Visa has launched its Digital Payments Programme in Hungary to help micro and small businesses adopt online payments and boost competitiveness in e-commerce, offering six months of free card acceptance and a range of digital solutions.
Ferenc Sajdik, iconic Hungarian cartoonist behind Pom Pom meséi and A nagy ho-ho-horgász, has died at 95. Born in Germany to Hungarian parents, he discovered his passion for caricature while training as a printing press operator. Over his career, he illustrated 300 books and received Hungary’s Kossuth Prize.
The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has given cover to Péter Magyar, Ilaria Salis, and Klára Dobrev, refusing to lift their immunity despite ongoing Hungarian cases. Orbán blasted the move as ‘shame and disgrace’, calling Magyar ‘Brussels’ man’.
Scientists have created the largest virtual universe to date, containing 3.4 billion simulated galaxies. The model, built for ESA’s Euclid mission, will help unravel the mysteries of dark matter, dark energy, and the large-scale structure of the cosmos.
Ukrainian-born content creator Anna Malygon, known online as maligoshik, turned her country’s suffering into a brand—mixing war-torn backdrops with TikTok and OnlyFans promotion. The 22-year-old lives in a Los Angeles ‘castle’ with a butler, Porsche, and millions in earnings, symbolizing how victimhood has become a commodity while her compatriots still face bombs and suffering.
At Brain Bar 2025, Hungarian Conservative sat down with Rafe Fletcher, founder of Coulthwaite Group, to discuss his unconventional journey from UK sports journalism to leading marketing and communications in Singapore—where he now focuses on governance, efficiency, and fostering societal responsibility.
At an event at MCC Budapest, French author Xavier-Laurent Salvador spoke about the French academic publisher suspending the publication of his book Face à l’obscurantisme woke (In the Face of Woke Obscurantism). Rodrigo Ballester and Leonardo Orlando joined the discussion about the problems with progressivism in European academia.
At Brain Bar 2025, anthropologist Dimitris Xygalatas spoke with Hungarian Conservative about why rituals—from birthdays to firewalking—are far from meaningless. In an increasingly digital world, he explains, these embodied acts foster comfort, bonding, and identity, and remain essential to the human experience.
The Yangwang U9 Xtreme has set a new world record as the fastest production car, hitting 308.4 mph in Germany. The electric hypercar eclipses the Bugatti Chiron Super Sport 300+ and redefines the limits of road-legal speed.
Western civilization is at risk of repeating Rome’s fate, argues Iain McGilchrist. Speaking to Hungarian Conservative at Brain Bar 2025, the renowned psychiatrist warned that dominance of the left hemisphere produces power obsession, woke intolerance, and technological servitude. Only a revival of wisdom, culture, and community can restore balance.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Hungary could soon classify Antifa as a terrorist organization, echoing a similar initiative by US President Donald Trump. Orbán recalled violent attacks in Budapest in 2023, when Italian MEP Ilaria Salis joined Antifa groups targeting people with a ‘right-wing appearance’, and stated that such movements must be treated like the Islamic State.
Former President János Áder discussed the everyday benefits of space research in his Blue Planet podcast, where astronaut Tibor Kapu described the Hunor Hungarian Astronaut Programme as the beginning of something much bigger.
‘As someone with libertarian leanings and a true appreciation of free speech, am I wary of government overreach in the regulation of network television? Yes, of course I am. But do I believe that penalizing companies that use public airwaves to broadcast high-production shows which exclusively mock the opposition to the party they donate to constitutes such overreach? Absolutely not.’
Budapest’s Corvinus University has retained its spot on the QS global ranking of full-time MBA programmes, placing 54th in Europe and within the 151–200 range worldwide. It remains the only Hungarian institution included in the prestigious list.
At Brain Bar 2025, Balázs Hankó and Péter Palasics debated whether tradition or innovation should guide Hungarian higher education, the real value of a diploma, and how universities can compete internationally while nurturing talent at home.
