Top Hungary news: huge protest in Budapest, outdoor baths opened, new profit margin caps, guest workers – 2 May, 2025

We’ve rounded up the top Hungary news from today: huge protest in Budapest, outdoor baths opened, new profit maximums in property sector, demand for guest workers falling.

Featured Hungary news

  • Huge protest in Budapest, demonstrators tried to block Chain Bridge, police intervened – read more and check out some photos HERE
  • Numerous outdoor baths in Hungary reopened on May Day: Brace yourself for the brutal ticket prices
  • Orbán cabinet may introduce new profit margin caps in the property and construction sectors – details in THIS article
  • Average price of traditional Hungarian beach food reaches new psychological limit
  • Demand for guest workers falling in Hungary – check out HERE why

Hungary politics

  • Non-aligned MP Hadházy suggests that PM Orbán would go to war with the Serbs in Bosnia – read more HERE
  • Hungary exempted from new Russian sanctions: Putin’s gesture or something else?
  • Mayor Karácsony: Budapest bled to the limit, Orbán cabinet confiscating the municipality’s tax revenues

Vatican

  • Italian papers: Cardinal Péter ErdÅ‘ has a chance to become pope; he revealed Macron’s meddling in the election – read more HERE

Hungary culture

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The 18th-19th century reconstructed tomb chamber, Photo: Jácint Mayer