The Budapest Times

14/02/2025

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has expressed optimism that a new US president committed to peace could end the war in Ukraine. Speaking on public Kossuth Radio, he emphasized Hungary’s long-standing peace strategy and highlighted the potential for major geopolitical and economic shifts.

14/02/2025

Patriots for Europe: Energy prices must come down immediately!
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/world/patriots-for-europe-energy-prices-must-come-down-immediately/

The ‘Patriots for Europe’ group is calling on the EU Commission to take immediate action in response to spiralling energy prices.

13/02/2025

‘If Hungary had bowed to the demands from Berlin and Brussels,
things would be as bad for us today as they are in Germany’.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the joint press conference today
with chancellor candidate Alice Weidel on left-wing greenwoke migration policy.

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„Hätte sich Ungarn den Forderungen aus Berlin und Brüssel gebeugt,
sähe es bei uns heute so schlecht aus wie in Deutschland“.
Ministerpräsident Viktor Orbán heute auf der gemeinsamen Pressekonferenz
mit Kanzlerkandidatin Alice Weidel zur linksgrünwoken Migrationspolitik.

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12/02/2025

Australia's TFE Hotels welcomes A by Adina to Europe

With the opening of A by Adina Vienna Danube, Australian hotel group TFE Hotels is celebrating the European debut of its premium apartment brand, A by Adina. The new 120-room apartment-style hotel, which will open in April in the impressive 180-metre-high DANUBEFLATS skyscraper in the Austrian capit...

11/02/2025

We're already in full swing preparing for the launch of our latest exhibition, and we're excited for you to immerse yourselves in a world at the intersection of fashion and folk art!🌹
We've put together a truly spectacular and stunning, colourful exhibition featuring countless unique garments, from the early 20th century to the present day, following how the forms and motifs of popular culture have influenced fashion designers.
We are waiting for you from 13 February to 30 October, open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10-18 hours.

11/02/2025

"Everyone sees that we are the future."
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/world/orban-everyone-sees-that-we-are-the-future/

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán took the stage at the Patriots for Europe Summit in Madrid to enthusiastic applause, delivering an energizing speech filled with historical reflections, political defiance, and a call for conservative resurgence.

09/02/2025

"The 13th-month pension is part of Hungary's system and will remain so."

At the Government Info, Minister Gergely Gulyás addressed several key issues, including pension policy, housing programs, and the latest developments regarding the Rákosrendező land purchase. He also responded to questions about external political pressures and Hungary’s diplomatic stance.

07/02/2025

Our embroidery patterns protect our mental health. Their vibrations leave open a loophole in the brain, so to speak, through which light can flow into our consciousness.The power of hand embroidery is far more powerful than that of a photograph, because it contains the energy of the creator. That is why our ancestors said that they put their hearts and souls in it. So take it and create with that in mind, because we need protection in today's world."
The spiritual content of folk art, in folk art we find representations of plants, animals, people and geometry that carry deep meaning. Messages written in the language of symbols convey cosmic knowledge. In ancient times, art was sacred, music, dance, drawings, paintings and sculpture were part of rituals, as they still are among primitive peoples.

07/02/2025

Alien spaceship? An ancient shrine? A temple of healing? The correct answer is the third one: this is Hagymatikum, the renowned thermal bath of Makó, where, thanks to the view, not only the body but also the spirit regains its power.

06/02/2025

State Secretary: Government to ease conditions for subsidised credit for SMEs

The government will ease the conditions for subsidised credit for SMEs to support purchases of equipment and make technology upgrades, widening the scope of eligible businesses.

06/02/2025

Good morning, Brussels view. There's someone waiting for everyone, but it doesn't matter where!
The table shows who is concerned about (lack of) public safety in each country. The Swedes are terribly worried, the French and Dutch very worried, and our Polish friends and ourselves - with strong border controls - hardly at all.

05/02/2025

"Trump's return to politics was a favourable development for Hungary."
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/orban-trumps-return-to-politics-was-a-favorable-development-for-hungary/

The prime minister said he hoped that the Americans would invest more in Hungary again, adding that "they have recently even fallen behind China".

03/02/2025

"We were the West's black sheep. Now it turns out we are the future."

In a recent interview with Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán outlined Hungary’s position in a rapidly changing world, emphasizing that the country’s long-held policies have been vindicated by global shifts. With Donald Trump back in power, he sees an opportunity for stronger U....

02/02/2025

Eat, drink and be free!

Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of the newly reunified Germany, described the Pan-European Picnic near Hungarian city Sopron on August 19, 1989 as where the “first stone was removed from the Berlin Wall”. For Assistant Professor Matthew Longo it was “the initial tug by which the entire Iron Curtain wo...

01/02/2025

In the face of uncertainty

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. Last year, 32 students from Sierra Leone were awarded scholarships to study in Hungary for their ...

31/01/2025

AI-driven content moderation on social media raises user concerns.
https://www.budapesttimes.hu/hungary/ai-driven-content-moderation-on-social-media-raises-user-concerns/

A recent study by the media regulator NMHH shows how AI moderation is shaping social media and causing uncertainty.

30/01/2025

Drop in exports trade balance to decline.

The volume of export lessened by 3.8% and that of import surpassed the same period of the previous year’s level by 2.8%, compared to the same period of the previous year. The surplus was EUR 819 million, the balance deteriorated by EUR 639 million, year-on-year. The adjusted volume of export lagge...

28/01/2025

"Holocaust was 'inexplicable, unjistifiable and unacceptable low point.'

Tibor Navracsics noted that the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp had been liberated on this day 80 years ago.