The 97-year-old former police commander László Csatáry was arrested on Wednesday and questioned on suspicion of war crimes. He is thought to have coordinated the transportation of tens of thousands of Jews to Auschwitz in 1944, as well as committing numerous acts of vicious cruelty, when he was in charge of a transit camp in… Continue »

War crimes suspect László Csatáry has been arrested and questioned in relation to incidents dating back to 1944, prosecutors said in Budapest on Wednesday. The announcement came just two days after the prosecution service raised doubts over the progress of its investigation by alluding to numerous difficulties relating to jurisdiction and the time that had… Continue »

Mr. President, a year ago, I shared with my colleagues concerns I had about the trajectory of democracy in Hungary. Unfortunately, since then Hungary has moved ever farther away from a broad range of norms relating to democracy and the rule of law. ‘Putinisation’ On June 6, David Kramer, the President of Freedom House who… Continue »

Watermelons are the summer’s cheapest fruit but domestic ones are set to remain more expensive than imported ones despite the launch of a HUF 20 million (EUR 69,999) government campaign to promote the Hungarian-grown fruit. The campaign aims to encourage multinational chains to stock, and consumers to buy, watermelon from the Békés, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok and Szabolcs… Continue »

Summer evenings in the Castle District are about to gain more rhythm. From Tuesday 24 July to Saturday 18 August, the program of “Dance in the Carmelite Courtyard” is presenting traditional Hungarian folk to flamenco and tango. As the title suggests, the events will be staged in the grounds of a former nunnery, close to… Continue »

I  should live so long. My Toronto dentist’s father survived Auschwitz and lived well into his nineties. He bestowed on his son (besides a great sense of humour) a great insight into life. He told him, “If you live long enough, you will get to experience every indignity known to man”. Would that only were… Continue »

“They have healed the brokenness of My people superficially, Saying, ‘Peace, peace’, But there is no peace.” (Jeremiah 6:14) As we look at the history of our world and examine our own human experience we see that indeed peace is a rare commodity. Throughout our lifetimes all we have seen is the continuation of wars… Continue »