Hungary has taken over the rotating presidency of the Council of the Notariats of the European Union (CNUE) for 2021.

Bilateral ties between Hungary and Romania are “full of untapped potential” that could include cross-border interregional cooperation, economic and energy cooperation as well as cooperation with the central European Visegrad Group, Hunor Kelemen, the head of Romania’s ethnic Hungarian RMDSZ party, told the daily Magyar Nemzet.

Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó inaugurated a Hungarian House and an honorary consulate in Croatia’s port city of Rijeka.

Hungarian oil and gas company Mol is sending 50 living and 6 sanitary containers to serve as temporary accommodation for those whose houses were damaged in recent earthquakes in central Croatia, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said.

Claudia Plattner has been appointed Director General Information Systems as of 1 July 2021.

EMA’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended updating the product information for Comirnaty to clarify that each vial contains 6 doses of the vaccine.

The number of detections of illegal border crossings along the EU’s external borders fell 13% last year to around 124 000, in large part due to the impact of COVID-19 restrictions put in place by various countries, according to preliminary figures collected by Frontex. This was the lowest number of illegal border crossings since 2013.

Central and Eastern Europe’s unambitious and vague Green Recovery plans would perpetuate the unsustainable status-quo.

Portugal has taken over the rotating presidency of the European Union amid “difficult times”, when the joint European procurement of the coronavirus vaccine is “falling short of expectations”, Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said on Facebook.