Life on the Periphery: Inside Budapest’s Forgotten Neighborhoods
What does life look like outside of the city centre? @negynegynegy took a look at the edge of Budapest, where loads of people live without even the most basic facilities, but still manage to get by. Meet the people who chose to live in these areas, even though it meant fighting for basic amenities like […]
Voices from the Margins
Today, many roma communities still live in segregated settlements in Hungary—where poverty, lack of opportunity, and systemic neglect shape entire lives from birth. @negynegynegy has met the team of BAGázs, an association working directly with families to provide education, employment opportunities, and a path toward independence—proving that change is possible when someone finally invests in […]
Hungary’s Elections: The Generational Breaking Point
The 2026 Hungarian elections will be the first time a generation born and raised during the Fidesz and Viktor Orbán era will be voting. Polls suggest they’ll probably swing the result in the next election, partly because turnout is expected to be really high and they’re generally against Orbán. @negynegynegy had a chat with young […]
Can simple compost help us cool cities down? This Budapest initiatives demonstrates, how
What’s the point of green spaces in cities? In Budapest, Mark Richards, compost master in the Aurora Climate Garden, has a strong opinion on this: those spaces should be community-centred, focused on not what looks good, but on what actually helps the environment, and play the long game. For his project, it all started with […]
The struggle of a town Pilismarót and its locals, against a multinational company
The story of Pilismarót shows how a united community can stand up to a multinational company and win. In 2019, the village’s mayor secretly approved a gravel mine project just 500 meters from homes, later designating the area a “priority development zone” during the COVID-19 pandemic. Outraged residents forced his resignation. They organised a strong […]
Fight for Housing Between Climate Change and Inequality
In Recsk, a small village in northern Hungary, a mudslide occurred in mid-June 2023, when soil extracted from the local mine was washed down onto houses during a heavy thunderstorm. For a long time, it was believed that the victims would receive 500 million forints in government aid, based on a government decree signed by […]
This Hungarian artist challenger the fake Instagram world
With her hobby, Renya Biacsics has created a true pop art culture: on her Instagram, we can see funny, witty everyday scenes drawn in her signature style, most of which are based on real events. Her satirical illustrations appear online, on the walls of cafés and bars, or even on clothing — always with refreshing […]
Data is not free for the environment: technology and climate change
In arid and climate-stressed Spain, one of the groups calling for a moratorium on new data centres calls itself Tu Nube Seca Mi Río – Spanish for “your cloud is drying my river”. In recent years, Spain has become a leading destination for tech giants to set up their data centres in Europe. Madrid even […]
Inside the home of a philosopher and toy robot collector
Berényi Csaba is a philosopher and DJ. His decades-long passion is collecting toy robots and he has a huge collection in his apartment. In the past, he hunted exclusively at second-hand markets, but nowadays he also searches online for the pieces he wants. For this video, he welcomed journalists into his home to showcase his […]
No Grace for Grape: an epidemic that’s wiping out Hungarian vineyards
The flavescence dorée phytoplasma is one of the most dangerous pathogens of the grapevine, reducing yields by 20–50%, and the number of infected plants increases tenfold each year. This year, the number of infected areas has increased explosively, and entire plantations have perished irreversibly. The vineyard of Zoltán Simon has also been affected by the […]
