Budapest

Michael Ignatieff’s looming battle with Hungary

The former Liberal leader says the university he runs in Hungary—backed by George Soros—is being ‘targeted’ by the government

Budapest’s burning love

Budapest’s burning love

Elvis is a hero to most in Hungary

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Media funnies for a slow news day, Vol. I

My old pal Sean, a Canadian expatriate in Budapest, logged onto CNN this morning to find Serb ultra-nationalists inexplicably venting their fury on the streets of Hungary’s beautiful capital city. Had they swum up the Danube under cover of night? Had Balkan politics, against all odds, just become even more complex? Thankfully, no—the riot was in Belgrade, just where it should have been. It was simply an editing-room mixup, as Sean documents for us below: