Several thousand people gathered on Kossuth Square in front of Parliament at 6:00pm on Wednesday to protest against changes to the KATA tax scheme for…
The Fidesz majority in Parliament passed a new law on Tuesday afternoon transforming a popular tax scheme for small-scale entrepreneurs to make it a much…
“I understand the protesters’ anger,” wrote Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony on the Tuesday demonstrations that shut down key parts of the capital over unfavorable changes…
Protests flared up in Budapest on Tuesday after a draft law was submitted to Parliament on Monday that would radically restrict the favorable KATA tax…
Despite the fact that it affects hundreds of thousands of taxpayers, a legal amendment that effectively ends the popular KATA tax regime is being rushed…
Krisztina Baranyi, the mayor of Budapest’s District IX, expressed her disappointment with the members of Hungary’s political opposition in an interview with hvg360. The results…
Government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi said at Thursday’s Government Information briefing that Hungary would have “the biggest fireworks display in Europe” on the August 20 national…
At the initiative of opposition party MSZP, parliamentary deputies from the democratic opposition submitted a petition to the Constitutional Court that proposed annuling the regulation…
In an interview with Mandiner, State Secretary for Health Péter Takács stated that the government had some scope to raise the salaries of health care…
The son of the governor of the Hungarian National Bank (MNB) has a diplomatic passport, reports investigative outlet Átlátszó. Back in May, the newspaper made…
More than two thousand young Hungarians between the ages of 13 and 25 took part in a representative poll conducted by UNICEF Hungary. The organization…
Parliament voted overwhelmingly, 136-23, for László Windisch as the new president of the State Audit Office (ÁSZ) on Monday. 11 MP votes were considered invalid.…
Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Márton Gyöngyösi was elected president of the Jobbik Movement for Hungary at a party congress held in Budapest on…
Water service was cut off in several towns in Pest County on nearly the same day as the start of the current heatwave. Several areas…
The National Media and Communications Authority’s Media Council, consisting exclusively of members appointed by ruling party Fidesz, ruled in February that it was against the…
The printed version of weekly Figyelő and daily newspaper Világgazdaság are being discontinued, writes hvg.hu, with their final editions to be published on Thursday. Rising…
“Parental rights need to be strengthened more with regard to protecting children,” the Ministry of Justice’s state secretary in Parliament said in an interview with…
“Hungary is not even willing to hold talks on a possible gas embargo,” said Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó prior to a…
In an online news conference held on Friday, opposition party Dialogue invited Hungarian President Katalin Novák to take part in one of the Budapest Pride…
After several days of calling Minister for Economic Development Márton Nagy an “idiot,” Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary went a step further by comparing Nagy and…