Hungary’s industrial production declined for an 11th month while retail sales jumped at the start of the year, blurring the pace of economic recovery from a recession.

The country does not have to tolerate Pride marching through downtown Budapest,” Orban’s chief of staff, Gergely Gulyas, said at a Thursday news briefing.

Hungary is facing the latest in a series of missed budget targets after the announcement of pre-election tax breaks by Prime Minister Viktor Orban last weekend.

The EU Court of Justice should rule in favour of Austria in its appeal against the European Commission's decision to approve Hungary's state aid for the expansion of its Paks atomic plant, the court's adviser said on Thursday.

A unanimous Supreme Court dealt a blow to Holocaust survivors and their families in a lawsuit seeking compensation from Hungary for confiscated property.

Hungary plans to impose profit curbs to contain soaring food prices that led to a resurgence of inflation a year before crucial elections.

Former Hungarian finance minister Mihaly Varga took over as central bank governor on Tuesday, pledging an independent policy course amid a strong rebound in inflation and growing threats to economic growth.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, walks with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó to the Treaty Room at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, March 4, 2025. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce

Hungary has threatened to block the latest package of sanctions against Russia unless it receives guarantees on the resumption of gas supplies through Ukraine.

The survivors filed the lawsuit with the goal of pursuing a class action case against Hungary and its railway on behalf of all Hungarian Holocaust survivors and family members of

Regardless, I have a past that carried me from my hometown, Parkan, a small border town on the Danube River in the Czechoslovak Republic, to historic Williamsburg. My life is an open book. During my 45 years of punditry at The Virginia Gazette,