What happened today in Hungary? — 24 August, 2024

• Budapest baths risk closure amidst political and financial tensions
• Warning: Traffic disruptions on Budapest’s busy Andrássy Avenue due to festival
• Wizz Air leaves 14-year-old Icelandic boy behind while group returns home from Rome
• How medieval Hungarian villages looked before the Ottoman occupation: A digital reconstruction

Politics, diplomacy:

• Official: Brussels leaves Hungary and Slovakia to handle Lukoil sanctions alone
• U.S. imposes sanctions on 2 Hungarian entities with Russian ties
• What happened? Hungarian foreign minister’s interference in internal affairs of a dictatorship
• Hungary’s debt to China skyrockets, raising financial concerns