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….
‘Even in 2015, when the PiS government came to power, individuals with communist pedigrees were still numerous within the less visible but essential layers of state administration, the judiciary, the economy, NGOs, and the media. Today these networks are returning…The…
The government will begin talks with municipalities in January on reforming the solidarity contribution system, but no changes are considered realistic before the elections, Minister Tibor Navracsics said in an interview published 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…
Hungary has become China’s most important economic partner in Europe outside the EU, with nearly a third of all Chinese investment headed to Europe last year arriving in Hungary, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Tuesday in Budapest….
Hungary’s average gross monthly wage reached 687,100 forints in September 2025, while net earnings rose to 475,100 forints. Both gross and net wages increased by around 10 per cent year-on-year, with real wages growing by 5.5 per cent, according to…
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary unveiled an 11-point plan with the Chamber of Commerce to cut taxes and reduce bureaucracy. The package includes higher VAT-exemption limits, lower burdens for sole proprietors, expanded small-business tax options, and new incentives for…
After ICE agents were deployed in Charlotte, NC (the city where Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska was brutally murdered earler this year), one Democratic official in the state posted a video claiming that ICE agents are ‘specifically coming to terrorize communities…
