During the communist era, travel options were limited in Hungary and Central Europe, which meant Lake Balaton became the region’s most popular vacation destination. Now, with the world gripped by the ...

FENEKPUSZTA, Hungary, March 11 (Reuters) - Imre Vida descends from the ancient people who once fished Hungary's Balaton, one of Europe's largest lakes, in boats hewn from oak trunks and who crafted ...

The Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over Lake Balaton in western Hungary. With a surface area of around 600 sq km and a length of around 78 km, this freshwater lake is the largest in central ...

LAKE BALATON, Hungary -- On the busiest day of the summer at Balaton, the biggest lake in Central and Eastern Europe, around 500 boats with thousands of crew members roast under the hot sun, while ...

Lake Balaton, also known as the Plattensee, is a popular vacation destination. Photo: GettyImages/Tamas Perlaki Many know Lake Balaton, also known as the Plattensee–yet this part of Hungary remains a ...

SZIGLIGET, Hungary — Fishermen in small, wooden boats drift among the reeds and placid waters of Lake Balaton, the largest lake in Central Europe and one of Hungary’s natural treasures. Like many of ...

During the last decade, human activity has considerably increased in the area of Lake Balaton. Agricultural production has grown and tourism has increased threefold. At present, much more nitrogen and ...

Lake Balaton, central Europe's biggest freshwater lake and one of Hungary's biggest tourist attractions, is shrinking - prompting warnings of an ecological and economic catastrophe that may be linked ...

As Hungary's central bank braces to be the first in the European Union to hike its interest rates since the pandemic, nowhere are the inflationary pressures that are building more tangible than in the ...