Paphos attracts foreign TV productions, including Hungary’s ‘Love island’
A SWEDISH TV show will be filmed in various areas of Paphos over the coming months, according to the Paphos regional board of tourism. “We...
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Four bodies found as salvage crews lift capsized Hungarian boat
Salvage crews recovered four bodies on Tuesday as they slowly lifted the wreck of a boat two weeks after it capsized on the Danube River...
Eight killed, 21 still missing after boat capsizes on Danube (update)
Prospects were minimal on Thursday for finding 21 people missing from a group of South Korean visitors aboard a pleasure boat that capsized on the...
Opposition lawmakers ejected from Hungary state TV after protest
Security guards ejected two independent lawmakers from Hungary’s state television building after they tried to read out a petition on Monday, a day after police...
‘All I want for Christmas is democracy,’ say Hungary protesters
Thousands of Hungarians thronged the streets of Budapest on Sunday in the fourth and largest protest in a week against what they see as the...
Hungary to stop financing gender studies courses
Hungary’s government will stop financing gender studies university courses, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff said on Tuesday, marking one of the first concrete...
‘Communist’ Frida Kahlo swept up in debate in Hungary
Sixty-four years after her death, the personal life and politics of Frida Kahlo have come under scrutiny in Hungary. A right-wing pro-government newspaper has criticised...
EU raps Hungary over migration law
The European Commission on Thursday stepped up a legal battle with Hungary over EU migration rules and denounced as illegal its “Stop Soros” law that criminalises support...
Hungary to quit UN migration pact shunned by Washington
Hungary will quit a UN migration pact before its final approval, it said on Wednesday, calling the agreement a “threat to the world”. The Global...
Four jailed for 25 years in Austria migrant death truck case
Four people smugglers were jailed for 25 years on Thursday for the deaths of 71 men, women and children whose decomposing bodies were found crammed...
Hungary to penalise NGOs that aid illegal immigrants
Hungary’s government will submit a new version of its “Stop Soros” bill to parliament on Tuesday, imposing criminal penalties on groups accused of supporting or...
Booming economy, anti-migrant stance help Orban
Doctor Rozalia Gorbe is not a fan of Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban but she understands why voters have turned in large numbers to his...
Soros foundation to shut its office in ‘repressive’ Hungary
Billionaire George Soros’s pro-democracy foundation said on Tuesday it would shut its office in Budapest and move to Berlin, leaving what it called “an increasingly...
Hungary rejects ‘blackmail’ over EU funds
Hungary responded angrily on Thursday after the European Commission proposed cutting development funds to countries deemed to have undermined the rule of law, saying it...
EU sets out plan to battle rising nationalism in the East
The European Union will deploy a new financial weapon next week to try to rein in what Brussels sees as illiberal nationalism rising in the...
Orban says no to ‘United States of Europe’
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Tuesday his landslide re-election had given him a powerful mandate to restrict migrant rights and seek a European...
From liberal hero to right-wing icon, Orban’s appeal trumps rivals
An anti-Communist hero to many, Hungary’s longest-serving prime minister Viktor Orban has veered far from his formative liberal views to become a staunch opponent of...
Hungary’s strongman Viktor Orban wins third term in power
Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a third straight term in power in Sunday elections after his anti-immigration campaign message secured a strong majority for his...
Hungary sentences Syrian-Cypriot to seven years for border riot
A Hungarian court sentenced a Syrian-Cypriot man to seven years in prison for illegally crossing the border and for being an accomplice in “an act...
Facebook removes, then restores anti-immigrant video in Hungary
Facebook on Wednesday reversed a decision to take down a video posted by a Hungarian political aide that blamed crime on immigrants, saying it was...