Gergely Gulyás, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, has praised Hungary’s central bank for its “excellent” handling of a “strong speculative attack” against the forint, which he said had been the reason behind the weakening of the national currency to record low levels of 360-370 against the euro. “The shape of the Hungarian economy does…
Hungary’s government is set to approve Hungary’s biggest economic stimulus plan since the transition to democracy, the head of the Prime Minister’s Office said over the weekend. The package will be enough to finance the government’s coronavirus response measures and “the hundreds and thousands of billions needed to restart the economy”, Gergely Gulyás told a…
Hungary’s government has ordered “many” coronavirus tests and will take steps to accelerate laboratory procedures, chief medical officer Cecília Müller told a press conference after a meeting of the operative board coordinating the epidemic response. Answering a question about coronavirus testing protocols, Müller said that the number of test laboratories has been “significantly increased”, noting…
Lorries crossing Hungary to and from neighbouring countries will have to use specially assigned routes and designated fuel stations before departing the country at particular crossings along the Serbian, Ukrainan and Romanian borders, a government official said. The lorries will also have to carry special permits, Tamás Menczer, parliamentary state secretary for communications told parliament’s…
Researchers at Hungary’s National Centre for Public Health (NNK) have become the first in the country to successfully isolate the new coronavirus that causes the Covid-19 disease, the chief medical officer said. hirdetés hirdetés The breakthrough will allow scientists to begin developing a vaccine against the virus and to test various therapies, Cecilia Müller told…
Finance Minister Mihály Varga urged the World Bank to concentrate on problems that lead to migration at the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington DC. hirdetés hirdetés “The World Bank, which has made it its mission to overcome global poverty, could play a decisive role in the…
Magyar Nemzet guest columnist Samu Csinta unravels the Romanian government crisis in the paper’s Monday online edition. hirdetés hirdetés The most toxic government in recent history, the Chernobyl of Romania, has been relegated to history. These are just some of the qualifiers the Romanian national press decorated the incumbent government with, giving a clear opinion about the performance…
In our continuous quest to serve you, dear reader, we are now going to help you avoid confusion or, worse, a grave mistake in the future. hirdetés hirdetés Those not particularly knowledgeable about East-Central Europe have a penchant for making an all too common mistake: confusing the Hungarian capital Budapest with the Romanian capital Bucharest. While this is…
Angry Romanians break into the cemetery. hirdetés hirdetés RMDSZ Senator Barna Tánczos has announced on June 5, that Hungarians will protest against the inauguration of the illegally erected parcel by forming a human chain one hour ahead of the ceremony announced by the Dărmănești Mayor’s Office. On June 6, 2019, at 4.00 p.m. several hundred…
This is the story of how an unsolved border dispute between two settlements (Csíkszentmárton / Sânmartin Ciuc and Dărmănești) turned abruptly for the worse when the mayor of Dărmănești took unilateral action based on questionable documents. It shows how ethnic conflict in the region can provoke tensions that then lead to irreversible impact on both…