The governing parties passed the country's 2017 budget in Hungarian Parliament this Monday and it was also the governing parties only that voted for the nationalization of all schools that are now managed by local governments.
The governing parties passed the country's 2017 budget in Hungarian Parliament this Monday and it was also the governing parties only that voted for the nationalization of all schools that are now managed by local governments.
Vörösmarty Square in the downtown area of the Hungarian capital is the venue of the 87th Budapest Book Week and its accompanying event, the 15th Children Book Days. Visitors have the opportunity to look at the selections of some 200 publishers.
The Embassy of India in Budapest, in cooperation with the Hungarian representatives of several prominent yoga schools, organizes the Ganges-Danube Indian Cultural Festival, a variety of programmes to raise awareness of a healthy and conscious lifestyle.
'Touch', a painting by Hungarian artist Attila Szûcs, was sold for GBP 16,250 az Sotheby's n London this week. The amount, which was over four times the starting price, is the highest paid for the work of a Hungarian contemporary artist.
In the event of a terrorist threat or attack, a “state of terrorist threat” can be declared in Hungary Also, certain laws can be bypassed and exceptional measures implemented. That is according to the latest amendment to Hungary's Basic Law.
Migrants in a guarded center in Békéscsaba, SE Hungary, have demanded - in messages written on bedsheets - that they should be allowed to leave the center and they believe the processing of their asylum requests are too slow.
Hungary's national football team lost 2-0 to host Germany in a friendly game that served as a prepration match for both teams for the European Football (soccer) Championship that will be held from June 11 to July 10 in various cities in France.
The National Association of Cemetery Maintainers and Operators in Hungary held its First National Gravedigger Contest in the public cemetery of the city of Debrecen. Competitors had to dig a grave of 2 meters long, 0.8 meters wide and 1.6 meters deep.
The OECD projected hardly a month ago that the Hungarian economy will grow by 2.5% year on year in 2016. However, this forecast has been cut sharply to 2016 in the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook published this Wednesday.
At the invitation of Anita Herczegh, the wife of Hungarian President János Áder, a group of members (about 30 people) of the Diplomatic Spouses Budapest, took part in a journey to the southeastern Hungarian town of Gyula.
An extraordinary phenomenon has been discovered in Debrecen: the fifth fundamental force in nature. Laboratories worldwide will attempt to reproduce the results achieved in the Institute for Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA Atomki).
The general assembly of the northwest Hungarian town of Sopron decided last week to ban smoking in the downtown area. According to ikvahirek.eu news portal, it has not been finalised when the regulation enters into effect.
Gripen fighter planes of the Hungarian military have returned to their home base in Kecskemét from NATO's Tiger Meet international exercise in Spain. The Hungarian contingent included five aircraft and 50 soldiers in personnel.
At the 2016 World Championship in Spaghetti Bridge Building in Budapest, The winner in the Bridge category was the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca from Romania, while the Support category title went to the Technical University of Riga from Latvia.
Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov paid a one-day visit to Budapest to have a discussion with Hungarian politicians. Several analysts believe that the real purpose of the visit was to drive a wedge in EU's and NATO's unity.
