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  • New Poll: Fidesz Ahead by 400,000 Votes If Election Held Now

    New Poll: Fidesz Ahead by 400,000 Votes If Election Held Now

    • 1 Dec 2025 3:43 PM

    If Hungary's election were held now, Fidesz would win 47 percent of the vote, up from 46 percent in August, while the opposition Tisza Party trails at 40 percent, according to a Nezopont Institute survey of 1,000 respondents conducted between Nov 24 and 26.

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  • Hungary Outlaws Lab-Grown Meat

    Hungary Outlaws Lab-Grown Meat

    • 1 Dec 2025 3:04 PM

    The government has imposed a blanket ban on the production and sale of laboratory-grown meat, according to a decree published.

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  • Spreading Holiday Cheer: The Christmas Shoebox Action in Hungary

    Spreading Holiday Cheer: The Christmas Shoebox Action in Hungary

    • 1 Dec 2025 2:24 PM

    The Christmas Shoebox Action (known locally as Cipősdoboz Akció) is a major charity drive aimed at collecting and distributing Christmas gifts to disadvantaged children, primarily here in Hungary. The core goal is simple: to ensure these children receive a present that brings a genuine smile to their faces during the holidays — a simple joy that many of us take for granted—and to offer something that can practically brighten their lives.

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  • Foreign Family Member Became One Millionth Visitor to Budapest Zoo

    Foreign Family Member Became One Millionth Visitor to Budapest Zoo

    • 1 Dec 2025 2:18 PM

    The Budapest Zoo welcomed its one millionth visitor this year on Thursday. The lucky coincidence was a three-member Croatian family.

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  • Enjoy ‘Mondays Originals’ for a Special Price at ETELE Cinema Budapest, 1 December

    Enjoy ‘Mondays Originals’ for a Special Price at ETELE Cinema Budapest, 1 December

    • 1 Dec 2025 1:08 PM

    On Mondays the team at ETELE Cinema arranges the movie schedule to allow as many films as possible to be shown in the original language - or with subtitles - and on top of that there's a special price to further enhance your movie experience.

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  • 360 Design Products Available at the Gift Terminal in Budapest

    360 Design Products Available at the Gift Terminal in Budapest

    • 1 Dec 2025 7:31 AM

    The products of the exhibitors of 360 Design Budapest will also be available at the Gift Terminal in the Alle Shopping Center, the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency (MDDÜ) told MTI.

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  • See Former Sex Pistol in Budapest: Public Image Ltd to Perform at Dürer Kert Next May

    See Former Sex Pistol in Budapest: Public Image Ltd to Perform at Dürer Kert Next May

    • 1 Dec 2025 7:22 AM

    Public Image Ltd will perform in Hungary next year. The legendary post-punk band led by John Lydon (ex-Sex Pistols) will perform at Dürer Kert on May 20, 2026, sixteen years after their first concert in Hungary.

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  • Charity Fair, Concerts & Community Performances at Maltese Advent Garden in Budapest

    Charity Fair, Concerts & Community Performances at Maltese Advent Garden in Budapest

    • 1 Dec 2025 7:15 AM

    The Hungarian Maltese Charity Service will open an Advent garden at Batthyány Square, where they will welcome visitors with a nativity scene, hot tea, candle lighting, light painting in the evenings, stage programs, and a charity fair offering products from 11 Maltese factories.

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  • Experience Europe’s Top-Rated Christmas Ice Rink in Debrecen

    Experience Europe’s Top-Rated Christmas Ice Rink in Debrecen

    • 1 Dec 2025 6:26 AM

    Debrecen has claimed a major winter accolade: the ice rink set up in front of the city’s iconic Reformed Great Church has been voted Europe’s most beautiful Christmas ice rink for 2025. It’s a striking sight in the main square — a large skating arena framed by historic architecture and thousands of festive lights.

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  • Budapest Dominates List of Hungary’s Most Expensive Streets

    Budapest Dominates List of Hungary’s Most Expensive Streets

    • 1 Dec 2025 5:49 AM

    Seventeen of the 20 most expensive streets in the country in 2024 were located in Budapest, according to freshly updated data from the KSH Property Price Register.

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  • Budapest Puts New Electric Buses into Service

    Budapest Puts New Electric Buses into Service

    • 1 Dec 2025 5:30 AM

    New electric BYD buses will be put into service in the capital from Monday, the Budapest Public Transport Centre (BKK) said. ArrivaBus owns the buses and operates them for BKK.

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  • DK: 'Putin Summoned Orbán to Moscow Again'

    DK: 'Putin Summoned Orbán to Moscow Again'

    • 1 Dec 2025 5:16 AM

    "Russian President Vladimir Putin has summoned Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Moscow again to personally deliver his orders to the Hungarian prime minister," opposition Democratic Coalition (DK) deputy leader Sandor Rónai said on Friday commenting on Orbán's trip to Russia.

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  • Watch: Who is Péter Magyar? What Does His Tisza Party Stand For? And Can Magyar beat Orbán?

    Watch: Who is Péter Magyar? What Does His Tisza Party Stand For? And Can Magyar beat Orbán?

    • 28 Nov 2025 12:49 PM

    Magyar is the most visible new face on Hungary’s political stage — a former Fidesz insider who turned into a high-profile opposition leader almost overnight. He now accuses the government of nepotism, misusing EU funds, and using state media for propaganda, advocating for policies to combat corruption and restore democratic institutions.

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  • Feri Vilisics, Founder & Sausage Master, FERKO in Hungary

    Feri Vilisics, Founder & Sausage Master, FERKO in Hungary

    • 28 Nov 2025 12:38 PM

    Feri is a Hungarian biologist, who moved to Finland with his family thanks to a research position in Helsinki, where he lived for nearly a decade and a half, learned the language, and eventually founded his sausage workshop there.

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