The prime ministers of the Visegrád Four (V4) group of countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) have signed a statement highlighted the group's role in advancing European integration in its member countries.

Hungary plans to introduce electronic road toll before phasing out the flat-rate toll in the following years, local daily Népszabadság reported on Monday. The vehicles likely to be hit the hardest will be the biggest trucks.

Péter Lakatos, a photographer contracted with the Hungarian News Agency MTI, has won 1st prize in the spot news singles category of the 54th World Press Photo contest, selected from the best photos made in 2010.

Judit Virág is one of the most acknowledged art-dealers and art historians. Her establishment, the Virág Judit Gallery and Auction House, is one of the bests that focuses on 19th and 20th century art and the high period of Zsolnay porcelain.

Hungary is going ahead with plans to upgrade equipment for its PRT mission in Afghanistan in spite of a call by President Hamid Karzai to demobilise the NATO reconstruction teams, the daily Népszabadság daily said on Thursday.

The Roma (gypsy) population and their place in society are the main themes of an exhibition of pictures by four Hungarian Roma women painters that opened in the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on Tuesday evening.

Six new hotels (including three-, four- and five-star hotels and an apartment hotel) with 400 rooms are due to be inaugurated in Budapest this year, real estate consultant Colliers International announced on Wednesday.

American Airlines and Malev will launch a daily direct Budapest-New York flight on April 6, the vice president for the region at the American air carrier, Kurt Stache announced at a press conderence in Budapest on Tuesday.

"Airplane Gizi", a veteran female thief in her 85th year, has been caught again, in Bicske, west of Budapest. She received her nickname in the 1950s for utilizing the then exisitng domestic flights in Hungary for burglaries nationwide.

In his annual state-of-the-nation address, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said on Monday that Hungary has embarked on a process of renewal, and each year up to 2014 will be a staging post towards sustained growth.

Most Hungarians in Egypt have left the country by now, the embassy is not aware of any Hungarian citizens gotten into trouble in connection with the violent anti-government riots there, Ambassador Péter Kveck said on Friday.

As with all origin legends, this is the truth about the conveyor belt, the mass manifacturing and Tin Lizzie. All in all, the flagship innovations of the modern time civilization derive from of one single basis: they all have Hungarian origin. Yesterday was the 130th birth anniversary of the father of these innovations.

Some would say mass manufacturing was born in Hungary, for if was József Galamb who not only created Ford's Model T, or "Tin Lizzie" but was elemental in introducing the conveyor belt to production lines. Galamb was born 130 years ago.

A Hungarian culinary week is being held at the European Parliament in currently, featuring traditional Hungarian dishes, such as pea soup, 'székelykáposzta' (sauerkraut stew) and 'Somlói galuska' (Somló spnge cake).

How Europe is being thought of in Hungary and how Europeans are seen through the eyes of a Russian artist. This is the theme of a unique photo exhibition opened at the Ministry of National Resources in Budapest.