• Hungary’s Political Opposition Is In Ruins, Says Political Capital Election Expert Róbert László

    • 2 Oct 2016 12:00 PM

    Political Capital election expert Róbert László expects over 95 percent of voters participating in Sunday’s referendum will say “No” to the question of whether the EU should mandate the settlement of migrants in Hungary without the consent of parliament. He says the big question is whether enough valid votes will be cast for the referendum to be valid, but thinks that so long as 3 million “No” votes are cast, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will be able to claim a political victory.

  • Miet Warlop (B): Dragging The Bone, Trafó, 30 September & 1 October

    • 30 Sep 2016 9:04 AM

    Oracles, miracles, tunnel of thoughts and acupuncture on objects.<br> For the last ten years or so, the Belgian artist Miet Warlop has been pursuing visual experiments in stage form. Addressing concepts such as ambition, enthusiasm and determination, this new creation merges the immaterial processes of the work into a “sculptural event”.

  • WWF Hungary Project Won Telekom’s Sustainability Press Award

    • 28 Sep 2016 9:00 AM

    The story covering WWF Hungary’s sustainable land use project in Tiszatarján won the ’Big Picture’ category of Telekom’s Sustainability Press Award in Hungary this weekend. Feaured in Hungary’s leading online daily news media INDEX, the report video is covering the sustainable land use project of WWF in Tiszatarján.

  • Xpat Inspiration: Daring Trip To Antarctica

    • 28 Sep 2016 9:00 AM

    Most expats are well traveled folks, and are open to new adventures, so here’s a story to inspire your ‘wanderlust’: Exploring wild oceans, discovering abandoned territories, and going on dangerous adventures are nothing new to Veronica Wynne-Hughes, daughter of an English father and Hungarian mother.

  • Video: Budapest Bomb Blast Footage

    • 28 Sep 2016 8:40 AM

    Below is security camera footage of the blast in downtown Budapest on Saturday night, including shots of the man suspected of planting and detonating the bomb. The 18-minute video posted on police.hu shows the perpetrator walking past the doorway at Teréz körút 2-4 several times before depositing the homemade bomb and a rucksack filled with nails and screws before the arrival of patrolling police.

  • Bryan Adams Concert, Budapest Aréna, 9 October

    • 27 Sep 2016 9:10 AM

    Multi-platinum selling recording artist Bryan Adams announced additional cities to his recent tour. The GET UP TOUR kicked off on February 11th in New York City at the historic Beacon Theatre before hitting cities throughout North America, UK, Ireland and Europe through the end of 2016.

  • Weekend Budapest Blast ‘Not Ideologically Motivated’

    • 27 Sep 2016 9:00 AM

    According to information available so far, it can almost certainly be ruled out that the shrapnel bomb attack in central Budapest at the weekend was ideologically motivated, with no evidence pointing to a jihadist connection, Zsolt Molnár, the head of parliament’s national security committee, said.

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