Ministerial order bans clearcutting in nature reserves and in Natura 2000 sites
The previous government decree did not prohibit felling in Natura 2000 areas, and according to the Minister of Agriculture, the felling of indigenous trees remains banned.
They wanted to keep me as a slave
Hungarian women make up a significant percentage of the UK’s live-in care workers – and while they earn significantly more than they would for the same job at home, a recent report highlights...
The barbaric and completely unnecessary new regulation encouraging deforestation in Hungary
The Hungarian government recently declared an "energy emergency" allowing for the rapid expansion of logging (among others). Experts are worried and claim that the regulation unnecessarily tramples...
Our child protection referendum at Sziget festival
We showed the questions of the Hungarian government's April child protection referendum to foreign festival-goers at Sziget festival. Most of them believe it is important to inform children about...
Old-fashioned government media is being gobbled up by Facebook propaganda
The cornerstone of Fidesz propaganda has been the friendly media; the number of press outlets used to spread their own messages has been growing for a few governing cycles. Recently, however, as it...
Katalin Karikó's impressive ascension is just a glitch in the matrix
Hungarian scientist Katalin Karikó made news due to her contribution to the development of Pfizer's COVID vaccine. Although there are more women in higher education in Hungary than men, female...
Who was the first Hungarian to set foot in America?
It's very likely that Hungarians had visited America before the colonial period. What is questionable, however, is who the first Hungarian visitor was: was it a man who landed with the Vikings, or a...
The last remaining traces of the brutalities of the fifties
Hungarian photographer Dániel Kovalovszky spent years working on a series of photographs tracking down people who lived through the horrors of the 1950s and the places where all those horrors...
The Hungarian doctor who was mistaken for Mengele, the feared Nazi doctor, and who translated...
Sándor Lénárd switched homelands three times, and although he was forced to flee the Nazis, in Brazil he was once mistaken for Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi doctor. He had the unusual idea of...
The captured American spy plane that crashed during a Hungarian pleasure flight
On August 6th, 1961, a former US spy plane, which had been turned into a passenger plane crashed in Budapest, killing 30 people. But how did it end up in Hungary, and why did it crash?
