Europe Hungary Couples with three children can get up to HUF 110 million (around €305.000) in support, including soft loans to buy a house, in addition to existing family allowances and exiting soft loans
Europe Hungary The “gold convoy” case - the seizure of a Ukraine’s state-owned bank vehicle transporting €80 million in cash and gold from Austria back to Kyiv in a routine interbank transfer - is stirring diplomacy, illegal arms deals suspected behind the affair
Europe Hungary Prosecutors indicted the progressive mayor of Budapest, Gergely Karácsony, for his role in organizing a gay pride march last June in defiance of a ban imposed by far-right Prime Minister Viktor Orbán's government
Europe Hungary With the first during of concrete, IAEA officially changed the status of Paks II nuclear power plant from project to under construction; government sees it as a guarantee for reducing ancillary costs, and the "flagship of Europe’s nuclear renaissance"
Europe Hungary With parliamentary elections scheduled for 12 April, latest polls forecast 39% preferences for Orbán’s party, Fidesz, and 51% for the opposition led by MEP Péter Magyar; Orbán involved the global far right in a controversial video advert