eyewitness travel hungary

• Published: 26 February 2018
• ISBN: 9780241306246
• Imprint: Dorling Kindersley
• Format: Hardback
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DK Eyewitness Hungary

The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Hungary.

Experience luxurious spas, wander the historic Castle District in Budapest or explore the immense Hortobágy National Park: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of Hungary with this indispensable travel guide.

Inside DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Hungary: - Over 30 colour maps help you navigate with ease - Simple layout makes it easy to find the information you need - Comprehensive tours and itineraries of Hungary, designed for every interest and budget - Illustrations and floorplans show the inside of the Royal Palace of Gödölló, St Stephen's Basilica, Esztergom Basilica, Pannonhalma Abbey, Budapest's striking Memento Park and more - Colour photographs of vibrant cities, historic churches and castles, pretty rural towns, spectacular architecture, serene countryside and more - Detailed chapters, with area maps, cover Budapest, Szentendre, Esztergom, Northern Transdanubia, Székesfehérvár, the Bakony, Sopron, Pécs, Southern Transdanubia and the Northern Highlands - Historical and cultural context gives you a richer travel experience: learn about Hungary's history, way of life, architecture, diverse cuisine, festivals and events, thermal springs and baths, winemaking tradition and more - Essential travel tips: our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop and sightsee, plus useful phrases, and transport, visa and health information

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Hungary is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you get the most from your visit to Hungary.

DK Eyewitness: winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017.

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Discover all that Hungary has to offer, from luxurious spas and the historic Castle District in Budapest to the immense Hortobágy National Park.

With stunning photography, illustrations, and maps, this easy-to-use guide will lead you straight to the best in Hungary including the Royal Palace of Gödölló and Budapest's striking Memento Park. Those spending time in picturesque Budapest can quickly uncover the best shops and museums, exploring the area with the help of a detailed streetfinder map. Carefully plotted itineraries showcase the rest of Hungary, with insider tips and hotel and restaurant recommendations ensuring you experience the best that this fascinating country has to offer.

With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hungary truly shows you this city as no one else can.

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hungary is your in-depth guide to the very best of Hungary.

With insider tips to make your trip to Hungary a success, our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide is the reference you'll want at your side when exploring the best restaurants, cafes, and hotels in Hungary. Visit the cities of Budapest and Danube, check out a cowboy show, or take a day trip around the countryside. We have the best travel tips for any budget, as well as ideas for fun activities for either the solitary traveler or the family with children.

Discover DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hungary

• Detailed itineraries and "don't miss" destination highlights at a glance.
• Illustrated cutaway 3-D drawings of important sights.
• Floor plans and guided visitor information for major museums.
• Guided walking tours, local drink and dining specialties to try, things to do, and places to eat, drink, and shop by area.
• Area maps marked with sights.
• Insights into history and culture to help you understand the stories behind the sights.
• Hotel and restaurant listings highlight DK Choice special recommendations.

With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Hungary truly shows you this country as no one else can.

Recommended : For an in-depth guidebook to Eastern and Central Europe, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Eastern and Central Europe , which offers the most complete coverage of Eastern and Central Europe, trip-planning itineraries, and more.

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The ideal travel companion, full of insider advice on what to see and do, plus detailed itineraries and comprehensive maps for exploring Hungary. Experience luxurious spas, wander the historic Castle District in Budapest or explore the immense Hortobágy National Park: everything you need to know is clearly laid out within colour-coded chapters. Discover the best of Hungary with this indispensable travel guide. Inside DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Hungary: - Over 30 colour maps help you navigate with ease - Simple layout makes it easy to find the information you need - Comprehensive tours and itineraries of Hungary , designed for every interest and budget - Illustrations and floorplans show the inside of the Royal Palace of Gödölló, St Stephen's Basilica, Esztergom Basilica, Pannonhalma Abbey, Budapest's striking Memento Park and more - Colour photographs of vibrant cities, historic churches and castles, pretty rural towns, spectacular architecture, serene countryside and more - Detailed chapters, with area maps, cover Budapest, Szentendre, Esztergom, Northern Transdanubia, Székesfehérvár, the Bakony, Sopron, Pécs, Southern Transdanubia and the Northern Highlands - Historical and cultural context gives you a richer travel experience: learn about Hungary's history, way of life, architecture, diverse cuisine, festivals and events, thermal springs and baths, winemaking tradition and more - Essential travel tips: our expert choices of where to stay, eat, shop and sightsee, plus useful phrases, and transport, visa and health information DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Hungary is a detailed, easy-to-use guide designed to help you get the most from your visit to Hungary. DK Eyewitness: winner of the Top Guidebook Series in the Wanderlust Reader Travel Awards 2017. "No other guide whets your appetite quite like this one" - The Independent Planning a city break? Try our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Budapest . About DK Eyewitness Travel: DK's highly visual Eyewitness guides show you what others only tell you, with easy-to-read maps, tips, and tours to inform and enrich your holiday. DK is the world's leading illustrated reference publisher, producing beautifully designed books for adults and children in over 120 countries.

