Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The bountiful creative milieu of 19th- and early-20th-century Paris, teeming with such artistic giants as Claude Monet, Amedeo Modigliani and Pablo Picasso, ...

Steve Inskeep talks to Stefano Bottoni, a historian at the Hungarian Academy of Science, about Hungary's past experiences of migration, and how that influences its present attitudes toward migrants.

One of the most important and dramatic dates in Hungarian and European history is 15 March 1848. The dashing poet Sandor Petofi recited the stirring ‘Nemzeti dal’ (‘National ...

Sixty years on and half a world away, Judy Kepecz-Hays still remembers the fear. “We were walking through the forest towards the border. My mother told me not to make a sound,” she recalled. “There ...

Flick through a Hungarian history book for high school students, and you’re left in no doubt about the government’s view on migrants. The section on “Multiculturalism” opens with a photo of refugees ...

Part of the answer is simple geography. For many people fleeing Syria and other countries, Hungary is the first nation they encounter within the European Union. Thousands crossed the border just ...