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Old Friends, New Energy Fight: Poland, Hungary And The Grid Bill
An American at Budapest’s Polish-Hungarian Energy Forum discovers the history behind an old friendship, and a very current…
Discovering Debrecen, One Conversation At A Time
A day in Debrecen with Hungarian food journalists gave me a reason to look east from Budapest. At…
My First Dining Guide Gala: Inside Hungary’s Restaurant Of The Year 2026
Hungary's restaurant year gets read out loud in one evening, and in 2026 it came with a twist:…
The Budapest Business Journal’s Back To Business Party At Gordon Ramsay Bar & Grill
Hungary's oldest surviving English-language newspaper was started by Americans in 1992, when almost nobody in the country spoke…
Sarawak Came To Budapest: Hungary’s Quiet Trade Link To Borneo
A state on the island of Borneo flew its trade chief to a hotel on the Danube to…
What Budapest Gives My Son Without Ever Teaching Him
A bridge that was blown up and rebuilt, a parliament too big to take in at once, a…
India’s 80th Independence Day In Budapest Opened With A Hungarian Poet
The Embassy of India marked 79 years of freedom in a Budapest garden by opening with Hungary's national…
The Hungarian Guitar Maker Behind An Unmarked Door In Budapest
Ray rents a storage room in Budapest, and one door down a Hungarian luthier has been quietly building…
Contributor · SmikeThe Hungarian Wine Valtteri Bottas Can’t Stop Buying
It is Formula 1 weekend in Budapest, and Smike keeps replaying the day Valtteri Bottas walked into his…
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