Top Hungary news: How will Putin come to Budapest?, attempt to save Sziget fails, mobile shops, new Wizz flights — 17 October, 2025

Featured Hungary news stories:

• Running out of time? First attempt to save Sziget Festival ends in failure
• Budapest to host 14th Diplomatic Charity Fair: Discover the world’s cultures in one day!
• Innovation: Lidl launches mobile shops in Hungary!
• New parking system in Budapest: Short-stay spaces, courier zones, K+R stops introduced

Diplomacy, politics:

• Sooner than expected: Here’s when Trump and Putin will meet in Budapest for potential peace talks
• Putin and Orbán in secretive phone call: here’s how the Russian President would arrive in Budapest
• Brussels spy scandal edges toward political crisis – EU commissioner from Hungary denies all allegations

Travel, tourism:

• Wizz Air launches flights from Budapest to 2 gorgeous destinations!
• Ambitious: NASA pushes to build a moon nuclear reactor by 2030

Society, crime:

• Cruelty: Hungarian parents starved and neglected 39-year-old disabled daughter
• Tragedy near Hungary: 3 dead and over 500 homeless after gas explosion – photos and video

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