Sep 08 Watch Refugees break through police at overflow camp in Hungary By PBS News Hour At the Hungarian border, a fence erected by the government is being built to keep refugees and migrants out -- a stark contrast to the response of other European nations, which are debating how and whether to let more people… Continue watching
Sep 04 Watch 7:07 News Wrap: Desperate migrants start to march toward Germany By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Friday, thousands of refugees and migrants who had been trapped at a railway station in Budapest set out by foot to reach Germany, hundreds of miles away. Also, 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates and… Continue watching
Sep 03 Watch 4:05 Train taking stranded migrants to Hungarian camp prompts clashes By PBS News Hour In Budapest, thousands of migrants and refugees were stalled at a train station, waiting and hoping to be granted passage on to other parts of Europe. Then they were allowed to board a train, only to find out it was… Continue watching
Sep 02 Watch 3:32 Thousands of refugees stranded at Budapest train station By PBS News Hour The Hungarian government has halted rail travel for refugees and migrants, stranding hundreds at a makeshift camp. James Mates of Independent Television News reports from Budapest. Continue watching
Aug 04 Watch 9:30 Why Hungary is building a new ‘Iron Curtain’ By PBS News Hour In Hungary, government leaders say they can't cope with the flood of migrants entering their country: 80,000 so far this year. So the government is racing to complete a 110 mile-long fence -- what opponents are calling a “new Iron… Continue watching
Sep 21 Fearing eviction, Hungary’s Roma wonder ‘are we next?’ By Stephen Fee Around 25,000 Roma people live in Miskolc, mostly in Roma-majority neighborhoods, and their situation is currently in peril. Continue reading
Sep 20 Watch Promising Roma crackdown, far-right party gains ground in Hungary By PBS News Hour Over ten million gypsy, or Roma, people live in Europe today. In the small EU nation of Hungary, a rising tide of right-wing politics has led to deepening tensions with the country’s Roma minority. NewsHour's Stephen Fee reports. Continue watching
Apr 17 Hungary practices the ‘watering of the girls’ for Easter By Justin Scuiletti Hungarians are getting ready for a regional tradition known as the “watering of the girls" in participants dress in traditional garb and take to the streets, where boys will throw buckets of water at them as they run past. Continue reading
Mar 08 Four nations urge U.S. gas exports amid Ukraine crisis By Josh Lederman, Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Four Central European nations are urging the United States to boost natural gas exports to Europe as a hedge against the possibility that Russia could cut off its supply of gas to Ukraine. Ambassadors from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia… Continue reading
Jan 14 Russia, Hungary move forward on expansion of nuclear power plant By News Desk Hungary has plans to expand its nuclear energy capacity at its only nuclear power plant in Paks, Hungary. But in order to execute its plans, the country will need financial help from Russia. Photo by Barna Rovács/Wikimedia Commons… Continue reading