Center for Fundamental Rights Senior Fellow and US Ambassador to Hungary hopeful Bryan Leib has sent an open letter to the CEOs of major American passenger airlines, urging them to start offering non-stop, direct flights between the most populous American cities and Budapest.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó had a phone conversation with newly confirmed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday. Secretary Rubio assured Minister Szijjártó that the vindictive actions of the Biden administration against Hungary will be reviewed.

In an interview on Tara Palmeri’s podcast, journalist Marc Caputo revealed that he was told while working for POLITICO not to write about the Hunter Biden laptop story, which could have damaged Democrat nominee Joe Biden before the 2020 election.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó of Hungary met with Mercedes-Benz executive Jörg Burzer this week, and stressed the importance of cooperation with the German car manufacturing giant in a Facebook post afterwards. Mercedes has a plant in Kecskemét, Hungary which currently employs around 4,500 people.

As Donald Trump and his boarder czar Tom Homan have promised, ICE started apprehending illegal aliens all across the United States on day one of the new Trump administration. They also go into sanctuary cities, which refuse to cooperate with federal agencies in their deportation efforts.

Ministerial Commissioner for Space Research Dr Orsolya Ferencz has stated that it is important for the EU to compete with the global players in the space sector, such as China, India, the United States, Russia, Japan and the Arab countries. To achieve this, the EU needs a common space law and cooperation among its member states.

Elon Musk’s gesture at one of President Trump’s inaugural balls is getting a lot of mainstream media coverage, with many comparing it to a Nazi salute. However, such associations tend to not stick with the public at all by now, as proven by the events leading up to the 2024 US presidential election.

In a recent analysis by Asia Times looking at the effect of government family subsidy programmes on increased fertility rates, Hungary is cited as ’one of the world’s few demographic success stories.’

Ernő Schaller-Baross has stated in an interview with Hír TV that Donald Trump’s victory in the United States is proof that conservative, patriotic voices are getting stronger around the world, including Europe.

Accomplished actors Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, and Jon Voight will be serving as President Trump’s ‘special envoys’ to Hollywood to bring the film industry back to success. But they are not the only household-name celebrities who support the newly inaugurated President.

Seven individuals in Germany have admitted to the local police to being the suspects of the February 2023 Antifa attacks in Budapest. They are asking not to be extradited to Hungary, fearing ‘inhumane conditions’ and a long prison sentence in ‘right-wing authoritarian’ Hungary.

A 40-year-old man from Hungary was arrested in Germany for travelling 30 kilometres on a high-speed train while hanging onto the cables that connect the railroad cars without a ticket. The suspect hopped off the train for a cigarette, and could only get on the plates between the carriages as it was leaving.

President Donald Trump is set to take office for the second time in Washington, D.C. today, 20 January. However, 20 January was not the original inauguration date. In fact, the first inauguration of George Washington was not even held in Washington, D.C. Here’s a brief rundown of the history of presidential inaugurations in the United States.

Katalin Karikó received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2023 for her contributions to developing the COVID-19 vaccination. The great Hungarian American biochemist, who is currently teaching at the University of Szeged in her home country of Hungary, is celebrating her 70th birthday today.

City Councilor Thu Nguyen in Worcester, Massachusetts has been refusing to show up to meetings in person despite the urging of Mayor Joseph Petty. She claims she feels ‘unsafe’ due to the transphobia of other Council members who have misgendered her. Nguyen prefers to be referred to by the pronouns ‘they/them’.

Hungary Helps, a humanitarian aid programme launched by the Hungarian government in 2017, has recently funded the construction of a new church at the site of Jesus Christ’s baptism by the Jordan River in Jordan. Hungary Helps focuses on oppressed Christians in the Middle East.

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó of Hungary shared a Facebook post about his phone conversation with Minister of Mining and Energy Dubravka Đedović of Serbia. In it, he wrote that cooperation with neighbouring countries on energy policy is crucial in these times; and announced that the two countries have agreed to accelerate their joint energy security investments.

President Biden’s approval rating currently stands at 38.8 per cent in the RealClearPolitics polling aggregate, and at just 36.1 per cent in the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregate. Meanwhile, President Trump left office in January 2021—after the controversial Capitol riots—with a 41.1 per cent approval on RCP and a 38.6 per cent approval on 538.

The Hungarian Police has apprehended three foreign men and a Hungarian woman who ran a series of international online scams. They set up fake accounts on dating apps and websites, and targeted wealthy middle-aged to elderly women to swindle money out of them.

At the 67th annual M4 Sport Athlete of the Year Gala, Olympic gold medalist swimmer Hubert Kós won Best Male Athlete of the Year, Olympic gold medalist pentathlonist Michelle Gulyás won Best Female Athlete of the Year; while the Best Team of the Year award was given to the Women’s Handball National Team, which came in third at the European Championship in December.

The United States has long given up any intent for territorial expansion. Incoming President Donald Trump, however, is bringing the spirit of ‘Manifest Destiny’ back to the White House, and is already making progress on making the acquisition of Greenland a reality.

In a by-election called to fill the seat of deceased MP Árpád János Pótápi in the 2nd electoral district of Tolna County, Fidesz-KDNP’s candidate Dr Krisztina Csibi won by 44.5 points. Three years prior, in 2022, Fidesz’s nominee won by ‘only’ 35.4 points. Péter Magyar’s Tisza Party did not even field a candidate, with Magyar dismissing the election as irrelevant.

Researchers at the University of Szeged’s Albert Szent-Györgyi Medical School are pioneering the development of technologies for the diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases. Among other projects they are working on a new, portable respiratory function measuring device, also suitable for home use, for the diagnosis of respiratory diseases.

Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy defended Elon Musk at a press conference in Rome yesterday, asking the reporters: ‘Is the problem that he is rich and influential, or that he’s not left-wing?’ She also said she believes Musk is no threat to democracy, George Soros is.

24 armed men attacked the Presidential Palace in N’Djamena, Chad yesterday, 8 January, but the attack was thankfully thwarted. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary commented on the incident on his X page. Hungary has had a strategic partnership with the African nation of Chad since September 2024.

In a bizarre Facebook post, György Raskó, an operative of the Hungarian opposition Tisza Party, argued that Europe needs a war to do away with right-wing populism for good. The post was a reaction to the right-wing populist FPÖ party now being close to forming a government in Austria.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that it will cease working with third-party fact-checking services on its social media sites Facebook, Instagram, and Threads. Instead, it will rely on user-submitted ‘community notes,’ popularized on major Trump supporter Elon Musk’s X.

Companies in the hospitality industry can now apply to the Hungarian Tourism Agency’s Priority Partners programme, organized by Visit Hungary. Successful applicants will receive valuable perks, such as a 50 per cent discount on the application fee for tourism sales programmes run by Visit Hungary; and participation in B2B activities such as webinars, roadshows, and workshops. Applications are open until 27 January.

Antal Rogán, the Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister of Hungary, has been placed on the US Treasury Department’s sanctions list, in the last two weeks of the incumbent Biden administration. US–Hungary relations have severely soured under President Biden.

A video shared by American journalist Colin Rugg on X has gone viral, showing a stray being the first to rush across the Hungarian-Romanian border at an event celebrating the full incorporation of Romania into the Schengen Area on 1 January 2025. Romania and Bulgaria became the full members of the Schengen Area under the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU.