Die Linke and the AfD are reshaping Berlin’s political map ahead of September’s election, with the radical left leading on 22 per cent and the hard right party tied with the CDU on 18. Their combined support has almost doubled since 2023, while the SPD has collapsed to 12 per cent and the governing parties that once dominated the capital now command only 30 per cent.

The Save Europe Act has passed 700,000 signatures less than three months after launch, keeping the remigration campaign on course for its one-million target despite Brussels refusing to register it as an official ECI. Co-founder Eva Vlaardingerbroek says the next steps are to reach one million and take the European Commission to court over the decision.

‘It does not matter how high you build a castle’s walls if a backdoor is left open. In a migration-policy context, one of the most infamous backdoors is the asylum system itself. As long as the authorities allow asylum seekers to enter through official border crossing points…the border is not really secured.’

At least four migrant boys have been raped and remain hospitalized in Ceuta, as the number of victims in the aftermath of the mass invasion continues to rise. Judicial proceedings now cover at least 14 victims, many of them underage, while police have deployed specialists to protect thousands of minors still in the enclave, where the child protection system is operating at 4,600 per cent of normal capacity.

A dramatic police chase unfolded along the northern shore of Lake Balaton after a Mercedes driver refused to stop for police. Officers fired at the vehicle’s tyres, but the man continued fleeing, ramming several police cars before crashing into a utility pole in Balatonfüred, Hungary.

Hungary’s first St Stephen’s Day under Péter Magyar showed both continuity and change in its foreign relations. Washington remained firmly present, Zelenskyy paired his greeting with an invitation to Kyiv, and Pakistan and India joined the list. Israel, by contrast, disappeared after having prominently celebrated its friendship with Orbán’s Hungary in 2025.

Nathan Cafnas, the self-described ‘race realist’ researcher who first published the accusations of plagiarism against Jason Arday, has been suspended from his position by Ghent University pending an investigation. He blames the decision on rector Petra De Sutter, who was also the first transgender minister to serve in a European Union country.

‘The actual data tell…that Muslim migrants are disproportionately represented in jihadi terrorism in Europe…Such an implication may be inconvenient for the defenders of open borders, who would prefer to talk about the menace of the far right, but it is nonetheless true.’

Two Afghan illegal immigrants have been found guilty of a knifepoint rape in Barking Park, England, while two other Afghan migrants appeared in court the same day accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on a train to London. The cases broke amid ridicule of new Home Office guidance explaining rape and sexual harassment to asylum seekers, sharpening the political backlash.

Péter Magyar’s first St Stephen’s Day as prime minister has been overshadowed by allegations that the company awarded the celebrations contract had been discussing the project weeks before procurement formally began. The controversy, which dominated the day, undermined Tisza’s symbolic, regime-change-themed 20 August and left Magyar unusually silent.

‘In the event of any engagement with the Taliban, it is crucial for governments to establish a formal framework that incorporates Afghan women in pivotal conversations about the future of Afghanistan.’

A former British police officer has been convicted of sharing a meme mocking Islam, reigniting debate over free speech and Britain’s blasphemy laws. The case has also drawn attention in the US, with Senator Ted Cruz condemning the conviction and declaring on X: ‘No meme is criminal. The UK has fallen.’

Florida’s 2026 primaries delivered another strong result for Republicans, with Trump-endorsed Byron Donalds easily winning the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Republicans also turned out in greater numbers than Democrats, while the biggest surprise came on the Democratic side, where Democratic Socialist Angie Nixon defeated Alex Vindman despite being heavily outspent.

Ceuta’s rape epidemic continues to deepen, with JUPOL warning that groups of Moroccan and North African illegal migrants are dragging girls into secluded mountainous terrain and rape them. 15 cases have already been confirmed since the July mass invasion, while officials are racing to place hundreds of vulnerable migrant girls into emergency accommodation.

