The Brutalist, the film about a Jewish Hungarian artist who flees to the US from the Holocaust, did not win Best Picture at the 2025 Oscars, as most Hungarian people most likely would have liked to see. Instead, Anora, a film about a Russian American stripper was awarded in the category. However, Adrien Brody playing the Hungarian protagonist in The Brutalist won the Best Actor award.
Head of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyás of Hungary stated at the Károli Open University event that he is certain US President Donald Trump will visit Hungary at some point in his second term. If he does so, he will become the fourth incumbent POTUS to come to our country.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine travelled to Washington, DC to sign the agreement that would create a co-owned fund between the US and Ukraine that would manage Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. However, the meeting came to a premature end, as President Trump asked Zelenskyy to leave after a tense discussion in front of the media, cancelling their scheduled lunch and joint press conference.
At the Peace Through Strength conferences hosted by the Center for Fundamental Rights in Budapest, the distinguished guests discussed the new geopolitical realities brought on by the second Trump administration. They have put a special emphasis on the Hamas–Israeli war, and the attacks on the religious freedom of Jews and Christians alike around the world.
The Danube Institute hosted an event dedicated to free speech in the UK and Brexit titled ‘Renewing UK Politics: Conservative Challenges and the Road to Prosperity’. The panel featured Senior Researcher Guy Dampier and Managing Director Dr Radomir Tylecote from the London-based conservative think tank Prosperity Institute, as well as Visiting Fellow Doug Stokes from the Danube Institute.
Multiple news outlets were able to demonstrate that, as of late February 2025, if a user said the word ‘racist’ to Apple’s voice note feature, it often first transcribed it as ‘Trump’ before correcting itself to the actual word. Apple has responded to the controversy, saying they are aware of the issue and fixing the bug.
The European Network Remembrance and Solidarity (ENRS) is soliciting submissions for their ‘Grandparents. Grand Stories. The Closest Stories from the Second World War’ contest. They are looking to hear first-hand accounts from WWII, passed down from older generations to the young within the family. The deadline is 15 March.
Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó has given a speech at the United Nations’ Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland. In it, he pointed out that Hungary has been saying for the last three years that only a Russian–American agreement can bring peace to Europe again, which is exactly what is happening now; and called on ‘pro-war leaders’ of the world not to obstruct the peace talks with Moscow.
Donald Trump likely would not have made it through the Republican primaries had he run in 2012. In 2016, however, he was the only candidate to reject the new absurd language norms imposed by the woke movement and the only candidate to actually speak up against illegal immigration. Since then, he has defied the common wisdom of American intelligentsia and media in multiple ways.
Bryan Leib has praised Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary’s newly announced policy of giving income tax exemptions to mothers of two or more children. He has also suggested that the United States should implement a similar policy and even tagged Elon Musk in his reply.
Liverpool, with Hungary National Team Captain Dominik Szoboszlai in their starting line-up, beat defending champions Manchester City 2–0 away from home, thus increasing their lead on the table to 11 points over Arsenal. Szoboszlai, who scored a goal and gave an assist in the crucial game, is getting closer to becoming the first Hungarian player to win the English Premier League trophy.
Political Director for the Prime Minister of Hungary Balázs Orbán has appeared on the show Mornings with Maria hosted by Maria Bartiromo, where he shared his optimism about the recently started diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Russia regarding the potential end to the Russo–Ukrainian war.
Reigning Hungarian champions Ferencváros won the first leg of their tie against Viktoria Plzeň 1–0 at home. However, they lost the rematch 3–0 on the road, thus it was the Czech side Plzeň who got to qualify to the Round of 16 of the UEFA Europa League.
According to a recent poll by CBS News, 2 percentage points more people identify as Republican in the United States than Democrat. By comparison, when President Trump was starting his first term in 2017, Democrats had a five-point edge over the GOP in the same survey.
According to recently released data by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), 29 per cent fewer new apartments were built in Hungary in 2024 than in the year prior. The total number of new apartments built was 13,295 in the country last year.
The first two of the ten episodes of the new historical drama series Rise of the Raven will air on TV2 at 8pm on 8 March. The show centres around John Hunyadi, a military leader and statesman in the Kingdom of Hungary in the 15th century, who was a key figure in fighting back against the Ottoman invasion of Europe.
The Israeli head of state met with both Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and President Tamás Sulyok of Hungary; and visited the famous Holocaust monument on the bank of the Danube river in Budapest as well. He also thanked Hungary for its continuous support to his nation since the 7 October attacks.
President Trump and DOGE head Elon Musk have sat down for an exclusive interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, which aired on 18 February. The two powerful men touched on a wide array of important issues, but mostly focused on their efforts to cut $1 trillion in government spending in the US.
State Secretary for International Communication Zoltán Kovács of Hungary has responded to the chief advisor of city diplomacy for the Mayor of Budapest Dávid Korányi, who has claimed in an article for Time Magazine that President Trump’s freezing of USAID funding to foreign countries ‘threatens global democracy’.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó of Hungary has met with President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev Deputy Prime Minister Murat Nurtileu of Kazakhstan in Astana, Kazakhstan. This is the third of a series of high-level diplomatic meetings between the two nations.
For Presidents Day 2025, here is our website’s subjective ranking of the top 10 best and bottom 10 worst Presidents to serve as Commander-in-Chief of the United States.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary has sat down with famed American political commentator Tucker Carlson for an interview again, this time in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They have covered a wide array of important topics, such as the influence of the previous US administration on Hungarian politics, the state of the European economy, and most prominently, the potential end of the Russo–Ukrainian war.
Senior Fellow at the Center for Fundamental Rights and top contender to be the next US Ambassador to Hungary Bryan Leib has recently been interviewed by the Hungarian state television M1. In the interview, he covered a wide array of important topics, such as a potential ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia with Hungarian involvement, illegal immigration, and more.
Before the resolution got passed by the City Council in Worcester, Massachusetts, a trans activist speaking in favour seemed to make a threat, saying: ‘If you say that you’re afraid of Trump and that’s why you don’t want the city to be a safe space for trans people, you’d better prepare for trans people to make this a very unsafe space.’
Only 39 per cent of Americans have a favourable view of President Joe Biden, while 57 per cent have an unfavourable view of him, according to a new poll by Gallup. His net favourability rating of negative 28 points is by far the worst among the five living Presidents, a whopping 26 points below the second least popular of them, Donald Trump.
Elon Musk has posted on X that the American Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was caught funnelling $59 million to hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants, while it was not able to help victims of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina in late 2024. Four FEMA employees, including CFP Mary Comans, have been terminated as a result of the scandal.
According to her lawyer, the 43-year-old victim has contacted the Japanese Embassy in Budapest as well, claiming that her abusive ex-husband had taken her passport, but, tragically, the Embassy did not do anything to help her either.
The Budapest-based Committee of National Remembrance (NEB) and the Krakow-based Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) held a joint event in Budapest, Hungary on 7 February to commemorate and recant the brutal atrocities committed by the Red Soviet Army during World War II in the two Eastern European countries.
The violent far-left group Antifa attacked the perceived attendees of the commemoration of the siege of Buda two years ago on 10 February 2023. In order to prevent another incident like that from taking place, there will be an increased police presence in Budapest between 6 February and 12 February.
The same author for Vox published the same article comparing President Trump’s ‘authoritarian’ ways of governing to that of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán back in 2018, and another piece about the parallels between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and PM Orbán in 2022. Just last July we reviewed an oddly similar piece by The Atlantic as well.