Presenting in one concise package the month’s most important and fascinating national stories, whether they be economic, political, cultural, sporting or among the hundreds of other happenings that go on[…]
Welcome to 2017, the 15th year of The Budapest Times. When we started in 2003 Brad Pitt was still married, but not to Angelina, to Jennifer Aniston. The Socialists and[…]
The Ministry of Human Resources, led by Zoltán Balog, added a new department in October: the Deputy State Secretariat for helping persecuted Christians. We discuss its concerns and objectives with[…]
Walter Goldenits, Chief Technology and IT Officer at Magyar Telekom, left Hungary at the end of December after spending four years here, in order to continue his career in the[…]
The poster on the körút flashing past the tram window seemed clear enough: “Dire Straits” coming to Budapest. Strange … they disbanded two decades ago and main man Mark Knopfler[…]
The Műcsarnok in Budapest celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2016. The creation and inauguration of the institution coincided with the flourishing of the Monarchy and Hungary. The new exhibition “The[…]
The mystical and lucrative world of author J.K. Rowling has entered a new dimension, with the film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” to be shown in Budapest accompanied by[…]
Tchaikovsky in “Onegin” is slowly setting himself up for the intense Arctic chill of his later work, “The Queen of Spades,” also inspired by Pushkin, which is even more darkly[…]
An exhibition featuring the most cutting-edge technologies, impressive images taken from unique perspectives and playful tests is now open. The “interactive experience-expo” titled The Champion welcomes visitors in pavilion D[…]
For me, wine falls in to the same category as music and art: I know what I like and what I don’t like. I have friends who delight in wine,[…]
Presenting in one concise package the week’s most important and fascinating national stories, whether they be economic, political, cultural, sporting or among the hundreds of other happenings that go on[…]
There are some lovely towns to discover around Hungary beyond Budapest, in any season. This week The Budapest Times visited Kecskemét, home town of Kodály and the horsemen of the[…]
Anglo-Hungarian author Gail Varga writes about the relevance of her new tragicomic novel “Wild Times with Granite” to everything from the fall-out after the US was Trumped by an almost[…]
Hungary can be expected to strengthen over the next five years, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has told a Hungarian Diaspora Council meeting. A mother country, if weak, is unable to[…]
After banning Hungarian diplomats from attending Romanian commemorations of the union of Transylvania with the Romanian Kingdom in 1918, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said that Hungarians have nothing to celebrate[…]
Several dozen types of Hungarian craft beer accompanied by black pudding, haggis, meat pâté and other specialities from the British Isles await visitors in Budapest’s first “Steampunk” pub, the Krak’n[…]
A little bit of stress is good for us. It gives us energy, keeps us safe and makes us aware of what is going on in our lives. While stress[…]
“La bohème” is one of the ultimate Christmas productions of any opera house. As well as being seasonal and beautiful, it is guaranteed to sell the house and there is[…]
