Fidesz’ advantage over its opposition has decreased since the election, but the governing party still has a confident lead over its rivals, reports Telex on…
“It would take a great effort to find something true in what the Prime Minister said in his interview on Kossuth Rádió this morning,” stated…
The latest demonstration on Thursday in support of Hungary’s teachers and its educational system featured a 13-kilometer-long “human chain” in Budapest made up of thousands…
Opposition MPs prolonged debate in Parliament well past midnight on a social welfare law that began on 9:00am Wednesday morning, replacing each other from time…
Parliament voted on Monday to allow the state of emergency to be extended for up to 180 days starting November 1, but for an unlimited…
On Sunday, Hungary’s October 23 national holiday, the Democratic Trade Union of Teachers (PDSZ) and the ADOM Student Movement jointly organized an event in Budapest…
In a “guerilla act,” opposition party Momentum covered the Soviet monument in Budapest’s Freedom Square with a twenty-meter-long Hungarian flag. The monument is one of…
A guest on pro-government news station Hír TV on Tuesday evening was high school history teacher Gergely Czuczor, who also happens to be a Fidesz…
Hungary’s major teacher unions held another national strike on Friday, joined by students, parents, and many others, to protest the state of the country’s educational…
It’s no coincidence that Minister Gergely Gulyás announced a salary increase for public schoolteachers in Thursday’s Government Information briefing, considering that both the Teachers Union…
The Ministry of the Interior said it did not have any information on how or why a Russian website was used to measure the intellectual…
In a joint report titled “Half-Hearted Promises, Disappointing Delivery,” K-Monitor, the Hungarian Helsinki Committee, and Transparency International Hungary gave a negative assessment of the anti-corruption…
Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony posted a video on Facebook of himself and Deputy Mayor Ambrus Kiss meeting with striking garbage collectors early on Thursday morning.…
Hungarians held a day of support for the country’s teachers on Wednesday, including a nationwide strike, several kilometers of a “human chain,” the occupation of…
Four legislative changes required to comply with European Commision conditions to obtain EU funds easily passed Parliament on Tuesday, writes Népszava. But amendments proposed by…
Around 100 teachers, students, and parents gathered in front of Ferenc Kölcsey High School on Monday to deliver a statement by the school’s teachers and…
In a Facebook post on Sunday morning, István Ujhelyi somewhat unexpectedly announced he was leaving the Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP). Writing that “something is broken…
At least five teachers were fired, effective immediately, from Ferenc Kölcsey High School in Budapest’s District VI, writes Eduline. An article on the news site…
Civil rights group Patent Association and several other NGOs held a protest on September 28, International Safe Abortion Day, against the government’s newly-announced “heartbeat decree.”…
Although a month after the elections Fidesz enjoyed the highest support of its party in the last three decades (46%, representing 3.7 million voters), it…