Hungary

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EURO 2020: This is your quick guide to Hungary

Hungary are not expected to progress beyond a tough group this summer. Could they be the tournament's surprise package?

11/06/2021

Hungary

Hungary proposes banning the 'promotion' of homosexuality to children

Hungary's ruling Fidesz party has tabled new legislation which would ban educational programmes, books or films that promote homosexuality or transsexuality.

11/06/2021

Sport

Matic delivers Croatia a first ever World Championship gold

No Croatian had ever won a Judo World Championships gold medal - but Barbara Matic put that right in the -70kg contest on day five of the year’s tournament in Budapest.

10/06/2021

My Europe Series

Meet the emperor's grandson who wants to patch things up with France

György Habsburg, a descendant of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy, has been appointed Hungarian ambassador to France.

10/06/2021

Sport

Europeans takes clean sweep on day four in Budapest

France’s Clarisse Agbegnenou danced in the aisles at the World Judo Championships in Budapest - but her switch to focus was instantaneous.

09/06/2021

Sport

Judo World Championships Day Three

Glory for Georgia on Day Three of the Judo World Championships in Budapest and an epic battle between two Canadians

08/06/2021

Hungary

World Judo Championships day two

Discipline and determination result in another great day for Japan at the Judo World Championships in the Hungarian capital Budapest.

08/06/2021

Sport

Great first day for Japan as World Judo Championships start in Hungary

Japan and Russia show their class as the World Judo Championships get underway in Hungary.

07/06/2021

Hungary

Crowds in Budapest rally against Chinese university campus plan

The Fudan University campus is being built with a €1.3 billion loan from China despite local opposition.

06/06/2021

My Europe Series

'I was innocent': Soviet-era ghosts return to haunt vaccine scientist

Katalin Kariko fled Communist Hungary to pursue her dream of helping to cure disease. 35 years later, her past is being weaponised.

25/05/2021

Hungary

COVID vaccine biochemist was listed as Communist-era police informant

Katalin was recruited in 1978 but she says that she never filed a report for Hungary's feared State Security Service. She has been tipped as a potential Nobel Prize winner.

24/05/2021

Hungary

Katalin Karikó honoured in her Hungarian home town for COVID jab work

Karikó, who is the vice-president of BioNTech, became best known for her work with mRNA technology that is used in the Pfizer and Moderna Covid vaccines.

22/05/2021

Hungary

Budapest's liberal mayor announces election bid to oust Viktor Orbán

Gergely Karácsony hopes to run as the united opposition's candidate for prime minister when Hungary goes to the polls next year.

15/05/2021

World

Hungary first EU country to allow COVID-19 vaccine from 16

Teenagers are getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Hungary - the first EU nation to allow it from the age of 16. Children from 12 are getting it in Canada, Israel, UAE and US.

14/05/2021

Money

Hungary is set to cut taxes on cryptocurrencies by half from 2022

Hungary is cutting tax on cryptocurrency earnings by half as interest in the crypto market drives it to all-time highs.

12/05/2021

Hungary

Euroviews. Hungary is not a semi-dictatorship, Klubrádió didn't comply | View

Klubrádió's owner omitted a few important facts, writes Zoltán Kovács, Hungary's Secretary of State for International Communication and Relations.

11/05/2021

Hungary

Euroviews. Hungary is becoming a semi-dictatorship as the EU watches idly | View

"The EU has ignored the fact that within its borders a government is disregarding democratic values, leading the country towards populist-nationalist semi-dictatorship while they collect European taxpayers’ money."

10/05/2021

Hungary

Covid cancellation fears for Hungary’s festival season this summer

Organisers of Hungary's summer concerts and festivals are frustrated at the uncertainty over government coronavirus plans

08/05/2021

Hungary

Hungary agrees to open Chinese university campus in Budapest by 2024

The deal would make the Shanghai-based Fudan University campus the first Chinese university campus in the European Union.

02/05/2021

Hungary

Hungary loosens COVID restrictions for those with immunity cards

People with government-issued coronavirus immunity cards can now go indoors to restaurants, theatres, cinemas, spas, gyms and other recreational venues.

01/05/2021

Hungary

Hungary's parliament overhauls higher education amid outcry

Critics have decried the reform as a theft of public funds and a takeover of Hungary's higher education system by Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

27/04/2021

Hungary

Klubrádió: Frequency to be taken over by group close to Orbán

The liberal-leaning commercial station was one of the only remaining opposition radio voices in Hungary.

11/04/2021

Hungary

Hungary to ease lockdown despite COVID-19 surge

PM Viktor Orban said the country could start reopening after more than a quarter of the population has been inoculated.

06/04/2021

Hungary

Black Lives Matter statue torn down a day after its Budapest unveiling

"The rainbow stripes are undoubtedly very irritating to the vandals," its creator told Euronews

02/04/2021

Hungary

Let us into hospitals to show real COVID picture, says Hungary's media

A government decree bans journalists from reporting inside hospitals or interviewing health care professionals. Journalists say this risks "exacerbating the epidemic".

01/04/2021

Hungary

Despite vaccination success, Hungary sets daily record COVID deaths

Hungary leads the EU in percentage of population vaccinated against COVID-19, but it is currently suffering a devastating surge in deaths.

31/03/2021