfair—for us Hungarians, perhaps more often than for others…We may indeed have to forget about the World…
Semmelweis University has been named Central Europe’s top institution, and Hungary aims to elevate it into the ranks of Europe’s and the world’s leading universities, officials said at the opening of the university’s new Diagnostic and Therapeutic Centre in Budapest….
Hungarian film Landslide (Földindulás), directed by Zsolt Pozsgai, has taken home the Best Drama award at France’s prestigious Red Movie Awards, with Irén Bordán and Gábor Koncz earning the festival’s special prize for Best Lead Pair. The digitally restored 2014…
