No matter that East German leader Walter Ulbricht dubbed the wall built on August 13, 1961 to divide Berlin as an “anti-Fascist protection barrier”. To the free world it was[…]
For us to understand the difficulties Hungary has been going through since 1989, first we need to analyse life under Soviet occupation and how it impacted a nation that already[…]
Vladimir Potapov’s newly created body of work is an outcome of research into Hungary’s cultural history, putting forth a range of well-known figures from the Hungarian pop music industry of[…]
Screeching tyres, screaming engines, rev-heads and pit-babes: the 31st Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix takes place at Hungaroring from July 22 to 24. The race is something of a sports[…]
The Visegrád countries have a difficult standing in Europe today. At a time when hundreds of thousands of refugees flood the continent, there is an outcry in parts of Western[…]
In the past week a number of European leaders have come out against the fence on the southern border of Hungary. Among the “interesting” comments was Italian Prime Minister Matteo[…]
Liberal multiculturalism is not fit to respond to the issues Europe is faced with today, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in his regular state of the nation speech last Friday.[…]
On February 17, Vladimir Putin is going to visit Hungary. This visit reflects the hectic state of foreign policy of the current government. As it is, owing to the visit’s[…]
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has been named as a runner-up in corruption after Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), a non-profit organisation of[…]
As part of The Budapest Times’ coverage of Holocaust Memorial Year 2014, we are publishing a four-part series of works of historical recollection from 1944 called “Children are the Light”[…]
