Agricultural development projects worth over 20 billion forints (EUR 58m) are starting in southern-central Hungary, including irrigation and infrastructure development, the minister of agriculture said.
Rental fees are falling nationwide, with prices down by an average 10%, at around 150,000 forints (EUR 433) in Budapest and 100,000-110,000 in university cities, an expert of real estate site ingatlan.com said.
Budapest’s municipal council is launching a city diplomacy academy in the autumn, Gergely Karácsony, the city’s mayor, said.
The federation of Hungarian Jewish communities (Mazsihisz) and Budapest’s Jewish community BZSH have decided to close down synagogues in the capital for two weeks, after a participant in a children’s camp in the city may have come in contact with the novel coronavirus, mazsihisz.hu reported.
A consortium consisting of Amitis Engineering, Ferrobeton and FM Projekt has developed a modular concrete pier usable on rivers for 1.57 billion forints (EUR 4.5m), consortium leader Amitis said in a statement.
The number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has increased by 13 to 4,448 over the past 24 hours, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday morning.
Monday will be mostly sunny; however, rain and stormy wind are also expected. The lowest temperatures will be around 13-19 Celsius degrees and the highest will be between 26-31 Celsius degrees.
Half of the compensation payment stipulated by court for Roma who used to be segregated at school in rural northern Hungary was transferred to the beneficiaries on Friday morning and the other half will be paid within a month, the prime minister’s commissioner László Horváth, a lawmaker of ruling Fidesz, said.
A demonstration was held in Budapest on Friday evening in protest against the dismissal of the editor-in-chief of news website index.hu, and for media freedom.
On Friday, three leading editors of Index, Attila Tóth-Szenesi, Veronika Munk, and János Haász have initiated the termination of their employment at Index, they were followed by more than 70 journalists.
