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Hungary has just been through its biggest political change in sixteen years, and most news from there is about what follows — from the rebuilding of public service media to fights over the constitution. Two themes are permanent regardless of who governs: the Paks nuclear plant, which covers a substantial share of Hungarian electricity and whose outages are a national event, and the Danube, whose low water in dry years threatens even the cooling of that plant.
Context verified 30. 8. 2026. We update it when the government changes or an election comes — the news below is live.
Two proceedings for false reporting in one day. Neither has new evidence — what changed is the government. The same filing was previously rejected.
Hungary continues dispute over National Office for Asset Recovery and Protection led by political scientist Anna Róza Ungerová. Her election sparked criticism, prote…
Budapest government ordered two extraordinary investigations into energy sector. It specifically asks whether it was warned about low Danube risks in previous years.
The liquidation of sixteen public benefit foundations was completed on August 31. The government speaks of removing an obstacle before EU funds, the Commission respo…
The management of Hungary's public media says an external adviser without any formal position in the hierarchy ran it for years. He earned more than the CEO.
Hungary continues to see controversy surrounding the Nemzeti Vagyonvisszaszerzési és Vagyonvédelmi Hivatal, an office for asset recovery and protection, whose new...
A JAS-39 Gripen fighter jet of the Hungarian armed forces crashed for unknown reasons near the Hungarian city of Szolnok on Monday, August 24. The pilot managed to e…
Hungarian parliamentary Committee for Justice and Constitutional Affairs on Thursday proposed political scientist Anna Róza Ungerová for chairwoman of the National O…
Hungarian prose writer and perennial Nobel Prize candidate died Wednesday at age 83. He abandoned journalism after the occupation of Czechoslovakia and went into iso…
Tünde Handó resigned as judge effective October 14; she remains a constitutional judge until 2032. András Baka warned about the office she led in 2011.
The Fidesz parliamentary group is not taking part in the nomination and selection of the leadership of Hungary’s National Asset Recovery and Protection Office.
A Hungarian JAS-39 Gripen fighter jet crashed near Szolnok on Monday, August 24, for reasons still unknown. The pilot ejected in time.
