The government has decided to set up an operative body to make proposals for central measures to tackle the impacts of the current droughts, the agriculture ministry quoted the minister, István Nagy, as saying, noting that nearly half of Europe was affected, while Hungary was facing a “drought of historical proportion”.
Opposition Jobbik is launching a signature drive in protest against “the government’s austerity measures”, the conservative party’s deputy leader Dániel Z. Kárpát told a press conference. It was “unacceptable”, he said, that the government “should make extra profits in a crisis”.
A cold front is taking shape in the forecast fields, and the current precipitation forecasts are quite encouraging – the National Meteorological Service informed on its Facebook page. Examining the threshold value of 10 mm, it is clear that “the dice have turned”, as there is a greater chance east of the Danube on the […]
The number of people vaccinated is 6,413,420, of which 6,200,225 have received the second, 3,888,311 the third, and 315,917 have already received the fourth vaccine against the coronavirus – last week’s aggregated data was announced by koronavirus.gov on Wednesday. en.
The 10th PET Cup (PET Kupa) will be held to clean up an 86km section of the River Tisza and its floodplains in north-eastern Hungary between July 29 and August 7, the cup’s organisers said on Wednesday.
Fully 14,402 new Covid-19 cases were registered last week, while 54 people died in connection with the virus, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday in a round-up of last week’s data.
Opposition LMP has said it is turning to President Katalin Novák with the request that she facilitate cooperation with the government on addressing the issues of increasingly long droughts, dried-up lakes and water-related problems faced by farmers in Hungary.
It contains aflatoxin above the limit value.
Fire broke out in Hajdúböszörmény, Arad street.
The Defence Council comprising cabinet members and headed by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was set up on Tuesday.
