2018 in Hungary

Incumbents

• President: János Áder
• Prime Minister: Viktor Orbán
• Speaker of the National Assembly: László Kövér

  Events

April

• April 8 - Viktor Orbán's Fidesz–KDNP alliance, Wins the Hungarian 2018 elections in a Landslide preserving its two-thirds majority. Orbán and Fidesz campaigned primarily on the issues of immigration and foreign meddling, and the election was seen as a victory for right-wing populism in Europe.

  May

• May 16 - George Soros Open Society Foundations announce they will move its office from Budapest to Berlin amid Hungarian government interference.

  June

• June 2 - After its poor election performance, the opposition party Together is dissolved.
• June 20 - Hungarian Parliament has pass the "Stop Soros law", for anyone "facilitating illegal immigration" will face a year in jail.
• June - two former Jobbik MPs László Toroczkai and Dóra Dúró form their own nationalist party Our Home Movement.

  October

• October - A government decree signed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban came into force, removing gender studies from the list of master's programmes. The subject will be banned at Hungarian universities.

  December

• December 3 - Central European University announced it would cease operations in Hungary and relocate to Vienna, after the Hungarian government's refusal to sign an agreement allowing it to continue operations in Hungary.

  Predicted and scheduled events

Deaths