Hungary’s population decline slowed in the first six months of the year as the number of births increased by 5.5% and the number of deaths decreased also by 5.5% compared with the same period last year, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in a regular interview to public broadcaster Kossuth Rádió, said the situation regarding fatalities from the novel coronavirus epidemic was improving in Hungary.
Defence Minister Tibor Benkő took delivery of the first four Leopard 2A4HU battle tanks at the army base in Tata, in northern Hungary.
The economic cabinet has proposed expanding student loans offered by the state-owned provider to cover funding for vocational training and adult education starting from the spring semester of the next academic year, Finance Minister Mihály Varga said.
The Socialist Party is initiating a referendum on the status and protection of public beaches at Hungarian lakes, the head of the party’s board said in Fonyód, at Lake Balaton.
The number of registered coronavirus infections in Hungary has increased by 19 to 4,366 over the past 24 hours, koronavirus.gov.hu said on Wednesday morning.
Hungary has gained enough experience in the space industry over the past years to be in a position to become a key player in the sector, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign affairs and trade minister, said.
The Hungarian Meteorology Service has issued first and second level weather warnings for Tuesday afternoon because of thunderstorms, hail and stormy wind.
Italy’s right-wing League leader Matteo Salvini on Sunday released a text message he received from Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán attending a European Union summit in Brussels in which Orbán assured him that Hungary was “on Italy’s side”.
Justice Minister Judit Varga and Zbigniew Ziobro, her Polish counterpart, signed an agreement in Warsaw concerning cooperation between Hungary’s Mádl Ferenc Institute of legal comparative studies and Poland’s International Law Institute.
