• L-E-V by Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar, Trafó Budapest, 18 September

    • 16 Sep 2015 9:20 AM

    Hot, sexy, rhythmic – fine movements, popping shapes, crooked elegance. L-E-V, co-run by Eyal’s artistic and her life partner Gai Behar, incorporates the Gaga dance language Eyal learned at Batsheva but also features Eyal’s trademark combination of androgyny, tribalism, and eroticism.

  • “Refugee Tripping” Scandal In Hungary: Victim’s Facebook Profile Hints To Links With Terror Group Al Qaeda

    • 15 Sep 2015 9:10 AM

    Osamah Al Abd Al Mohsen, the Syrian man who made headlines across the world after being tripped by a camerawoman while fleeing police with his child on Hungary’s border with Serbia, has been linked to the Al Nusra Front – the Syrian branch of the terror group Al Qaeda, the news website alfahir.hu has revealed, citing the "This is Christian Syria" Facebook page.

  • Hungarian Police Seal Off Border At Röszke

    • 15 Sep 2015 9:04 AM

    Police sealed off the borders at Röszke crossing point on the border with Serbia at 4.30 pm on Monday. The section of the border in question is the point most affected by illegal migrants coming from Serbia. Migrants will no longer be allowed through the point where the Szeged-Subotica railway line intersects the joint border and the border fence. Through this gap in the barrier, thousands of migrants entered the country every day

  • Video: Hungary's PM Orban: Europe In Great Danger

    • 14 Sep 2015 9:00 AM

    Hungarian PM’s comments come ahead of his talks in Brussels on the migrant crisis. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán delivered a passionate defense of his government’s controversial refugee policies, casting the debate as a clash of cultures that threatens to undo Europe. “Europe is not being pressured by a ‘refugee problem’ or a ‘refugee situation,’” he wrote in an op-ed for Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. “Rather, the continent is under threat of an ever-growing modern exodus.”

  • Conductor Iván Fischer: There Is So Much To Do In Hungary

    • 14 Sep 2015 1:00 AM

    In the wake of touring Europe’s most prestigious festivals and the megalopolis of South America, the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BFO) is going on tour around Hungary’s small villages and provincial towns. A special Autism-friendly Cocoa Concert will complement the free Community Week programme, during which the young (and mostly Roma) inhabitants of Cserdi will be able to enjoy the orchestra’s performances just as much as the audience in the abandoned synagogue at Dombóvár.