Hungary is playing a key role in protecting Europe’s borders, its values and shared Christian traditions just as it did in 1456, the year of the battle of Nándorfehérvár (present-day Belgrade) against the Ottoman Empire, a government official said on Thursday.
One Covid patient died in the past 24 hours, while 71 new infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said. So far 5,583,815 people have received a first jab, while 5,344,123 have been fully vaccinated. The number of active infections has declined to 34,282, while hospitals are treating 62 Covid patients, 10 of whom need respiratory assistance.
Stipulations in Hungary’s recent municipal housing law facilitating a purchase option to tenants renting their units for a shorter term than 25 years are in contravention with the constitution, the Constitutional Court said in a ruling published on Thursday.
The Regional Proscutor’s Office of Investigations of Budapest has launched an investigation into the so-called Pegasus case under suspicion of illegally gathering information.
Hungary is under “continuous attack from Brussels, whatever we decide, European institutions find a way to put some pressure on us and to blackmail us so we change our decisions and not use national competencies,” Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said in an interview with BBC.
Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, told a regular press briefing that tests by the National Public Health Centre (NNK) have identified the presence of the Delta variant of the coronavirus in 14 new cases and the Gamma variant in one new case.
Addressing a regular press briefing, Gergely Gulyás, the prime minister’s chief of staff, said Hungary and the European Union had reached an agreement on Hungary’s post-pandemic recovery plan, but Brussels had “re-opened” the issue after Hungary passed its child protection law.
The referendum on child protection will be held at the end of 2021 or early 2022, and is expected to strengthen Hungary’s position, the prime minister’s chief of staff told a regular press briefing.
The Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) adopted by the government for the period 2021-2027 puts the corporate sector in its focus and is aimed at supporting and enhancing the productivity of SMEs, the innovation and technology ministry said.
A series of tests conducted on Budapest residents older than 60 who have been inoculated with the Sinopharm vaccine has found that 24.2% of the participants have no sufficient protection against Covid-19, the mayor’s office told MTI on Wednesday.
