I’ve thought long and hard about what to write about in this, my first column of 2025. I recently returned from Sierra Leone where I read about Hungary’s Stipendium Hungaricum Scholarship Programme.

After six months of operation, the Hungarian deposit system is recording impressive return figures of 100 bottles per second.

According to preliminary data, 6,339 children were born and 11,773 people died in December 2024. The number of births lessened by 4.1%, that of deaths by 7.0% and that of marriages by 25% compared to ...

Industrial producer prices were 9.0% higher on average in December 2024 than one year earlier. Domestic output prices were 4.0% and non-domestic output prices 11.5% higher than in December 2023. The ...

Hungary’s economy is gaining momentum, and 2025 is set to be a breakthrough year—this was the key message from Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during his regular Friday interview on Kossuth Radio. The ...

The NMHH has commissioned a study that sheds light on how Facebook and YouTube moderate content and restrict accounts. According to study author Zsolt Ződi, large platforms use artificial intelligence ...

This behaviour by the ambassador not only endangered Hungary’s sovereignty, it also violated the rules of diplomacy, the spokesperson for the pro-government forum CÖF-CÖKA said at a press conference ...

The minister defined the concrete objective of developing small modular reactors (SMRs) in the near future. Both countries rely heavily on nuclear energy and have defended their current nuclear power ...

Zoltán Kovács, the state secretary for international communication and relations, said on Facebook on Wednesday that although German Chancellor Olaf Scholz meant his comparison of CDU leader Friedrich ...

Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky, Defense Minister, signed a memorandum of understanding with the United Arab Emirates’ EDGE Group on cooperation in the defense industry R+D+I in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.

Zsolt Németh, Head of the Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs committee, said on Wednesday that last October’s parliamentary election in Georgia was in line with democratic norms, adding that the ...

Valerie Huber, one of the initiators of the international agreement on women and family policy, said Hungary’s role could expand in the wake of the United States rejoining the Geneva Consensus ...