The opposition parties on Tuesday marked International Women’s Day, and said that women still suffered from discrimination in Hungarian politics and the economy. Socialist co-leader Ágnes Kunhalmi slammed Katalin Novák, the ruling parties’ candidate for president, for supporting a government that “does not do everything in its power to eliminate domestic violence”.
Cardinal Michael Czerny, the Vatican under-secretary for migrants and refugees, on Tuesday arrived in Budapest to meet refugees fleeing the war in Ukraine and the organisations providing for them, as well as Hungarian political and religious officials.
A simplified procedure has been introduced for Ukrainian refugees arriving in Hungary with incomplete or missing documents, the Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County police headquarters said on Tuesday.
By Tuesday morning, 178,894 people entered Hungary at one of the five border crossings with Ukraine, government spokeswoman Alexandra Szentkirályi told a press conference after a meeting of the National Humanitarian Council tasked with assessing the humanitarian situation in connection with the war in Ukraine. So far, the Hungarian disaster management authority has provided accommodation […]
Due to the price cap, gas stations can still buy fuel for resale for HUF 480 (if they can) – Holtankoljak.hu said.
Hungary must prepare for a growing number of refugees from Ukraine, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday and confirmed that weapons will not be transported to Ukraine from the territory of Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will give an address marking Hungary’s national holiday in Kossuth Square in front of the Parliament building in the afternoon of March 15, the state secretary for international communications said on Facebook.
The European Union’s Digital Europe Programme has called for tenders directly from companies and public players in member states, to avail themselves of funding totalling at 300 million euros aimed to support strategic digital capacities, the innovation and technology ministry, the programme’s coordinator in Hungary, said on Monday.
Altogether 150 patients died of a Covid-related illness over the weekend, while 5,852 new coronavirus infections were registered, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Monday.
The 61-year-old Ukrainian woman who arrived in the country by bus from Romania has arrived in Hungary and later, presumably died of exhaustion, writes Magyar Hang, citing Romanian sources.
