The number of nights spent by domestic guests at commercial accommodation establishments (hotels, boarding houses, camping sites, bungalow complexes and community hostels) in Hungary increased – mainly due to the low base caused by the introduction of pandemic restrictions – more than two-and-a-half-fold in November 2021 compared to the same month of 2020. However, it was 36% […]
The ESSCA School of Management, was founded in 1909 in Angers, in France. Besides the biggest French towns (Angers, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux, Lyon, Paris and Strasbourg), the School also has two campuses abroad: one in Shanghai, China and the other one in the Hungarian capital. The Budapest Campus offers professional business education and humanistic values in […]
The government has decided on a food price freeze, with the prices of six products to be fixed from February 1 at the same level as on October 15 last year, the prime minister announced on Wednesday. Viktor Orbán said following the cabinet meeting that the government had decided to intervene in the price of […]
Hungarian oil and gas enterprise MOL Group has signed an agreement to acquire Normbenz Hungary Ltd, which operates 79 service stations in Hungary under the Lukoil brand. MOL has also signed an agreement with Grupa Lotos SA and PKN Orlen to acquire 417 service stations in Poland. The Lukoil agreement announced today follows an acquisition […]
Around a hundred artists from four continents will perform at the 14th Budapest International Circus Festival between January 12 to 17 at the Budapest Capital Circus. The event starts with a conference this Tuesday. Hungary will be the focus of the circus world for the next week, as Budapest hosts the most prestigious international circus […]
President János Áder has called the parliamentary elections for April 3, 2022, which is the earliest possible date for the election to be held, according to the law. As the state news agency MTI reports, the deadlines related to the election are set by decree of the Minister of Justice after the election is set, […]
After a complete refurbishment taking two years, Hungexpo Budapest, owned by the French group GL events, a worldwide provider of integrated solutions and services for events, reopened in September this year to welcome exhibitors and visitors to the Hungarian capital’s fully renewed Congress and Exhibition Center. Founded in 1967 and operating as a public limited […]
69, mostly elderly, chronic patients died in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of new coronavirus infection related deaths in Hungary to 40,016. The number of cured cases rose to 1,147,818 and the number of active infected cases to 113,160. 3,382 new infections have been confirmed, bringing the total number of identified infections […]
Relations between countries and dialog between nations cannot be based on lies or denial of the truth. That is according to Hungarian President János Áder, who received the members of the diplomatic corps at the Palace of Arts (Müpa) Budapest Monday evening. At the traditional opening ceremony of the diplomatic event, the head of state […]
Inflation hit a 14-year high at the end of last year and the government is embarking on a massive cash giveaway ahead of the election. And the result is in: the majority of Hungarians expect retail prices to go out of control in 2022, according to a representative survey by Pulzus Research. Last November, consumer […]
In the last three days - from Friday to Sunday - 14,655 new cases of coronavirus have been identified, according to the epidemiological information page. This time, 167 new deaths were reported, including bringing the total number of victims to 39,947. According to the site, the number of people currently recovered is 1,145,770, while the […]
Legrand, a world leader in the manufacturing of products and systems for electrical installations and information networks in terms of sales, has been present in Hungary for close to three decades through its acquisition, in 1992, by way of a privatization deal of the Hungarian Kontakta company, which had been operating in Szentes, SE Hungary […]
BUX, the stock index of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) closed the first trading week of 2022 with a rise, closing at 5,956.74 points on Friday, up 2.44% on the previous week, or 1,236.03 points. The turnover of the stock market was HUF 52.44 billion, up from 24.88 billion in the previous four days of […]
The first four months of the year 2021 were still about to closing, but the last three months of the year have seen the turnover of the "peaceful" year 2019, so Budapest Spas Ltd. is very optimistic about this year. The net revenue of Budapest Spa and Thermal Baths Ltd. in 2021 exceeded the 2020 […]
Virus researcher Miklós Rusvai expects a lot of patients, but fewer hospitalizations and deaths in the fifth wave of the outbreak caused by the omicron variant, the business news site napi.hu writes. The number of infected people will be very high, the highest among the previous epidemic waves, with the number of patients per day […]
