In November 2024, 1.2 million guests spent 2.8 million tourism nights at tourist (commercial, private and other) accommodation establishments. The number of arrivals surpassed the previous year by 17% and that of tourism nights by 9.7%. The number of nights spent by domestic guests exceeded November 2023 by 3.8% and those spent by international guests […]
The market for passenger cars in Hungary showed a significant growth in 2024, with 121,607 such vehicles registered in the country in 2024, 13% more than in the previous year, the Hungarian Association of Motor Vehicle Importers (MGE) has told MTI. They noted that there has been an extraordinary growth in the electric car sector, […]
The value of export lessened by 3.5%, while that of import surpassed by 2.3% in EUR terms the same period of the previous year’s values in November 2024. The balance of the external trade in goods deteriorated by EUR 716 million, the Central Statistical Office reports. Compared to the previous month, the level of trade […]
Hungary has permanently lost EUR 1 billion (USD 1.03 billion) in European Union funds due to its failure to address corruption, marking an unprecedented move by EU authorities in Brussels. This decision represents the first enforcement of such measures in the bloc’s history. The European Commission announced Wednesday that Hungary had forfeited EUR 1 billion […]
The deficit of the general government sector in the third quarter of 2024 was HUF 621 billion, or 3.0% of GDP. The balance is HUF 133 billion, or 0.9 percentage point more favourable than a year earlier, the Central Statistical Office (KSH) reported this Friday. In the 3rd quarter of 2024 compared to the same […]
From January, Vodafone Hungary continues to operate under the name One Hungary Plc., the Vodafone HU mobile network is renamed One, and the Vodafone and Digi business networks are merged, the company 4iG told MTI on Thursday. In addition to the One brand, which previously covered Vodafone and Digi's residential and small business services, the […]
Five-time Olympic champion gymnast Ágnes Keleti, the Sportswoman of the Nation, Hungary's female athlete with the most Olympic medals, the world's oldest living five-time Olympic gold medalist and the oldest ever five-time Olympic gold medalist, passed away at the age of 103 years on Thursday morning. Ágnes Keleti – who would have celebrated her 104th […]
The year 2024 brought a recovery in the market for residential property for sale, partly due to lower lending rates and the additional subsidy for housing loans; according to last year's data and the current outlook, the housing market can expect to continue from momentum in 2025, according to ingatlan.com's own advertising data, MTI reported […]
Since February, domestic companies can apply for a subsidy of HUF 2.8-4 million per vehicle for the purchase of a pure electric car, van or minibus. More than two thirds of the EUR 30 billion budget was put out to tender last year, over half of it has been contracted and almost a fifth has […]
Trustify Investment Fund Management is providing funding for the development of a 40 megawatt solar park and related storage capacity in Kiskunhalas, the company's communications agency told MTI on Monday. According to the NEST Communications agency, the private equity fund management company is primarily looking for capital investment opportunities that focus on the production and […]
According to the empirical survey conducted by GKI Economic Research Co. with the support of the EU, the outlook for the business sector deteriorated further in December, but consumers became slightly more optimistic. GKI’s business climate index has been falling in small steps but essentially flat in the second half of this year, slipping to […]
Suzuki Motors' former chairman and CEO, Suzuki Osamu has died at the age of ninety-four, the Japanese automaker announced on Friday. The former Suzuki leader died on Wednesday of lymphoma, the company said in a statement. He joined Suzuki in 1958, a company founded by his wife's grandfather, and rose through the ranks to become […]
Hungary’s fiercely anti-immigration government is halving the number of guest worker permits to be issued in 2025. With an aging population and a reliance on labor-heavy industries, experts worry that the country may face a critical labor shortage. "Hungary belongs to Hungarians; it will neither become a guest worker country nor a migrant country," the […]
WABERER’S INTERNATIONAL Plc. has announced that it signed a sale and purchase agreement this Monday to acquire a 62.5% stake in GYSEV CARGO Plc. and committed to a further capital increase in GYSEV CARGO after the closing of the transaction – in the expected value of cca. HUF 2 billion – to develop the railway […]
Gránit Bank has carried out the largest public offering of shares in Hungary in the last 25 years, the founder and CEO of Gránit Bank Plc., Éva Hegedüs said on Monday after the bank's shares were launched on the standard category of the Budapest Stock Exchange (BSE) with a symbolic bell. Éva Hegedüs stressed that […]
