Sources: BBC Sky News
The Security Service of Ukraine arrests two people on suspicion of spying for Hungary in Zakarpattia Oblast, which is home to an ethnic minority of over 150,000 Hungarians. The Hungarian foreign ministry expels two Ukrainian diplomats in response to the allegations, characterizing them as anti-Hungarian. 2025-05-9
Hungary grants political asylum to former Polish deputy justice minister Marcin Romanowski, who faces allegations of corruption in Poland. 2024-12-19
Ukraine’s foreign ministry expresses opposition to a continuation of European Union import restrictions on its grain after member states including Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary supported an extension. 2023-08-26
Hungary, a member of the European Union, says that it will veto any sanctions that would restrict energy imports from Russia. Unanimity among the 27 EU members is required to introduce sanctions. 2022-05-1
Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission, warns Hungary to repeal its controversial amendments to its Child Protection Act, which bans the dissemination of content in schools deemed to "promote homosexuality", or else face "the full force of EU law". Poland is expected to block any attempt to impose the maximum EU penalty of suspending Hungary's voting rights. 2021-07-7
Hungarian businessman Lajos Simicska shuts down daily newspaper "Magyar Nemzet" after 80 years in print, and Lánchíd Rádió in response to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán winning a third consecutive parliamentary supermajority. Simicska was a former supporter of Orbán until he fell out with the Prime Minister in 2015. 2018-04-10
Hungarian prosecutors charge a woman who kicked refugees fleeing in Hungary with disorderly conduct. 2016-09-7
The government of Hungary announces it will hold a referendum regarding future European Union quotas for resettling refugees. The vote is expected to be held either in September or October of this year where a turnout of over 50 percent will render it to be valid. 2016-05-3
Three people are killed in a stampede at a three-storey nightclub in the Hungarian capital Budapest. 2011-01-16
Hungarian-born multibillionaire George Soros donates $1 million to the Drug Policy Alliance to fund California's Proposition 19 in the upcoming November 2, 2010 elections that would legalize marijuana in the state if passed. 2010-10-26