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.

Elon Musk asked his 216 million followers on X if his new DOGE agency should ‘audit the IRS’, the US government agency tasked with collecting tax revenue from US residents. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority voted yes, and Musk seems to take ‘the voice of the people’ seriously, as he demonstrated with the unbanning of Donald Trump on his platform back in November 2022.

László Varju was convicted of trying to bribe an independent candidate into dropping out to boost his own electoral chances in 2018. He resigned from the Hungarian parliament after his conviction. However, he is also running to fill his own vacant seat in the by-election in March.

‘30 years ago Poland, Hungary and [the] Czech Republic were perceived as dangerous. Today Warsaw, Budapest and Prague are much safer than Paris, Barcelona or Brussels. What happened?’ user Michael A Arouet asked on the social media platform X, to which he has received thousands of likes and hundreds of comments.

In this piece, I, the author, argue that UEFA should do away with the new Swiss system league phase for the Champions League. Instead, they should replace it with four groups of nine teams, which would play each other once in the group stage, with four advancing from each group to the Round of 16 in the end.

After two consecutive quarters of contraction, Hungary’s gross domestic product grew by 0.5 per cent in the last quarter of 2024. Compared to the data from a year ago, the growth was 0.4 per cent, better than originally expected by analysts.

A recent poll by Quinnipiac has found that only 31 per cent of Americans have a favourable view of the Democratic Party, while 56 per cent have an unfavourable view, giving the party an abysmal net favourability rating of negative 26 points. Quinnipiac is a polling firm that has been overestimating liberals in the past.

In an eventful game, Ferencváros ended up beating the Dutch side AZ Alkmaar 4–3, and thus made it out of the UEFA Europa League’s first-ever league phase, finishing 17th out of 36. They will face the Czech Viktoria Plzen in the first knock-out round.

CPAC Hungary 2025 will be taking place 29–30 May this year, Director General Miklós Szánthó for the Center for Fundamental Rights has announced at a press conference with American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp.

The Joint Action on REspiratory Diseases (JARED) initiative by the EU was launched in December 2024, with support from 14 Member States. The Korányi Institute of Pulmonology in Budakeszi, Hungary is the leading institution of the project. The initiative’s kick-off event was held in Budapest on 29 January 2025.

The Political Director of the Hungarian Prime Minister spoke at the 35th anniversary event for the Hungarian history periodical Rubicon. He discussed the end of the unipolar world order dominated by the United States, the EU in the new world oder and the new Trump administration’s novel approach to geopolitics.

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’.