Hungary’s 2.5 million pensioners will each receive a bonus of 80,000 forints (EUR 222) next month in addition to their higher pensions, the family affairs minister said after a meeting of the Council of the Elderly on Monday.
Regional cooperation gives central Europe an opportunity to be one of the winners of the coming decades, Lőrinc Nacsa, a spokesman for the co-ruling Christian Democrats, told a conference in Warsaw on Monday.
An agreement on the establishment of a 16 million US dollar Kyrgyz-Hungarian fund to support investments by Hungarian companies will enter into force in the coming week, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in an interview with Czech conservative daily Lidové Noviny, said Brussels was dragging its heels on its decision over EU recovery money, but the funds would arrive sooner or later. In the meantime, Hungary has raised a large amount of money, 4.5 billion euros, on the market with interest of below […]
Hungary’s seasonally-adjusted Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) reached 52.1 points in September, edging down from 55.6 in August, the Hungarian Association of Logistics, Purchasing and Inventory Management (Halpim) said.
Hungary’s government sector ran a 1,112 billion forint (EUR 3.1bn) deficit in the first half of the year, equivalent to 4.2% of GDP during the period, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said.
The prime minister said the government will pay pensioners a 80,000 forint (EUR 222) premium in November.
Aero Vodochody, a Czech manufacturer of light combat and training aircraft, has been acquired by HSC Aerojet, in which the Hungarian investor Kristóf Szalay-Bobrovniczky holds an 80% stake and Czech company Omnipol owns 20%, according to the website of local business daily E15.
Factory gate prices in Hungary increased by an annual 14.4% in August, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said on Thursday.
