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As a disaffected 15-year-old punk growing up outside Durham in northern England, complete with his trademark green Mohican hair, Neil Wolstenholme could never have envisaged living in an Eastern European country. “I had no intention of coming to Hungary,” he says, “but I did ...

It wasn’t until her mid-forties that she began taking pictures as a self-taught photographer, yet Zofia Rydet became one of the best-known Polish photographers ever. Due to a love affair, she visited Hungary several times in the 1960s and 1970s. Her images vividly captured ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is pursuing a remorseless campaign including all-out war to become overlord of Eastern Europe, colonising Ukraine, the Baltic States, Poland and other former Soviet satellites, Tony Abbott, Australian Prime Minister from 2013-15, told a geopolitical forum hosted by the Danube ...

Let’s drop in the Budapest International Fair (BNV), browse and taste everything we can; after all, all the specialty products of the Western market debut there. Later, we should have some American refreshments in the bar after filling up our cars with Italian super-petrol ...

Fans of the Fortepan online repository of Hungarian photographs are sure to know the name and photos of Tivadar Lissák. The talented amateur photographer is one of the important sources of the archive, as a couple of years ago, thanks to his family’s generosity; ...

The Raoul Wallenberg Prize was handed over to four individuals and a civil organisation that helps disadvantaged communities in Hungary, the Raoul Wallenberg Association said on Wednesday.

As strange as any of the films that Mark Rimmell worked on, is the plot of his own life; in particular, the months he spent at the Marriott hotel, sitting on his balcony and staring across the Danube at the building in which he ...

Citizens of European countries expect the European Union to be more effective and transparent, according to a survey conducted by the Szazadveg Foundation in 30 countries earlier this year.

Fashions from Ecuador paraded on a Budapest catwalk this month were a tribute to the dedicated, behind-the-scenes artisans back home, as it was their humble creations – splendid handmade clothes and accessories such as luxurious scarves, sweaters, traditional ponchos, symbolic Panama and felt hats, ...

It was never Alex Stemp’s intention to settle in Hungary. In 1993, feeling jaded with his life in England and curious about the world beyond the recently opened Iron Curtain, Alex found himself sitting in a bar in Prague. He was also somewhat jaded ...