What happened today in Hungary? – 18 March, 2024

• Popular international food chain flees Hungary due to PM Orbán and his oligarchs? – details HERE
• Hungary’s favourite direct train to the Croatian coast will be back this summer – read details HERE
• True sci-fi: the luckiest ones can enter one of Budapest’s most extraordinary buildings – read details HERE
• Grim outlook: Will the forint plummet to 400 EUR? – details HERE

Politics

• Foreign national is the newest Ministerial Commissioner in the Orbán government – details HERE
• No veto: EU Peace Facility top-up adopted with Hungarian constructive abstention, details HERE

Society, sport, wine

• Knife attack in Austria: a Hungarian man attacked his bosses on the motorway – details HERE
• Let’s go to Paris! Hungarian men’s handball team qualifies for the Olympics at the last minute – details HERE
• Here are the 5 most magnificent historical wine regions in Hungary
• Spring time change in Hungary: an important date is approaching – read details HERE