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Busójárás 2026 in Mohács is a Six Day Winter Festival in Hungary
From 12 to 17 February, the southern town of Mohács fills with people wearing hand-carved wooden masks and heavy sheepskins. Cowbells ring constantly. Fires burn along the Danube. More >>
Features
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OTP Cutting Nearly 200 Digital Jobs in Hungary
OTP is to reduce headcount in its Digital Division by almost 200 as part of a broader push to streamline operations and improve cost efficiency.
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Opposition Parties Sharply Criticise Orbán's State of Nation Speech
Opposition parties reacted to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's speech assessing the state of the nation over the past year.
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US Secretary of State Rubio Arrives in Budapest
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio arrived in Budapest on Sunday, where he was welcomed at Liszt Ferenc International Airport by Levente Magyar, parliamentary state secretary at the foreign ministry.
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UK Boarding School Showcase, Budapest, 26 February
For over 29 years, Metropolis Education has been guiding families towards the right UK boarding school. With connections to around 200 leading independent schools, they provide honest, expert advice to make the school search process smoother and more personal.
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Bomb Hoax Disrupts Huge Borjour Wine-Tasting in Budapest, Again
For the second consecutive year, the Budapest Convention Centre had to be evacuated due to a bomb alert while a wine-tasting event was held in the building on Saturday evening.
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Watch: A Documentary by Direct36 about Orbán’s 16 Years - with English Subtitles
Viktor Orbán was given a rare opportunity in 2010. He won a supermajority in parliament, giving him a strong mandate to put Hungary on a path to development. He also received external assistance for this. The global economy boomed in the 2010s, and Hungary received an unprecedented amount of funding from the European Union, on a scale unseen in over a century.
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Interviews
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Surprising Expats: Vincent Baumgartner - Photographer, Photographic Storyteller
This is part of a series of in-depth interviews with some of the most surprising members of the expat community in Hungary, written by Marion Merrick.
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UK Boarding School Showcase, Budapest, 26 February
For over 29 years, Metropolis Education has been guiding families towards the right UK boarding school. With connections to around 200 leading independent schools, they provide honest, expert advice to make the school search process smoother and more personal.
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Early Years Stay & Play Morning at BISB, 27 February
Join in to experience The British International School Budapest's play based teaching and learning provision in their purpose built Early Years centre. You can meet their academic leadership team, as well as the caring Early Years teaching staff.
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Dr. Rose Private Hospital Budapest Insight: Serving Up the New U.S. Dietary Guidelines
What’s striking is how far we’ve come from great-grandma’s kitchen, where “additives” basically meant salt and paprika. Today, more than 60% of the average American teenager’s daily calorie intake comes from ultra-processed foods containing more lab-designed ingredients than real nutrients.
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