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. This part will be about a recidivist conman, George Robert Gabor, who has been deported from the country several times and even sentenced to prison.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán dismissed allegations of paedophilia linked to a correctional facility in Szőlő Street as a foreign-backed disinformation campaign, while warning of legal consequences and defending his government’s policies on energy, taxes, and family support.
What is Israel planning to do after the Western recognition of Palestine? Will there be a point when Washington doesn’t back Israel further? Why has the Hungarian government become a pro-Israeli government? We spoke with the former Political Director of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the fragile situation of the Jewish state at the Danube Institute’s Geopolitical Summit in Budapest.
The deaths of seven AfD candidates before North Rhine–Westphalia’s local elections stirred controversy after economist Stefan Homburg called the cluster ‘statistically almost impossible’. Despite official findings of natural causes, AfD leader Alice Weidel echoed concerns—highlighting broader tensions around democratic pluralism in Germany.
A man has opened fire from a rooftop at an ICE facility in Dallas, Texas, killing one and injuring two. The perpetrator committed suicide at the scene with his gun. Information about the victim has not yet been released by local law enforcement.
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.
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.’