Hungary has not yet decided whether to return to the Eurovision Song Contest in 2027, but organizers have offered a significant reduction in the participation fee and extended the application deadline to 7 December.

Hungary and several Central and Eastern European countries have signed the Prague Declaration aimed at strengthening regional cooperation and knowledge sharing in artificial intelligence. The participating countries highlighted public administration, AI safety and specialized applications as key areas for development.

Tisza has refused to confirm opposition nominees to Hungary’s new Independent Public Media Committee, despite it being deliberately set up to root out bias towards the governing party from public media programming. The party has rejected candidates put forward by Fidesz, KDNP, and Our Homeland Movement, raising questions about the committee’s political independence.

Hungary has again blocked the opening of two further Ukrainian EU accession clusters, marking the third failed attempt to approve the necessary screening results. The veto is less about the substance of the files than about leverage over Kyiv on Transcarpathian Hungarian rights, while Péter Magyar and Volodymyr Zelenskyy still have not held their planned bilateral meeting.

A local woman has been arrested in Ceuta after an illegal Moroccan migrant was fatally stabbed inside a family home on Thursday morning following a dispute, according to local media. The killing comes as the enclave remains under severe strain after July’s mass invasion, with thousands still present and residents demanding stronger border controls and action from Madrid.

Nine people were injured after a man poured an unknown liquid onto an AfD information stand in Bad Kreuznach on Wednesday, with two taken to hospital. The attack comes amid escalating efforts by mainstream politicians to ban parts of the party, while official figures show AfD politicians suffer disproportionately high levels of political violence even as the party leads national polls with a huge margin.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Moscow would close Goethe Institute offices in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg after Germany decided to shut down the Russian House cultural centre in Berlin. Lavrov also accused Western governments of pursuing an anti-Russian campaign over the war in Ukraine.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has condemned the release of a 42-year-old Bangladeshi migrant who molested a 13-year-old girl in Turin. The suspect was freed after just 48 hours despite prosecutors seeking his detention, prompting widespread outrage across Italy and criticism from Meloni’s governing coalition.

Hungary will gain access to more detailed and frequent weather observations through the new MTG-I2 European meteorological satellite, which was successfully launched from French Guiana in late August. The satellite is expected to enter full operational service in 2027.

The Hungarian government has ordered a comprehensive review of the country’s waste management system amid a growing number of complaints over waste collection and the operation of the bottle return scheme, Prime Minister Péter Magyar said on Thursday.

Hundreds of thousands rallied across Spain on Ceuta Day demanding stronger border controls, expulsion of illegal migrants and Pedro Sánchez’s resignation, while solidarity protests also reached the European Parliament in Brussels. The demonstrations came as a police intelligence report described July’s mass invasion from Morocco as ‘planned’, deepening pressure on the government.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy fired senior SBU official Oleh Khramov on Wednesday after a shootout between security-service officers and GUR military intelligence personnel in Kyiv. The clash between two elite agencies exposed a serious breakdown in trust and command discipline as Ukraine’s war against Russia approaches its fifth year.

The emergency riverbed sill being built to protect the Paks Nuclear Power Plant has reportedly caused severe scour in the Danube, deepening the riverbed by 8–13 metres and undermining the structure itself. The problems raise questions over Péter Magyar’s crisis management and a restricted procurement process that awarded the contract to a single bidder at 30 per cent above the estimated price.

Hunter Biden said he was ‘48.6 per cent gay’ in an interview with progressive podcaster Luke Beasley, a gag that quickly spread through LGBTQ outlets. Joe Biden’s son had already stirred controversy in July by alleging a largely Republican ‘closeted gay mafia’ in Washington, naming Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and Mike Johnson.

A Mexican national who lived in California illegally from 1983 to 2024 has received a $1.820 million fine from the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security for ignoring a deportation order he had received in 2009 for 15 years before leaving.

