June 10, the Hungarian ruling party, Fidesz, introduced an amendment that would severely restrict freedom of speech and children’s rights by banning LGBTQI-themed educational programs and public service advertisements. Out of Hungarian LGBTQI people, 42% have thought about suicide and 30% have attempted it. This new amendment – which eerily mimics the Russian propaganda law – would further […]

The government is allocating 200 billion forints (EUR 574.1m) to funding the digital and technological development of micro, small and mid-size enterprises, a state secretary of the innovation and technology ministry said.

Human Resources Minister Miklós Kásler and Zsolt Nyitrai, the prime minister’s commissioner for key welfare issues, greeted Hungary’s district nurses in a video released on the occasion of District Nurses Day.

Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony presented 18 points of his 99 Movement programme. Karácsony, the prime ministerial candidate of the Párbeszéd, Socialist and LMP parties, said the first programme points contained measures that could be started immediately and implemented “relatively swiftly … to provide compensation for the past ten years”. The programme would scrap the section […]

Hungary’s National Agricultural Chamber (NAK) and farmers’ association Magosz have launched an online petition in support of Hungarian farmers and against Brussels’ “impossible demands” in connection with the EU’s farm policy overhaul, NAK said on Friday.