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.

Listening to Péter Magyar at Bled, much of his diagnosis of the European Union could easily have come from Viktor Orbán. On EU bureaucracy, lack of leadership, competitiveness, migration, cohesion funds, Central European cooperation and strongman posturing towards EU institutions, the two align significantly. The sharp break is in strategy: Magyar seeks cooperation within a system Orbán increasingly sought to overturn.

Contemporary German-language literature will take centre stage at the 31st Budapest Book Festival, with Germany, Austria and Switzerland serving as joint guests of honour. The four-day event will feature internationally acclaimed authors, emerging writers and children’s and young adult literature from 1–4 October.

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.

US PlayStation customers who purchased certain digital games between 2019 and 2023 could be eligible for a share of a proposed 7.85 million dollar settlement with Sony. The settlement has received preliminary court approval, with a final approval hearing scheduled for 15 October.

Fifteen-year-old Hungarian student Laura Ivánka has become the first Hungarian ever awarded at the Stockholm Junior Water Prize final, earning the 2026 Diploma of Excellence for her DIVE&CLEAN seabed waste system. The honour crowns an extraordinary scientific record spanning marine research, engineering, robotics and international competitions before she has even finished secondary school.

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.

‘We should strive once again to become that lush, green, watery realm that our Hungarian ancestors once knew.’

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.

The European Commission has designated ChatGPT as a very large online search engine and Reddit and Roblox as very large online platforms under the EU’s Digital Services Act. The services are required to assess and mitigate systemic risks arising from their platforms and algorithmic systems.

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.

Hungarian households are expected to spend an average of 107,539 forints on preparing for the new school year, with spending averaging 66,928 forints per child, according to a new PwC survey. Most families continue to prioritise traditional school supplies, while online shopping and AI tools are becoming increasingly common.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope has been launched from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The next-generation observatory will operate about 1.6 million kilometres from Earth and survey the universe with a field of view far larger than Hubble’s.

Péter Magyar’s government has quietly removed Hungary’s annual instruction to oppose references to the Global Compact for Migration and reject its implementation at the UN. The change leaves domestic restrictions intact, but it redraws a major Orbán-era foreign-policy boundary by creating room for selective engagement with the international migration-management system.

Three men were stabbed outside Amsterdam Centraal on Saturday by Dutch fitness influencer Angelo Bryson, who livestreamed the confrontation to his TikTok audience. Bryson, known as ‘Superhuman Unchained’, had recently converted to Islam and increasingly used his platform to discuss Palestine and North Africa, including support for Morocco’s claim over Ceuta.

‘Economic warfare is nothing new but has accompanied human development from prehistoric times to the present day—people have often taken up arms to increase their prosperity and open the doors to trade. Clashes and aggression have coexisted with exchange since the dawn of time.’

‘Colour revolutions are weapons for waging political battle, and rely on the so-called “methods of non-violent action” that unfold as protests against the government, under the pretext of fighting against dictatorship and corruption, led by the opposition.’

‘Hungary commemorates the 500th anniversary of the Battle of Mohács against the Ottoman Empire today, 29 August 2026. The date is crucial to Hungarian history and identity. But what exactly happened there that makes it so important?’

Illegal migrants in Ceuta threw bottles containing a chemical solvent at local protesters on Friday, escalating a fourth day of unrest in the Spanish enclave. Hours earlier, police were reported to be investigating bulk purchases of hydrochloric acid and aluminium foil by migrants accompanied by NGO activists, fuelling growing local hostility towards humanitarian groups.

Hungarian wage growth slowed sharply in June, with average gross earnings rising by 7.1 per cent year-on-year—the weakest increase since 2021. Despite the slowdown, strong real wage growth and subdued inflation continue to support household consumption and economic growth.

Pedro Sánchez came to power promising political ‘regeneration’; eight years later, Ceuta has become the clearest symbol of what his experiment produced instead. Corruption scandals, radical social engineering and a permissive migration policy have converged in an enclave fighting for its existence against invading masses, while Madrid’s denial has betrayed Ceuta, Spain and, increasingly, Europe itself.

European Council President António Costa will meet Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar in Budapest on 2 September as part of his tour of EU member states. The talks will focus on the bloc’s next long-term budget and other key EU priorities.

Canada’s taxpayer-funded CBC is facing backlash after an internal memo told journalists not to describe the 11 September attacks as ‘terrorist attacks’. The directive drew criticism from Canadian and US politicians and comes amid unusually tense relations between Washington and Ottawa, just weeks ahead of the 25th anniversary of 9/11.

President Trump has shared his ranking of US Presidents on his own social media platform, Truth Social. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he has ranked himself as the Greatest of All Time. However, who else did he rank high, and who did he rank as ‘Failures’ among the men who had served in his role before him?

UNICEF Hungary has urged reforms to address problems in Hungary’s child protection system, educational inequalities and children’s mental health. The organization presented its recommendations at a Geneva meeting ahead of the United Nations’ Universal Periodic Review of Hungary.