More than 30 laws, two constitutional amendments and a series of measures aimed at reforming Hungary were among the achievements of the new Tisza-majority parliament’s first 100 days, the governing party’s parliamentary group said on Wednesday.

Swietelsky will rebuild the 13.6-kilometre railway section between Almásfüzitő and Komárom for 36.3 billion forints. The project aims to enable trains to travel at up to 160 km/h while improving safety, accessibility and passenger facilities.

Finnish MP Päivi Räsänen, convicted over citing a Bible passage on homosexuality, has been blocked from entering the United Kingdom, leaving her unable to attend a Northern Ireland conference where she was due to speak about freedom of speech. ADF CEO Kristen Waggoner urged Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to intervene, arguing that Britain should not uphold another country’s ‘heavy-handed censorship’.

Hungarians used almost twice as much mobile data per day while abroad in 2025 as they did three years earlier, according to the latest report by the National Media and Infocommunications Authority (NMHH). At the same time, the amount of roaming voice calls began to decline last year.

Viktor Orbán himself is under review in a confidential Fidesz survey asking members to rate his competence, judge the party’s loss of moral credibility and even consider dissolving Fidesz altogether. The move suggests the former governing party is finally reconsidering assumptions that remained untouchable throughout its years in power, paving the way for the possibility of a genuine self-reflection.

‘After a day or two I no longer felt like a guest, but like an integral member of an old family-and-friends kind of community.’ The 50th ITT-OTT Conference brought together Hungarian Americans and members of the wider diaspora for a week of culture, intellectual exchange, music, dance, food and enduring friendship.

The four-day Strand Festival opens in Zamárdi on Wednesday, featuring Hungarian and international performers, contemporary art exhibitions, theatre productions and gastronomic programmes. The festival will also mark 20 August with a large fireworks display over Lake Balaton.

The Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport was reportedly planning to add so-called ‘wudu’ Muslim foot wash stations to accommodate the religious minority’s practice. However, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas has threatened to revoke the airport’s state grants for religious discrimination and referred it for investigation to the US Department of Transportation, thus the plans were scrapped.

Apple has trained a large language model specifically for the Chinese market with support from Alibaba, according to three people familiar with the matter. The move marks a shift from the company’s previous reliance on third-party Chinese AI models.

A Berlin emergency nurse has described how treating members of Arab criminal clans can turn hospital wards into security operations, with police alerts, relatives flooding facilities and staff taking precautions against intimidation. His account comes as official figures show clan-related crime rising in Berlin, with 952 offences recorded across the city in 2025.

Hungarian telecommunications and technology group 4iG said it will cooperate with government investigations into its contracts involving the state. The company said its operations and transactions have complied with Hungarian and EU law.

Hungary’s government has ordered a full audit of the Hungary Helps Agency, with every contract and completed payment set to be reviewed as part of a wider reset of the country’s flagship humanitarian programme launched under Viktor Orbán. Deputy Foreign Minister György László Velkey said the agency would continue operating and that a public competition had been opened for the position of chief executive.

‘As geopolitical tensions continue to rise and the self-proclaimed 2027 deadline set by China to be ready and capable of invading Taiwan approaches, NATO nations now more than ever need to close the capability gaps in the Great White North.’

Between 100 and 200 mainly Moroccan illegal migrants have begun a hunger strike in Ceuta, demanding asylum, transfer to mainland Spain and ‘equal treatment’. The protest comes as hundreds of Moroccan applicants receive negative decisions, while the Spanish enclave’s mayor-president declares there will be ‘no regularization, no asylum and no transfer to the Peninsula’.

ELTE and the University of Szeged have been named Hungary’s top universities in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities, both placing in the 501–600 range. Four Hungarian institutions made the world’s top 1,000, led globally by Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.

‘Meet your new neighbor, America,’ Alberta separatists declared as they promoted an October referendum that could set the province on a path towards a later independence vote. The oil-rich conservative stronghold is being branded the ‘Texas of the North’, while separatist groups increasingly cultivate links with the United States under Donald Trump.