Thousands of healthcare workers demonstrated in Budapest late Tuesday afternoon to call the government's attention to their "humiliatingly low wages". As the website [origo] calculated, the net hourly wage for nurses is below the price of a Big Mac.

The UN Refugee Agency speaks out against a growing expression of xenophobia in Hungary. It raises concerns over efforts by the Hungarian government to paint refugees as a threat to the country in leading questions asked in a so-called national consultation.

With 99.13% of the votes counted, Lajos Rig, candidate of the radical right-wing party Jobbik is set to win the Veszprém county No. 3 constituency by-election ahead of his governing Fidesz party candidate with the joint center-left candidate finishing third.

According to figures published by the Central Statistical Office, 31,000 Hungarian citizens moved abroad in 2014 for a period of more than one year. Analysts attribute this development to low wages and the lack of opportunities for younger people in Hungary.

On the March 15 national day, Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán emphasized the importance of freedom fight in gaining national sovereignty while a crowd of 6-8,000 people marched on the streets of Budapest, vowing to bring the anti-democratic Orbán regime down.

Five civil organizations have turned to the Hungarian President not to sign into law the governing majority's parliamentary decision to classify the enlargement of the country's nuclear power station for 30 years that the opposition suspects is a cover for corruption.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has held his 17th annual evaluation speech this Friday. He claimed that “our flag is flying high; everyone can see that. Everyone can see that we are a people’s party community, based on Christian-democratic foundations."

Zoltán Kész, an independent candidate supported by the left-wing opposition, won a seat in Hungarian parliament in Sunday's by-election. It means that the ruling Fidesz party (along with its small satellite Christian Democrats) no longer have a two-thirds majority.

The extremist Islamic terrorist attack in Paris in early January changed the preset agenda of the Latvian Presidency of the European Council, the Latvian Ambassador Imants Liegis said at a press conference about the program of the Latvian Presidency.

Civil groups and local Socialist Party activists organised a roadblock in protest of the new road toll regulations. The demonstrators blocked one lane on each side along a 1-km section on dual carriageway M86 near Szombathely, in western Hungary.

The rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union is fillied in the first six months of 2015 by Latvia. On this occasion, Diplomacy & Trade asked the country's ambassador to Hungary, Imants Liegis, to share his views with our readers.

The LIGA trade union held partial road blockade at 62 points around Hungary from the morning till the afternoon this Monday in protest against a number of government measures which the unions say are disadvantageous to employees.

The President of Hungary’s tax authority NAV, Ildikó Vida, has acknowledged that she and some of her colleagues are among those state officials that were banned by Washington from travelling to the United States. She said she did not contemplate resigning.

According to Transparency International Hungary, the Hungarian government and the prosecution service should launch an immediate investigation into the corruption allegations expressed by the United States. TI has published a global survey on corruption.

About ten thousand people flocked to the streets in Budapest on Sunday evening to protest against the world’s first internet tax the government plans to implement. Police in riot gear lined up to protect the Budapest headquarters of the governing party.