In a letter to the European Parliament, a citizen group has claimed the European People's Party violated fundamental European principles by defending Orban's government.

The robots at the Enjoy Budapest Cafe can do it all — they can serve up food and drink, tell jokes, dance with the kids, or just hang out for a chat with customers.

The doomsday clock is stuck at two minutes to midnight - while in Europe people take to the streets to call against global warming, a name dispute, Brexit. We speak to the Hungarian foreign minister on the dispute with Brussels and Serbian film director Emir Kusturica on his views about the EU.

Péter Szijjártó speaks to Euronews about the European Parliament backing plans to freeze funds to countries violating rule of law. He says such moves are 'basically a matter of revenge against Hungary' for voting the ruling Fidesz party into power.

In this edition we look at what Europe's future policy is on space (including joining up with NASA to smash asteroids), a court ruling on religious holidays, Russia Ukraine gas talks and Hungary's Foreign Minister speaks about rule of law.

In our Futuris series, we visited an escape room in the Hungarian capital, Budapest. A new European research project is working to preserve historical material related to cultural resistance from the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. But how are they achieving that?

The man with a thousand posters

360° tour inside Hungarian cultural dissent

Those are the stories in today's Brief

Lawmakers go after Hungary, Poland, Romania and the likes

Truckers from Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Lithuania say the package divides the transport industry of Eastern and Western Europe

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban held his first government news conference of 2019 in Budapest where he drew a distinct line between European ideologies. Orban laid out his goal of electing an anti-immigration majority in the bloc's parliamentary elections in May.

Populists try to join forces transnationally to beat the establishment

Cross-country alliances want to rock the boat - can they?

The dog, named Marci, ventured onto the frozen lake but became trapped on a patch of very thin ice.

The country's largest soup kitchen is organised by the Food for Life Foundation and has been delivering thousands of hot meals to those in need every year.