A fun and entertaining charity event, which also provided a magical spectacle, took place in Budapest's Heroes' Square on Saturday evening in the spirit of Halloween. It was for the first time in 2009, Halloween jack-o'-lanterns populated the Hungarian capital’s Heroes' Square, where anyone could drop off their home-made jack-o'-lanterns to decorate the square for […]
AMCO Packaging Technology and Consultation Ltd., a Hungarian manufacturer of GreenFill biodegradable space-filling foam for use in boxes, will double its capacity to 100,000 liters in November, the company told the state news agency MTI. The statement drew attention to the serious environmental impact of petroleum-derived polystyrene foam fillers, noting that demand for environmentally friendly […]
Industrial producer prices rose by 42.7% on average in September 2022 in Hungary, compared to one year earlier. Domestic output prices were 66.2% and non-domestic output prices 30.7% higher, the Central Statistical Office reports. The higher rate of increase in domestic output prices was owing to the larger proportion of the energy industry there, where […]
Shell Hungary Plc. will restructure the operation of another 17 petrol stations: from November 2, these will be available only to its contracted corporate partners with euroShell fuel cards, the company said on its website on Friday. According to the statement, Shell is converting in this process five of its 193 service stations in Budapest […]
The National Musculoskeletal Institute/National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy (ORFI) will implement 1.3 billion HUF worth of laboratory, imaging and functional movement analysis diagnostics with the support of the European Union in the framework of the Operational Program for the Development of Human Resources (EFOP), the head of the institution, Gyula Poór announced in Budapest […]
The Hungarian postal service company Magyar Posta is temporarily suspending the operation of 366 post offices in 210 municipalities to reduce energy consumption. At the same time, the company announced on Friday a collective redundancy plan affecting 300 employees in management and service areas, the state news agency MTI reports. Magyar Posta said that in […]
In September 2022, 7,673 children were born and 10,016 people died according to preliminary data. Thus, the natural decrease was almost 40% higher than a year before. In the last twelve months, i.e. between October 2021 and September 2022, the number of births diminished by 2.6%, that of deaths by 8.1% and the number of […]
Energy procurement and security is yet another matter where the Hungarian government and Brussels are taking diverging paths. Budapest has firmly rejected proposals for a mandatory joint EU gas procurement and a solidarity mechanism at the Energy Council in Luxembourg this week and the Cabinet of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is dead set against a […]
A lion figure made of hundreds of thousands of Lego blocks were placed on Clark Ádám Square on Thursday morning, Budapest Transport Center (BKK) told the state news agency MTI. They wrote that the lion is an important symbol for the people of Budapest, and the stone lions on the bridgehead of the Chain Bridge […]
Students, parents, teachers and their supporters formed live chain of about ten kilometers in the Hungarian capital Thursday morning at the initiative of the Unified Student Front in support of Hungarian teachers’ fight for decent pay and better working conditions, state news agency MTI reports. Katalin Törley, founder of the Tanítanék ['I would teach'] movement, […]
Germany-based SCHOTT’s project to build a new production hub for glass prefillable syringes (PFS) is going to plan as evidenced by the launch of the construction celebrated at a groundbreaking event in Lukácsháza in Vas County, W Hungary. With the EUR 76 million investment, up to 120 newly created jobs will be available. The German […]
Three-quarters of Hungarians say the war in Ukraine and high energy prices should accelerate the green transition, according to the latest yearly European Investment Bank (EIB) Climate Survey. After a challenging year in which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sparked an ongoing energy crisis and accelerated inflation all over Europe, and a summer marked by record […]
A new Thyssenkrupp engineering development office was inaugurated in Szeged, SE Hungary reflecting the German behemoth’s effort to intensify related activities as part of its Hungarian operation. Up to 65 automotive engineers can look forward to be hired in the near future in three locations, Szeged being the flagship venue of the development. Being among […]
BME Suborbitals, a team of engineering candidates from the Budapest University of Technology (BME), finished 5th in their category and 9th in the overall ranking at Europe's most prestigious international rocket competition, the European Rocketry Challenge. The competition, organized by the Portugal Space Agency (Agência Espacial Portuguesa) and the European Space Agency, was held in […]
BT (British Telecommunications) has announced the signing of a new agreement to relocate its operations in Debrecen to a state-of-the-art office in Great Forest city park, Forest Offices. Around 500 employees based in Hungary’s second biggest city will move to the new location in 2023. The new office space will reflect BT’s “smart working” principles […]
