Black market sales accounted for about 6.5 percent of Hungary’s cigarette market last year, well under the 8.6 percent rate for the European Union as a whole, data compiled by consultancy KMPG cited by the National Tax and Customs Authority (NAV) show, business daily Világgazdaság said.
Pierre Richard, Michael Nyman, Udo Kier and Magda Vasaryova will be special guests at this year’s Budapest Classics Film Marathon held between September 4 and 11, the organiser said over the weekend. The prominent open-air international film festival’s focus will be on the connection between film and music, the Hungarian National Film Fund told MTI.
Police have arrested suspected members of an international drug trafficking network in Budapest, the national police headquarters said on its website.
Warm weather continues in the last few days of August – says the Hungarian Meteorology Service.
Hungary’s public debt stood at 68.7% of GDP at the end of June, down from 70.0% of GDP at the end of March, the National Bank of Hungary said concerning preliminary data of Hungary’s financial accounts.
Some 65,000 people participated in programmes of this year’s Arts and Crafts Fair traditionally held in Budapest’s Castle District around the August 20 national holiday.
The Hungarian director Réka Szabó’s documentary “The Euphoria of Being” has won the grand prize of the Critics’ Week of the Locarno Film Festival, the Hungarian National Film Fund told MTI.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo expressed his government’s greetings to Hungary marking the August 20 national holiday.
Bangladeshi Siamese twins conjoined at the head who were successfully separated by a team of Hungarian doctors early in August have years of rehabilitation ahead of them, the physicians who headed the series of medical procedures, dubbed “Operation Freedom”, said at an update of the girls’ condition in Budapest over the weekend.
The Hungarian Meteorology Service has issued first and second level weather warnings for Wednesday afternoon because of heatwave and thunderstorms.
