Updated August 2026. What changed this year: the state celebration has been scaled back sharply, and the fireworks budget cut to roughly a quarter of the near 5 billion forint originally contracted in December 2025. August 20 is Hungary’s national holiday,...
It’s the first week of December and Budapest is slipping into Christmas-party mode. Between the Irish-Hungarian Business Circle’s glittering celebration and XpatLoop’s big charity event this weekend, my calendar already looks like it’s had a confetti cannon fired at...
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I’m Anikó Woods, a Canadian-Hungarian who’s been knee-deep in life here since 2017 - bureaucracy, culture, and everything in between.
A public proposal would simplify Hungary’s work permit system and undo much of the 2024 framework. Nothing has changed yet, but the discussion has begun.