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Over 15,000 people gather in Budapest, Hungary, to protest against Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his government's conduct and alleged corruption relating to the ruling Fidesz party.
2025-06-10

Poland's Ministry of Foreign Affairs summons Hungary's ambassador to protest the Hungarian government's decision to grant asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who is wanted under the European Arrest Warrant for alleged corruption. Poland also recalls its ambassador to Hungary Sebastian Kęciek for consultations.
2024-12-20

A rally car veers off the road and crashes into a group of spectators during the Esztergom-Nyerges Rally between the towns of Lábatlan and Bajót in northwest Hungary, killing four people and injuring eight others.
2024-03-24

The Hungarian newspaper "Népszabadság" shuts down after 60 years amid significant financial losses.
2016-10-8

Thirteen are killed and 34 others injured after a bus carrying Erasmus exchange students returning from the renowned Falles fireworks festival in Valencia, crashes near Freginals, Spain. The regional government of Catalonia said in a statement that, "... according to the latest data, the ill-fated bus had students from Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland, Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Italy, Peru, Bulgaria, Poland, Ireland, Japan, Ukraine, Holland, Belgium, France, Palestine, Turkey, (and) Greece."
2016-03-20

Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann, when discussing management of the flow of migrants with the press, talks about "technical security" measures but insists there will be "no fence" at the Slovenian border. This, in contrast to Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner who earlier spoke of plans for a "fence" on the border to Slovenia. Austria has been one of the more vocal countries criticizing Hungary's decision to build a fence along its border with Serbia.
2015-10-28

Hungary makes a fifth arrest in relation to the death of seventy-one migrants in a truck in Austria.
2015-08-30

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, winner of the 2010 parliamentary elections in Hungary, assumes office.
2010-05-29

The centre-right Hungarian Civic Union (Fidesz) wins all 119 individual seats in the first round of Hungary's parliamentary elections. Their total of 206 seats gives them an outright majority in the National Assembly, with 121 seats still in play in the second round on April 25.
2010-04-12

Centre-right Fidesz wins majority of parliamentary seats in the first round of the Hungarian general elections.
2010-04-11