What happened today? — 16 June, 2023

• Summer arrives in Hungary: beach weather at the weekend, heatwave next week
• Deep depression: No country is more pessimistic than Hungary right now

Business:

• Government-close company acquires Hungary’s largest bookstore chain: governmental interference to come?
• Another huge change coming to shops in Hungary: say goodbye to paper receipts

Travel, transport:

• Traffic starts at Transylvania’s brand new airport, Wizz Air operates flights – PHOTOS
• Major traffic changes in one of Budapest’s busiest areas this summer

Politics:

• Orbán: Europe treats me as a black sheep for representing freedom
• Orbán: West’s help to Ukraine ‘poorly assessed, flawed strategy’
• VIDEO: People demonstrate against visit of Hungarian minister in Jerusalem
• The EU is intervening in member states’ budgets, Hungarian finance minister says