Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will attend the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday at St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican. Orbán had a special relationship with the late pope, having met him on several occasions, most recently last December during his second peace mission to help end the war in Ukraine.
Football Forum Hungary 2025, the event featuring illustrious speakers from the world of football to talk about the sport from a business, science, and legal aspect, will be taking place at the Groupama Arena in Budapest, Hungary, on 29 April this year.
Polish PM Donald Tusk has been caught spreading disinformation on X, misleadingly portraying a recent speech by Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán as evidence that he is contemplating Hungary’s exit from the European Union. In doing so, Tusk appeared to be attempting to discredit the right-wing opposition PiS party—which maintains close ties with Orbán—just weeks ahead of the presidential election in May.
‘There has been an extraordinarily noticeable and palpable shift in the political culture and discourse in the United States over the past two decades…And the absolute most crucial thing the Democratic Party wants you to believe is that, above all else, being a Democrat is the only acceptable thing to be in America.’
‘We are looking for companies capable of manufacturing humanoid robots,’ Hungarian Government Commissioner for Artificial Intelligence László Palkovics stated in an interview with Index. He recently visited Israel, where he met with many firms in the technology sector—meetings that, he said, could lead to partnerships elevating Hungary into the elite ranks of high-tech production.
‘Children are the guarantees of the survival of the Hungarian nation, they will follow in our footsteps, they will continue our work, and hopefully they will correct our mistakes,’ President Tamás Sulyok of Hungary said at a conference on child protection held by the Csongrád-Csanád County Government Office in Szeged, Hungary.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed in an X post that the report by POLITICO claiming that he and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff were debating lifting sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline is ‘unequivocally false’ and ‘if POLITICO has an ounce of integrity they will fully retract this piece of fiction.’
The Democratic Party of Korea is reportedly exploring ways to incorporate incentives similar to the Hungarian approach on family policy into its finalized policy package ahead of the presidential elections in June. South Korea is among the countries most severely affected by demographic decline—a crisis already having negative impacts across multiple sectors.
According to the Budapest Business Journal, MÁV had 50,000 employees on their payroll across two entities, making them the largest employer in the country. Among non-state-owned companies, the building cleaning and facility management firm B+N Referencia Zrt has the most workers, 14,217.
Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of US President Donald Trump, is reportedly travelling to Hungary to kick off a regional business trip. The Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization is scheduled to meet Gellért Jászai of Hungarian telecommunications giant 4iG on Friday.
‘This forum, which is scheduled for 6 May 2025, will be a major opportunity for anyone who can make it to learn from and consult with significant Hungarian figures from the public and private sectors.’
Penalties related to Hungary’s dispute with the European Commission over migration policy exceeded €500 million by mid-April. Following a verdict by the European Court of Justice, Hungary is obliged to pay €1 million per day—among other fines—until it implements legislation in compliance with EU law.
Center for Fundamental Rights Fellow Bryan Leib has recently given an interview to the Hungarian public television, in which he urged the Hungarian government to keep fighting the bureaucracy in Brussles, since ‘this big governmental body in Brussels is telling Viktor Orbán and the Hungarian people how to live their lives, what to spend their money on, and to accept migrants—it’s absurd!’
Interpol has refused to issue a red notice for former Polish Deputy Minister of Justice Marcin Romanowski, who is currently residing in Hungary after being granted political asylum in December 2024. The decision signals that the organization may view the prosecution against Romanowski as politically motivated.
Former New York Young Republican Club president and CPAC Hungary 2024 speaker Gavin Wax has been appointed as Chief of Staff to FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington in the US. Center for Fundamental Rights Director General Miklós Szánthó congratulated him on his new position in a Facebook post.
The draft family policy framework of US President Donald Trump’s administration has recently circulated in the media, with a $5,000 incentive for mothers—dubbed the ‘baby bonus’—stealing the spotlight. However, behind this lies a far more extensive and multi-layered approach, incorporating initiatives inspired by Hungary’s world-renowned and successful family policy model.
Dániel Böde, who currently plays for Paks, played his 500th game in the first division of the Hungarian football league against Puskás Akadémia on Saturday. He also scored his 160th career league goal in the match.
‘Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó and his Moroccan counterpart, Nasser Bourita, held a joint press conference in Budapest in the middle of April…The negotiations between the two ministers ended with agreements on strengthening trade, investment, research, innovation and energy cooperation between the two countries.’
‘Emerged from a near-fatal shooting, exasperated with liberal anti-democratic excesses, and emboldened by a new sheriff in Washington, Fico and allies have brought their battle against NGOs to parliament.’
‘In the House Museum of Terror, the fallen, vilely slaughtered by two forms of violence that may seem opposite but which have made oppression a shared tool, are remembered without distinction.’
US President Donald Trump was among the first world leaders to announce that he will attend the funeral of the late Pope Francis on Saturday. Russian President Vladimir Putin, however, will not be present, and despite his close relationship with the pontiff, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will also skip the ceremony.
‘Going on a media blitz for an illegal alien with likely gang ties is not the best idea for Democrats, as common sense would suggest…However, Democrats do have to move fast on the issue. The 2030 census is fast approaching, and if Republicans manage to retain the White House, they will be in control of the US Census Bureau, conducting it.’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed the risks posed by Ukraine’s EU membership to Europe with President of the Austrian National Council Walter Rosenkranz during their meeting in Budapest. During his visit, Rosenkranz also met with Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly László Kövér, highlighting the close ties between the two countries’ legislatures.
‘Certain forces, possibly linked to Brussels, might attempt to interfere with the democratic voice of the Polish nation,’ warned Law and Justice (PiS) lawmaker Janusz Kowalski in an interview with Hungarian Conservative. In the conversation, Kowalski discussed the prospects ahead of the upcoming presidential election in Poland and also addressed the current state of Polish–Hungarian relations.
The Institute of Hungarian Research (Magyarságkutató Intézet) has announced that they have found what is very likely to be the skeletal remains of King Matthias Corvinus, one of the best-known and most influential monarchs in Hungarian history who ruled in the 15th century.
‘Albeit the Tineke Strik-led delegation was supposed to establish “facts” about the state of the Hungarian democracy and rule of law during their time in Budapest, Strik had her mind made up about these matters long before arriving in Hungary.’
Pope Francis died on 21 April, Easter Monday, following a worsening condition due to serious respiratory illnesses in recent years. As the sede vacante period begins, the College of Cardinals is set to elect his successor, with Cardinal Péter Erdő reportedly among the possible candidates.
‘My parents attended the local Hungarian Reformed church, and I began attending as well. I saw how much these people needed spiritual life. They went to church out of habit and followed traditions, but they lacked true spiritual vitality. That’s when I became a Hungarian Reformed pastor. I realized that my mission was right here—I didn’t need to go any farther.’
‘We must resist the anthropology that reduces our humanity to a commodity of flesh, an anthropology that hollows out our interiority, an ontology that will not permit that interiority to have any substantial existence. Our task is not to preserve or defend the West. If Camus is right, we are way past that point. Our task is to decolonize the West.’
With Easter, the fasting restrictions came to an end, and the arrival of spring weather meant people could once again play and celebrate outdoors. Our ancestors took full advantage of this: on Easter Monday at dawn, they would already be making their rounds through the village, and they spent as much time outside as possible, playing games like egg rolling and others.