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With the 2026 parliamentary elections approaching, the annual Budapest Pride Parade seemed poised to become the next fight ...
Despite facial recognition cameras and the threat of steep fines, authorities in Hungary said they had declined to go after ...
Hungarian leader has been accused of favouring family and friends, but István Tiborcz insists he does not benefit ...
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets for Budapest Pride on Saturday in defiance of attempts by the government of ...
Around 100,000 people have marched in Budapest in Hungary's largest ever LGBTQ+ Pride event in defiance of a government ban.
When Viktor Orban’s right-wing government passed a bill to ban Pride events – the organisers of Budapest’s annual march ...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has accused Ukrainian authorities of beating a Hungarian-Ukrainian dual citizen to ...
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s party enacted the ban, but Budapest’s mayor allowed the event to go on. The police sat on the sidelines. By Andrew Higgins Reporting from Budapest A government ...
More than 100,000 people marched despite threats of fines and jail for attending the city’s banned LGBTQ Pride parade.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán speaks in Budapest after an election victory, April 6. Photo: attila kisbenedek/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images ...
For many populist-nationalist conservatives, Budapest is the new Rome, and Viktor Orbán is their political pope. In 2019, then-President Donald Trump met with Mr. Orbán in the Oval Office ...
Orbán’s big break came in the mid-1980s, with his acceptance to a new college in Budapest called István Bibó. But before he could go to the big city, the state mandated a stint in the military.