Do the Palestinians have a right to form a state? If a one-state solution were implemented, what would happen to the Palestinian population? Why is compromise impossible with Hamas and the Palestinian Authority? We asked the head of the Shomron Regional Council—the de facto leader of the Jewish settlers in Judea and Samaria—about the fading prospects of the two-state solution.
At Brain Bar 2025, Katalin Erdei of Richter Gedeon, school psychologist Virág Varga, and Benedictine monk Izsák Baán discussed why loneliness is rising in modern life, and how different communities can help turn isolation into true belonging.
Budapest’s Keleti Railway Station has reopened after technical delays, gradually resuming traffic. Suburban and regional trains are running from Sunday afternoon, while full operations will restart on Monday morning, MÁV’s CEO announced.
‘When…one of Louis Armstrong’s most brilliant musical partners, or as she was referred to overseas, the “First Lady of Song”, Ella Fitzgerald, visited Budapest for the first time on a leap day, 29 February 1968, the traffic chaos did not repeat itself, but people were hanging even from the chandeliers at the concert held at the Erkel Theatre.’
‘Well-documented 18th-century operations shed light on and explain many aspects of the secret of the Hungarian army’s successes in the 10th century: even with limited numbers, a well-organized team can achieve significant success in enemy territory against a numerically superior opponent.’
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán of Hungary has held a rally for his new Digital Civic Circles (DPK) initiative in Budapest, drawing 11,000 supporters. Positioning DPK as a tool to convert offline strength into online visibility, Orbán framed the movement as a fight for Hungary’s sovereignty against Brussels, social liberalism, and migration, while celebrating Fidesz’s enduring dominance.
In its ‘Beyond the Óperencia’ series, Magyar Krónika is looking at the meeting points of America and Hungary, and at Hungarians in America, from penniless peasants to political emigrants and soldiers of fortune. In this part, let us continue the story of Joseph Pulitzer, who published a series of exposés on dubious transactions surrounding the Panama Canal, for which the federal government sued him.
Bishop Péter Vay was on board the steamship Carpathia when the survivors of the Titanic were rescued.
‘The fact is that Sweden faces a serious problem with extremely violent crime, and children are drawn into it both as victims and perpetrators. Regardless of the exact figures, the collective media and political reaction to Orbán’s fundamentally reasonable criticism looks like dressing up a pig.’
‘Residents, businesses, and even foreign visitors were catalogued, assessed, and placed under surveillance based on their perceived political reliability. This extensive, decades-long system reflects the regime’s pervasive fear of dissent and its determination to control both people and urban spaces.’
‘The Votin family joined the Hungarian community, motivated by learning the Hungarian language and scouting experiences to be provided for their children. The school…was closely linked to the St. Stephen’s Church. The last Franciscan friar, Father Domonkos Csorba, strongly supported them—he kept tuition low and mediated conflicts between the English-speaking and Hungarian-speaking members.’
The founding of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences marked the beginning of one of the most inspiring chapters in our national history—the Reform Era. The Hungarian National Museum’s new exhibition, Magic Power — Knowledge. Community. Academy., is rooted in this period, yet it presents the past in a way that gives the greatest weight to the future.
Ukraine’s security service has blocked 15 outlets from Hungary, Romania, Moldova, and Greece—including Hungary’s Origo and Demokrata—accusing them of spreading Russian propaganda. Demokrata editor-in-chief András Bencsik slammed the move as proof Ukraine has become a ‘rotten, corrupt dictatorship’ that tramples free speech.
Singapore-based Vulcan Shield Global will build its first European plant in Békéscsaba, a 280 billion HUF investment creating 2,500 jobs by 2033. Local leaders hailed the project as the biggest in the county’s history, while the Hungarian government pledged 49 billion HUF support for the high-tech factory.
Hundreds gathered at the US Embassy in Budapest on Thursday night to honour assassinated US conservative activist Charlie Kirk. At the candlelit vigil, Zsolt Bayer, Miklós Szánthó, and László Molnár called his killing a strike against Judeo–Christian civilization, warning that Western culture must not be erased by far-left violence.