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Top EU court fines Hungary $216 million for flouting asylum law

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses the media after receiving the results of the European Parliamentary elections in Budapest, Hungary, Monday, June 10, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

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BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union’s top court ordered Hungary to pay a fine of 200 million euros ($216 million) on Thursday for persistently breaking the bloc’s asylum rules despite a previous European Court of Justice ruling, plus an additional 1 million euros for every day it fails to comply going forward.

Hungary had not implemented a 2020 ruling from top EU judges in Luxembourg, the ECJ wrote in a press release. “That failure, which consists in deliberately avoiding the application of a common EU policy as a whole, constitutes an unprecedented and extremely serious infringement of EU law.”

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán slammed the ruling as “outrageous and unacceptable.”

“It seems that illegal migrants are more important to the Brussels bureaucrats than their own European citizens,” he wrote on the social media platform X.

Hungary’s anti-immigrant government has taken a hard line on people entering the country since well over 1 million people entered Europe in 2015, most of them fleeing conflict in Syria.

The case concerns changes Hungary made to its asylum system in the wake of that crisis, when some 400,000 people passed through Hungary on their way to Western Europe. Hungary built fences protected by razor wire on its southern borders with Serbia and Croatia and a pair of transit zones for holding asylum seekers on its border with Serbia. Those transit zones have since closed.

The measures were part of Orban’s increasingly strict anti-immigration policies and the extreme minimization of Hungary’s asylum system.

Back in 2020, the ECJ found that Budapest’s policies had restricted access to international protection, unlawfully detained asylum applicants and failed to observe their right to stay in Hungary while their application went through the full due process, the court recalled on Thursday.

The transit zones were closed in 2020, shortly after the first ECJ ruling.

But the European Commission, which is responsible for monitoring the 27 EU member states’ compliance with their shared laws, took the view that Budapest had still not complied and requested the European Court of Justice to fine Hungary, the ECJ said Thursday.

After the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in 2020, the Hungarian government also pushed through a law forcing people seeking international protection to travel to Belgrade or Kyiv to apply for a travel permit at its embassies there to enter Hungary. Only once back could they file their applications.

The European Commission took Hungary to the European Court of Justice over the law, insisting that the country had failed to fulfil its obligations under the 27-nation’s blocs rules. The rules oblige all member countries to have common procedures for granting asylum.

People have the right to apply for asylum or other forms of international protection if they fear for their safety in their home countries or face the prospect of persecution based on their race, religion, ethnic background, gender or other discrimination.

Samuel Petrequin in Brussels contributed to this report.

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Clearing a Final Hurdle, Dutch Leader Is Poised to Become NATO Chief

Mark Rutte, the Netherlands’ prime minister, is expected to be elected as the head of the military alliance after Romania’s candidate dropped out.

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Mark Rutte, the departing prime minister of the Netherlands who has guided more than $3 billion in Dutch military support to Ukraine since 2022, on Thursday clinched the last assurance he needed to become NATO’s next secretary general.

On Thursday, President Klaus Iohannis of Romania dropped his bid to lead NATO , making it all but certain that Mr. Rutte, 57, would be formally elected to a four-year term at the helm of the Atlantic alliance.

