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Whether connected to a computer or a piano, Balázs Zságer, 36, has the tired look of a nocturnal bird. With one foot in Hungary’s electro rock scene and another abroad, he speaks about the melancholy that underpins eastern European pop music, as well as his difficulties to get his album sold outside of his native land

Whilst shopping malls spring up like mushrooms, more and more shops in the city centre stand empty. Where does the course lie between tradition and modernity in Budapest?

Resistance groups may be fighting pollution in Budapest, but there’s a long way to go from holding bicycle protests to creating a political impact. How can ecological thinking blossom in the Hungarian capital?

You can’t evade the underground in everyday life in Budapest, which has the second oldest metro system in Europe after London

Budapest is famous for being one of the world’s sex capitals. Pornography, sex toursim and prostitution converge in the Hungarian capital, to the delight of some and the frowns of others

The accords making European higher education compatible reached Hungarian universities in 2006. A sociology student at Budapest Corvinus University describes the trying experience of the new system which celebrated ten years on 25 May

It has been four years since the European Union opened its door wide open and welcomed ten member states. It's not been a 100% success story for every member though