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    Non-central European university

    The controversy surrounding the Central European University seems to be all the rage these days. Well, in Budapest anyways; if you ask someone in the countryside, there is a good[…]

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    Fear not if you have nothing to hide

    The government plans to pass legislation that would make it mandatory for NGOs receiving their funding from abroad to disclose where they are financed from. The law “is a disclosure[…]

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    Jokers and chokers

    Even though some six months ago there was practically full political consensus for the Hungarian capital to battle Los Angeles, Rome and Paris to host the 2024 Olympics, the hopes[…]

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    Keeping on keeping on

    Welcome to 2017, the 15th year of The Budapest Times. When we started in 2003 Brad Pitt was still married, but not to Angelina, to Jennifer Aniston. The Socialists and[…]

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    You’re fired, now celebrate

    After banning Hungarian diplomats from attending Romanian commemorations of the union of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that Hungarians have nothing to celebrate[…]

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    Their heaven is the real hell

    After the government reached an agreement with employers and unions on increasing the minimum wage by 15 percent from January, the Socialist Party accused ruling Fidesz of working to the[…]

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    Opposition for opposition’s sake

    The Socialists, Jobbik and Democratic Coalition are now becoming a group seeking to thwart any initiative, ruling Fidesz’ parliamentary group leader Lajos Kósa told a press conference after new judges[…]

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    From now on, a spade is a spade

    Donald Trump will be the 45th President of the United States of America and some people are not ecstatic about this. So they started protesting. The US of A is[…]