Former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ruled Hungary with an iron fist for 16 years. After he was unseated in a landslide election last April, many Hungarians wonder if the new government led by Peter Magyar can mend the deeply damaged democracy.

Hungarian working crews are sinking two barges into the Danube River in an attempt to raise water levels and stave off an energy crisis.

The Danube has given us days, not months,” Prime Minister Péter Magyar said, as plunging river levels threatened the plant that supplies around a third of Hungary’s electricity.

Three of four units of Hungary's Paks nuclear power plant were not in operation and the fourth was operating at about 50%, as of Wednesday morning.

Hungarian lawmakers on Tuesday approved former supreme court chief Andras Baka – a prominent critic of Viktor Orban who was ousted during the ex-premier's time in power – as the country's next head

Baka was removed from the supreme court by the previous Hungarian government in 2011, a move denounced at the time as an assault on democratic freedoms.

Europe’s brutal heat wave has already sparked record-breaking temperatures, deadly wildfires and mass evacuations. Now a new crisis looms: an energy shortage.

BUDAPEST, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Hungarian authorities will sink two barges in the Danube on Saturday to raise the water level at the Paks nuclear plant to avert a shutdown of one of its last two remaining turbines,

Hungary's Parliament has elected András Baka as president as the new government dismantles structures left by former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Dominik Szoboszlai started to sing and his Hungary team-mates followed. Only their lips moved, Szoboszlai at the front, the majority with arms behind their backs but some with fists on their hearts. Over the advertising hoardings, their black-clad ...

Over the course of his 16 years as Hungary's prime minister, Viktor Orbán eroded the country's democratic institutions. Now a new government is in power and is working to fix it.