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The EU will get its first European Public Prosecutor's Office to go after wrongdoing involving EU funds

'Zero tolerance' after reported farm budget abuse - EU

The European Commission has declared it has "zero tolerance for fraud" after the New York Times alleged the gigantic EU agriculture budget shores up political corruption in eastern member states.

World • 04 Nov 19

Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Peter Szijjarto welcomes Angela Merkel to Sopron

Merkel and Orban mark Iron Curtain fall amid divide

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban welcomed German Chancellor Angela Merkel to the city of Sopron to commemorate a pivotal moment in the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.

World • 19 Aug 19

East German citizens break through a gate of the fence separating Hungary and Austria on the border between the two countries near Sopron during the Pan-European Picnic on 19 August 1989

The Iron Curtain: Five things to know

It has been 30 years since the first cracks in the Iron Curtain began to show, as Hungary began to start opening its border with Austria, eventually leading to the fall of the Berlin wall three months later.

World • 19 Aug 19

Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock (left) and his Hungarian counterpart Gyula Horn cut the barbed wire in Sopron, a Hungarian border town near Austria

30 years since first chink in Hungary's Iron Curtain

The first chink that appeared in the Iron Curtain happened in Hungary 30 years ago today when an Austrian and a Hungarian minister tore through the barbed wire with bolt cutters.

Europe • 27 Jun 19

The Mermaid tourist boat is being taken out of the water

More bodies found as Hungary lifts sunken boat

Hungarian police have recovered more bodies as they lifted a sightseeing boat that sank in the river Danube in Budapest last month in an accident that has claimed at least 24 lives.

World • 11 Jun 19

21 people are still missing after the disaster

Body recovered from wreckage of Hungarian tourist boat

Divers have brought up a body from the wreck of a tourist boat which sank last week in Budapest, and another body was pulled from the river 100km downstream, the first apparent victims recovered since the night of the crash.

World • 03 Jun 19

High water levels in the Danube are hampering the search operation

Cruise ship captain charged over fatal Danube collision

The captain of a river cruise ship that collided with a smaller sightseeing vessel has been charged over the accident in Budapest that killed seven South Korean tourists and left 21 missing.

News • 01 Jun 19

Donald Trump told reporters 'Viktor Orbán has done a tremendous job in so many different ways'

Trump praises Hungary's anti-immigration PM Orbán

US President Donald Trump has praised Hungary's hardline authoritarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán as a leader respected throughout Europe who kept his country safe with his crackdown on immigration.

US • 14 May 19

Thousands took to the streets to protest the new laws

Thousands protest in Budapest over 'slave law'

Thousands of Hungarians protested in Budapest last night, resuming demonstrations that started on Wednesday against new legislation governing labour regulations.

Europe • 14 Dec 18

The government has argued that the change would benefit those wanting to earn more money by working more hours

Thousands protest in Hungary over 'slavery' law

Thousands of Hungarians have protested in Budapest against a proposed new labour law that allows employers to ask for up to 400 hours of overtime work per year, a move its critics have billed as the "slave law".

World • 08 Dec 18

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said he would not bow to the EU's 'blackmail'

MEPs vote to take action against Hungary

Members of the EU parliament have voted to begin a punitive procedure against Hungary for persistently flouting democratic rules.

European Union • 12 Sep 18

The European Commission referred Hungary to the EU Court of Justice 'for non-compliance of its asylum and return legislation with EU law'

Orban says new EU approach needed on migration

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said a new European Commission is needed with a new approach to migration policy.

Europe • 27 Jul 18

Four men jailed over murder of migrants in Hungary

Four men have been sentenced to 25 years in jail by a Hungarian court for the deaths of 71 migrants who suffocated in a lorry nearly three years ago.

Europe • 14 Jun 18

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been hostiles to immigration for years

Hungary to penalise NGOs that aid illegal immigrants

Individuals or groups who help migrants not entitled to protection to submit requests for asylum or who help illegal migrants to gain status to stay in Hungary will be liable to jail under a new bill submitted to parliament.

Hungary • 29 May 18

The crowd marched through the centre of Budapest to the parliament building

Thousands of Hungarians march in anti-Orban protest

Tens of thousands of Hungarians have protested in Budapest against newly re-elected Prime Minister Viktor Orban, accusing him of rigging last weekend's vote.

News • 14 Apr 18

Viktor Orban casting his vote with his wife Aniko Levai this morning

Hungarian leader Orban wins third term in power

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's ruling Fidesz party was re-elected this evening for a third successive term with a strong mandate, with preliminary results showing Fidesz gaining a two-thirds majority in parliament.

World • 09 Apr 18

Viktor Orban's policies are popular with his base

Hungary's shift to the right concerns EU

Paul O'Flynn reports on the right wing stance of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and how it is causing concern in the EU.

Analysis and Comment • 06 Jan 18

The Government is keen to press its case ahead of phase two of the Brexit talks

Migration and Brexit discussed by Varadkar and Orbán

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has met the Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest.

Politics • 04 Jan 18

The trial is taking place in Hungary as authorities say that is where the refugees died

Four on trial in Hungary over murder of 71 refugees

Four men have gone on trial in Hungary charged with murdering 71 refugees found suffocated to death in the back of a lorry at the height of Europe's migrant crisis in 2015.

World • 21 Jun 17

Hungary to hold migrants in camps at its border with Serbia

Hungary to hold asylum seekers in shipping containers

Asylum seekers entering Hungary, as well as those currently in the country, are to be confined in camps composed of converted shipping containers while their applications are processed.

Hungary • 28 Mar 17

Hungarian officials said the corporate tax rate would be lowered to a flat 9% next year

Hungary to cut corporate tax rate to lowest in EU

Hungarian stocks have reversed an early fall today as the government pledged a corporation tax cut, which would give the country the lowest rate in the European Union.

Business • 17 Nov 16

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban leaves a polling station in Budapest after casting his vote

Hungarian PM urged to resign after migrant vote

Hungary's nationalist Jobbik party has called for Prime Minister Viktor Orban to resign because a referendum on rejecting European Union migrant quotas was rendered invalid by its low turnout.

News • 03 Oct 16

Hungarian Primie Minister Viktor Orban (centre) delivers a speech during the Fidesz party's event after the referendum in Budapest, Hungary

Low turnout voids win in Hungary anti-migrant vote

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban suffered a blow in his referendum against the EU's migrant quota plan after he failed to rally enough votes to reach the required 50% turnout.

News • 03 Oct 16

Children play under razor wire at an informal camp close to the E75 Horgas border crossing between Serbia and Hungary

Hungary plans second border fence to stop migrants

Hungary plans to build a second fence on its southern border with Serbia that would enable it to keep out any major new wave of migrants, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said this morning.

News • 26 Aug 16

Hungary had borrowed around €20 billion from the IMF, the European Union and the World Bank in 2008

Hungary pays off bailout loan amid recovery

Hungary's central bank said today it had fully repaid a multi-billion-euro loan it took out in 2008 from international lenders to prop up its wobbling economy during the financial crisis.

Business • 06 Apr 16