Budapest

Budapest (Hungarian: [ˈbudɒpɛʃt]; names in other languages) is the capital and the largest city of Hungary, and one of the largest cities in the European Union. It is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre, sometimes described as the primate city of Hungary. According to the census, in 2011 Budapest had 1.74 million inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2.1 million due to suburbanisation. The Budapest Metropolitan Area is home to 3.3 million people. The city covers an area of 525 square kilometres (202.7 sq mi). Budapest became a single city occupying both banks of the river Danube with the unification of Buda and Óbuda on the west bank, with Pest on the east bank on 17 November 1873.

The history of Budapest began with Aquincum, originally a Celtic settlement that became the Roman capital of Lower Pannonia.Hungarians arrived in the territory in the 9th century. Their first settlement was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. The re-established town became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. Following the Battle of Mohács and nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule, the region entered a new age of prosperity in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Budapest became a global city after its unification in 1873. It also became the second capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a great power that dissolved in 1918, following World War I. Budapest was the focal point of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, the Hungarian Republic of Councils in 1919, the Battle of Budapest in 1945, and the Revolution of 1956.

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Hungary votes in favour of Finland's NATO bid. What is happening to Sweden's bid?

RTE 28 Mar 2023
It was the first direct explanation issued by a Hungarian government official about Budapest's reluctance to ratify Sweden's membership bid ... Budapest, it appears, wants Swedish politicians to stop talking about the Hungarian government's handling of rule-of-law in order for it to greenlight the bid to join NATO....
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Hungarian Parliament Approves Finland's Bid to Join NATO

Beijing News 28 Mar 2023
Some Hungarian opposition politicians and analysts believe the country's foot-dragging on ratification had aimed at pushing Sweden and Finland to support the release of billions in EU funds earmarked for Budapest that have been frozen over alleged breaches of the bloc's rule-of-law standards....
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Hungarian parliament approves Finland’s bid to join NATO

Federal News Radio 28 Mar 2023
Some Hungarian opposition politicians and analysts believe the country’s foot-dragging on ratification had aimed at pushing Sweden and Finland to support the release of billions in EU funds earmarked for Budapest that have been frozen over alleged breaches of the bloc’s rule-of-law standards....
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News-Press Now 28 Mar 2023
BUDAPEST, Hungary ... Some Hungarian opposition politicians and analysts believe the country's foot-dragging on ratification had aimed at pushing Sweden and Finland to support the release of billions in EU funds earmarked for Budapest that have been frozen over alleged breaches of the bloc's rule-of-law standards....
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Hungary comments on Ukraine’s NATO and EU bids

Russia Today 25 Mar 2023
Budapest will not support Kiev’s membership due to discrimination against minorities, the foreign minister has said ... Ukraine is also home to around 150,000 ethnic Romanians and more than 250,000 Moldovans, and Bucharest previously joined Budapest in demanding that the language laws be revised....
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Hungary comments on Ukraine's NATO and EU bids

Beijing News 25 Mar 2023
Budapest will not support Kiev's membership due to discrimination against minorities, the foreign minister has said ... Up to 99 Hungarian primary and secondary schools are in danger of being closed in Ukraine due to the nation's education law, Szijjarto said ... Bucharest previously joined Budapest to demand that Kiev's language laws be revised....
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Hungary says it will block Ukraine joining EU and NATO because of Ukraine’s education law

Yahoo Daily News 25 Mar 2023
Peter Szijjarto continues to criticize the law on education ... are in danger of being closed due to the Ukrainian education law.”. The Law on Education was adopted by the Verkhovna Rada in 2017 ... Hungary was among the first countries to criticize the new law....
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The EU’s Horizon Europe funding freeze is causing disputes

Open Access Government 24 Mar 2023
However, according to the EU, these foundations breach several rule of law principles ... Dániel Deák, professor of international taxation and EU law at Corvinus University of Budapest, added, “We need a corruption-free institutional environment, and then Hungarian participants will be welcomed by the EU partner institutions.”....
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Medvedev: Actions of West raising nuclear risk

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 24 Mar 2023
Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said during a news conference in Budapest that arresting Putin would contravene Hungarian law because the country has not promulgated the statute of the International Criminal Court into its legal system....
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Arresting Putin will be seen as a declaration of WAR: Russia's threat after ICC issued ...

The Daily Mail 24 Mar 2023
Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, told reporters in Budapest that arresting Putin would contravene Hungarian law because the country has not promulgated the statute of the ICC into its legal system ... arresting Putin would therefore violate Hungarian law....
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Trump arrested? Putin jailed? Fake AI images spread online

The Associated Press 23 Mar 2023
Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said during a news conference in Budapest that arresting Putin would contravene Hungarian law because the country has not promulgated the statute of the International Criminal Court into its legal system....
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Hungary would not act on Putin arrest warrant, official says

Killeen Daily Herald 23 Mar 2023
Gergely Gulyas, chief of staff to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said during a news conference in Budapest that arresting Putin would contravene Hungarian law because the country has not promulgated the statute of the International Criminal Court into its legal system....
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NATO to hold Ukraine meeting despite Hungary's objections

The Nashville Ledger 21 Mar 2023
Hungary and Ukraine are at loggerheads over a language law adopted in Ukraine in 2017 which the nationalist government in Budapest insists stops members of the Transcarpathian ethnic minority from studying in Hungarian ... The European Court of Human Rights has also condemned Budapest's handling of asylum-seekers....

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