László Rajk, an architect and member of Hungary’s democratic opposition before the regime change, has died, the family told MTI. Rajk, a founding member and lawmaker of Hungary’s liberal Alliance of Free Democrats between 1990 and 1996, died on Wednesday, at the age of 70. According to epiteszforum.hu, he died after a short serious illness.
According to the weather forecast, a serious cooldown is coming next week.
Hungary’s annual consumer price index stood at 3.1% in August, down from 3.3% in the previous month, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) said. Headline inflation was lifted by an 8.8% increase in the price of spirits and tobacco and a 5.6% rise in food prices.
Taxpayers in Hungary opted to give one percent of their personal income tax to churches or charities 1.8 million times last year, down from 2.2 million in 2015, business daily Világgazdaság said, citing data from the National Tax Authority (NAV).
Scientific projects were presented in Beijing as part of a series of events held to mark the 70th anniversary of Hungarian-Chinese diplomatic ties.
Wizz Air announced that it will launch new flights to Brussels, Kharkiv and Lviv next year.
The modern-age premiere of the Baroque opera Les Voyages de l’Amour (Amor’s travels), composed by Joseph Bodin de Boismortier in 1736, will be held in Pécs, in southern Hungary, on Sept. 21, the organisers told MTI.
Turkic Council foreign ministers will arrive in Hungary for a meeting before the opening of their European representation in Budapest, the foreign ministry said on Monday.
The Hungarian Meteorology Service has issued second level weather warnings because of thunderstorms for Tuesday afternoon.
Construction of a school has started in Iraqi Kurdistan, financed by the Hungarian state, Nikodemes Dawood Sharaf, Syrian orthodox archbishop of Mosul, told public broadcaster M1.