Hungary’s government has set a 2030 target for meeting the criteria needed to adopt the euro, while revising its 2026 budget to address a much larger-than-expected deficit. The amended plan projects a 7.5 per cent GDP deficit and the state’s debt-to-GDP ratio rising from 74.6 per cent to 77.5 per cent.

Hungary’s 4iG Group and US-based SpaceX have signed agreements to introduce Starlink Mobile and secure Sovereign Solutions satellite communications services, the companies said on Wednesday. The partnership will initially cover Hungary and the Western Balkans, combining commercial satellite-mobile connectivity with protected communications capabilities.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte will meet in Leipzig on Wednesday to discuss a failed drone attack at the city’s airport that German authorities have attributed to Russia. EU leaders have vowed to strengthen support for Ukraine and prepare further sanctions against Moscow.

Centre for Budapest Transport’s former deputy CEO for mobility Ádám Bodor has been appointed to lead the company from 1 September. The appointment comes after the transport company operated under interim management following the departure of Katalin Walter in 2025.

Erin Piacenti, a 32-year-old Bank of America vice president, was killed in a random and unprovoked stabbing in Times Square on Monday, according to the NYPD. Police said attacker Pamela Cisneros stabbed a 68-year-old man seconds earlier, then later advanced on officers with two knives before being shot dead.

British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen is returning as his iconic character from the 1990s and 2000s, Ali G, in a new mockumentary. However, despite the character’s immense popularity in past decades, Cohen is now constantly being attacked for being racist, doing blackface, and supporting Israel while promoting his new film on social media.

According to anonymous sources inside the Trump administration who spoke to the New York Post, the IRS and the Treasury are getting ready to act on a 2025 directive issued by President Trump and try to remove the 501(c) tax-exempt statuses of left-wing nonprofits that allegedly contribute to political violence.

Hungary has secured all EU funding that was previously frozen, but the main task of putting the money to work is only now beginning, Transport and Investment Minister Dávid Vitézy said. He outlined major planned investments in railways, housing, water management and energy security.

Spanish prosecutors have raised the number of reported sexual assaults in Ceuta since July’s mass invasion from Morocco to 23, including five ‘rapes involving penetration’. Nine victims are minors and eight suspects have been identified, as the enclave’s security crisis deepens amid overcrowded facilities, growing pressure on police and emergency services and hardening local resistance.

Serbia opened a Chinese-backed humanoid robot factory in Šabac on 29 August, with President Vučić targeting more than 5,000 units a year and future exports to the EU. The project forms part of increasingly deep defence ties between Belgrade and Beijing, which could further complicate the country’s already stalled EU accession bid.

Marine Le Pen would beat every presidential rival according to a recent Elabe poll, defeating even Édouard Philippe in a hypothetical runoff. Despite a significant shift in mainstream voter sentiment in favour of Le Pen, French banks remain reluctant to lend to her campaign, continuing the long-standing institutional exclusion imposed on National Rally ahead of the 2027 vote.

A man in his 40s suffered life-threatening injuries after falling onto the Danube embankment following a fight near a Budapest nightclub. Police are investigating the incident, while the venue says neither its staff nor security used pepper spray during the altercation.

‘A country’s energy supply cannot be reduced to a preference for one technology over another, and its energy mix cannot be redesigned according to the political cycle of a single government. Energy strategies are built for decades, not for four-year terms.’

Iceland held a referendum over the weekend on restarting accession negotiations with the European Union. The people of the small Nordic island nation have chosen the ‘No’ option, which received 52.8 per cent of the vote, against the ‘Yes’ option’s 47.2 per cent.

Germany’s Social Democrats have been hit by an awkward scandal after a former local official was filmed naked, shouting ‘Heil Hitler’ and performing the Nazi salute. The footage surfaced while the SPD was simultaneously campaigning against the AfD, depicting the party as an extremist threat and invoking precisely the history of Nazi Germany.