That could take place as soon as next week, ahead of a high-level NATO summit in Washington in July. The Netherlands is a founding member, and Mr. Rutte would be the fourth Dutch official to become the organization’s top diplomat.

Even if that happens, he would not immediately assume responsibility for the 32-nation alliance. Mr. Rutte, who has been the leader of the Netherlands since 2010, remains prime minister in the country’s transitional government, and a diplomat who requested anonymity in line with protocol, said the current NATO secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, was for now expected to stay until his term ends in October.

Mr. Rutte has increasingly echoed a main NATO message that supporting Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia is vital for preserving democracy and national sovereignty across the alliance.

“This war is not simply about defending the freedom of the Ukrainian people; it is also about protecting the freedom and security of the Netherlands,” Mr. Rutte is quoted as saying at the top of his government’s website . “So we will not abandon those most in need.”

Still, Mr. Rutte is not seen as unwilling to deal with Russia or with Moscow’s few allies in NATO, as had been the case with some candidates from Eastern Europe or the Baltic States who also had expressed interest in the top job.

“It is a consensus organization, so you have 32 allies that you need to bring on board,” said Camille Grand, a former NATO assistant secretary general who is now at the European Council on Foreign Relations. “If you’re perceived as leaning toward one particular geography of the alliance, or too dovish or too hawkish, then it makes things complicated.”

“There was a concern that it was important to have someone who is perceived as in the middle ground of the alliance, rather than on the edges of the debate,” Mr. Grand said. “So he was ticking all the boxes.”

Mr. Grand knew and worked with Mr. Rutte when they overlapped at NATO headquarters in Brussels. “He was always pretty mainstream in the room,” Mr. Grand said. “He was never the guy who was difficult on anything, but always very supportive of NATO, sometimes even to the point of criticizing his peers when they were not loyal enough.”

Mr. Rutte’s criticism of Hungary in 2021 was seen as almost costing him the top NATO job.

Hungary is both a member of NATO and of the European Union, and its leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban, has exasperated officials in both organizations for imposing some authoritarian policies and maintaining relations with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. In 2021, Mr. Orban’s government restricted L.G.B.T content in the media and schools, eliciting “deep concern” from E.U. leaders and prompting Mr. Rutte to declare that Hungary “has no business being in the European Union anymore.”

That set off three years of acrimony between the two men, and led to suggestions by Mr. Orban that he would not support Mr. Rutte’s candidacy as the NATO chief, whose election requires unanimous consent within the alliance. But Mr. Orban backed down last week as part of an agreement that Hungary would not provide or otherwise support NATO efforts to continue sending military aid to Ukraine for the duration of the war.

In a letter to Mr. Orban on Tuesday, Mr. Rutte said he would respect that agreement “in a possible future capacity as NATO secretary general.”

But Mr. Rutte stopped just short of apologizing for his remarks about Hungary.

“I also took note that some remarks I made in 2021 as prime minister of the Netherlands have caused dissatisfaction in Hungary,” Mr. Rutte wrote in the letter, dated June 18. “My priority in a possible future capacity as NATO secretary general will be to maintain unity and treat allies with the same level of understanding and respect.”

NATO allies who backed Mr. Rutte’s bid have sought to lock down support ahead of the July meeting in Washington. Mr. Iohannis, the Romanian president, dropped out of the running after Mr. Orban’s concession made it clear that Mr. Rutte’s bid had widespread support. On Thursday, Mr. Iohannis endorsed Mr. Rutte and announced that Romania would send one of its urgently needed Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine.

Mr. Rutte announced last July that he would not seek re-election in the Netherlands after his government was split over the issue of Dutch asylum for migrants and refugees.

In October, he told Dutch radio that he found the job of NATO’s civilian chief “very interesting,” and by February, he had secured the backing of the United States and of European powers.

Mr. Rutte is not married , lives in the same house in The Hague that he bought as a student with friends, and often rides his bike to work.

He is a fan of classical music and of U2, and his favorite film is the 1979 movie “Hair,” according to a 2015 profile in the English-language Dutch News.

Lara Jakes , based in Rome, reports on diplomatic and military efforts by the West to support Ukraine in its war with Russia. She has been a journalist for nearly 30 years. More about Lara Jakes

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