Hungary will adopt the European Parliament’s system of asset declaration which is effectively identical to the system in use in Germany, Máté Kocsis, parliamentary group leader of the ruling Fidesz party, said on Facebook on Wednesday.
Fully 1,961 new Covid-19 cases were registered last week, while 32 people died in connection with the virus, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday in a round-up of last week’s data.
There is going to be a special lavender harvest event in Létavértes between 9th and 10th July.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán discussed topical international sports matters and Hungarian aid provided to Ukrainian athletes with International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, in Budapest, the PM’s press chief said on Monday. The meeting was also attended by Zsolt Gyulay, head of the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB), Pal Schmitt, Hungary’s former president, Balázs Fürjes, […]
In view of the severe impact of Russia’s war on Ukraine, the time has come to “allow diplomats, rather than generals, to take centre stage”, the head of Hungary’s delegation to the Council of Europe told the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) on Monday. Zsolt Németh, who also heads Hungarian parliament’s foreign affairs […]
A tragic accident took place on Sunday on the free beach of Szigetcsép in Pest County, where a 20-year-old boy drowned in the Danube, the Pest County Search and Rescue Service said on its Facebook page.
On Sunday, the Budapest unit of the Hungarian Children’s Rescue Foundation received an alarm in Pilis from a two-year-old girl who fell into the pool and could not save her life after a long struggle, the foundation said on its Facebook page on Monday.
The National Meteorological Service issued warnings to several counties on Monday due to the heat and the danger of thunderstorms.
Socialist MEP István Ujhelyi on Saturday said he is proposing a meeting with Tibor Navracsics, the minister for regional development, to discuss European Union funding. At a press conference streamed on Facebook, Ujhelyi said he would bring Navracsics the EU’s country-specific recommendations from the past three years in which all of the European Commission’s criticisms […]
Opposition LMP urged the immediate rollout of a 5,000 forint (EUR 12.5) “climate pass” for all public transport in Hungary at a press conference on Saturday. At the press conference streamed on Facebook, LMP spokesman József Gál said the public transport pass, modelled on the one in Germany, could be introduced for a trial period […]
