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There is a growing discontent in the air in Budapest. Something that goes beyond the normal level of human complaint. What I’m hearing now is more systemic, more worrying. A[…]
There is a growing discontent in the air in Budapest. Something that goes beyond the normal level of human complaint. What I’m hearing now is more systemic, more worrying. A[…]
“The West Balkan is still an economically underestimated region.” This is Attila Galambos’ firm belief, and as such it is the foundation for his consulting company Communautrade-Europe Kft., which calls[…]
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said he is hopeful of finding a solution to the UK’s in-work benefits issue with his British counterpart David Cameron that is acceptable to Hungarian[…]
The government plans to divide the country’s central region because separating less developed Pest County from Budapest would make the former eligible for EU support. The region which now contains[…]
There is no place in Budapest and probably anywhere in the country where a conversation can take place without the mention of (illegal) migration. Most debates that I have overheard[…]
“We Hungarians are working towards an economy that will provide jobs for all people in this country.” These are the words of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and they sound very[…]
The Hungarian model works! Who would have believed that it was possible to tune up the economy and decrease the budget deficit at the same time, and that there are[…]
Hungary can realistically expect an upgrade of its sovereign rating this year in view of the predictable and stable path it has taken after a stabilisation and monetary policy turnaround[…]
Dr Kelly Hignett is an expert in communist and post-communist Eastern European affairs, a historian and lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK and author of her own blog[…]
Three major Hungarian universities have taken precautions in light of the Ebola outbreak before the start of the new academic year, daily Népszabadság has reported. Debrecen University, where more than[…]