A recent survey by the German-Hungarian Chamber of Industry and Commerce reveals that German companies are currently in excellent shape in the country. They are even more optimistic than the already very good results published in April.

Hungarian low-cost airline WizzAir has launched flights to a new destination from Budapest: Agadir in southern Morocco. The airliner operates this flight twice a week with Airbus A320 aircraft. The first flight was fully booked as the plane left the Hungarian capital.

The international real estate consultancy firm Cushman & Wakefield has chosen Budapestas the new venue for its Portfolio Services Center (PSC) department. The new investment, supported by the Hungarian government, is expected to create 250 new jobs.

Disaster management authorities were alerted 3,700 times over the week-end and Monday morning. A spokesman for the National Directorate General for Disaster Management says people were also injured as trees fell on two cars.

The National Bank of Hungary has published its latest competitiveness report in order to analyse, examine and evaluate Hungary’s competitiveness and to explore the possibilities of further progress with over a hundred indicators.

This year, India celebrates the 70th anniversary of its independence from the United Kingdom. On this occasion, the Ambassador of the Republic of India to Hungary, Rahul Chhabra gave an extensive interview to Diplomacy&Trade.

Hungarian citizens have a good perception of the European Union and this view shows a particularly positive trend, according to the ‘Parlemeter 2017’ survey that takes a close look at citizens’ views on EU membership and its benefits,

Japanese tyre manufacturer Bridgestone had its HUF 85 billion forint (EUR 274 million) capacity-expanding investment project officially inaugurated in Tatabánya, west of Budapest this Thursday. It is expected to create 500 new jobs.

Close to 34,000 people visited this year's World Press Photo exhibition in the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. It is an outstanding number as the average attendance in the past years in Hungary was 20-25,000 people.

Celebrations of the 61st anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian revolution and uprising against the Stalinist style regime were attened by less people than usual due to the rain that was falling basically all day Sunday in Hungary.

The new plant of CSABAcast has been officially opened in Apc, E Hungary. It has been equipped with state-of-the-art technology and fleet of machines of the highest quality. Themanufacturing baseserves the expansion of the activities of the company.

Ericsson and Magyar Telekom have held a demonstration of the first 5G New Radio at the Ericsson R&D centre in Budapest on Thursday. The first implementation of its kind in Hungary achieved download speeds of 22 gigabits per second (Gbps).

World-leading global medical technology company, Becton Dickinson's (BD) new plant has been inaugurated in Tatabánya where the manufacturing of research reagents required for the production of medical products will be launched.

Automotive Hungary, the 5th International Exhibition for Automotive Industry Suppliers
has opened at the HUNGEXPO Budapest Fair Center. Programs of the exhibition are built on the thematical points 'Business, Science, Career.”

World renowned Italian movie theme composer Ennio Morricone received a Hungarian state recognition, the Middle Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit in Budapest this Wednesday for popularizing Hungarian music.