Protests against the Hungarian government continued this weekend, with thousands of people demonstrating in Budapest and other major cities against the so called “slave...
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There is a church in the castle district where I like to go everyday. A church, or what remains of it. It used to be the church of Mary Magdalene, built in the 13th...
Since late last year OBB, Austrian railways, has operated a direct service from Cluj in Romania to Vienna. It’s all part of the European Union’s opening up...
Emerging European countries spend the most on alcohol, according to new figures from the European Union’s statistics department, Eurostat. Estonia, Latvia and...
The minimum wage for skilled Hungarian workers will increase by eight per cent in 2019 and by an additional eight per cent in 2020. The new deal was agreed by the...
A Budapest memorial to Imre Nagy, Hungarian prime minister during the revolution of 1956, was removed by the authorities early on the morning of December 29. The removal...
Albania moved ever closer to the EU. A huge step forward was taken in April when the European Commission recommended starting accession talks with both Albania and...
Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has called on Europeans to vote together in elections for the European parliament next May in order to stop any further...
Citizenship and residency by investment – known by the acronym CRBI – has become a fully-fledged industry, with a number of organisations increasingly worried that it is...
In an era of digitalisation and e-commerce, the region’s shopping centres have no other choice but evolve, from merely being places to shop to offering a well-rounded...
Société Générale (SocGen) has agreed to sell its bank in Serbia to Hungary’s OTP, as the French outfit continues its retreat from parts of emerging Europe while OTP...
Airbus, a global leader in aeronautics and space manufacturing, will establish a helicopter plant in Hungary by 2021, creating hundreds of new jobs. Two cities in the...
