During an online award ceremony held this week, Budapest Airport honored airport partners who made outstanding contributions to the sustainability of the airport and of aviation over the past year, despite the negative impacts of the global pandemic on aviation. It is now more than five years since the airport operator launched the Greenairport program, […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Péter Szijjártó signed investment agreements worth HUF 14 billion in Switzerland earlier this week, the state news agency MTI reported. He said the Hungarian delegation reach agreements with three Swiss companies to partly expand their activities in Hungary and partly to enter the Hungarian market as new investors, creating […]
Every April since 1970, Earth Day reminds people of the need to find a way out of negative trends that threaten our environment, such as overexploitation of natural resources, drastic reductions in biodiversity, and the massive increase in non-recycled waste and greenhouse gas emissions. Rondo Hullámkartongyártó (‘Corrugated Cardboard Manufacturing’) Ltd. believes that the key to […]
Search statistics on the used cars website Használtautó.hu show that in the pandemic situation, more and more people are looking to buy a car. In addition to rising prices, there is an increasing interest in cheaper models. The domestic car fleet, which is on average 14.7 years old, can only be renewed – in part […]
According to a recent representative survey by Szallas.hu and Ipsos, a third of the Hungarian population is confident again that they can go on holiday. Further relaxation measures in the coming period and an increase in the number of vaccinated people could have a positive impact on travel uncertainty, including domestic tourism. While last year, […]
Due to the unusually cold weather, the bees have hardly flown out of the hives so far, and 50-60% of the acacia trees have frozen over, so there will be hardly any honey this spring, the president of the Hungarian National Beekeepers' Association Péter Bross told InfoRadio. It has been an extremely unfavorable spring for […]
Konkoly Observatory is the Astronomical Institute of the Research Center for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK), which belongs to the Eötvös Loránd Research Network, has announced that it joins Europe’s largest ground-based astronomy collaborative network. Two major collaborative networks for ground-based astronomy, one in the optical domain (OPTICON) and the other in the radio-wave domain […]
The European Parliament and of the Council on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs accepted the application for registration of ‘Budaörsi őszibarack’, a peach from Budaörs, a town just southwest of Budapest. According to the registry, the name ‘Budaörsi őszibarack’ may be used for peaches for fresh consumption of the local varieties Schafnose and […]
Following the last quarter of 2020, the volume of cargo handled at Ferenc Liszt International Airport increased further in the first quarter of 2021. The 39 529 tons of cargo handled from January to March means a 19.3% increase from the same period of the previous year, and is the strongest quarter in the history […]
Lili Horvát's romantic drama ‘Preparations to Be Together For an Unknown Period of Time’ won the Best Central-Eastern European Film Award at the 45th Cleveland International Film Festival. The jury of American film experts said Lili Horvát's film was a refreshing blend of Italo Calvino and Kieslowski's wit, an ambitious guide to the intricacies of […]
By Sunday, 205 people, mostly elderly and chronically ill, had died, bringing the total number of Hungarian deaths related to the new coronavirus infection to 25,184. On Saturday, the youngest victim was a 37-year-old woman with no known underlying illness. 3,706 new infections were reported in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of […]
Although Borsodi Brewery's results last year fell short of the previous, highly successful year, the company was able to retain all its employees despite the challenges caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the company told the Hungarian state news agency MTI. According to publicly available data, the net sales of Borsodi Brewery in 2019 were HUF […]
The Japanese Seiren company specializing in the manufacturing of automotive interior materials and textiles establishes its first European manufacturing unit in Hungary with an investment of more than EUR 42 million. With the investment – 30% of which is covered by Hungarian taxpayers' money –, the company is to create 170 jobs by 2022, and […]
The Hungarian Press Photo Competition and Exhibition has been the largest Hungarian review for the photojournalist profession for more than thirty years. This year’s winning works of 2020 photos were selected by the jury from 2,515 entries. Not surprisingly, the most covered theme in 2020 was the new coronavirus pandemic. In the 'News, event photo' […]
The sunflower-seed processing and refining plant of the Czech-owned NT Food Producing and Trading Ltd. is launching a capacity expansion investment in Kiskunfélegyháza, SE Hungary. As a result of the investment the company will process an annual quantity of 450,000 tons of sunflower-seed and will thereby be able to produce 210 million liters of sunflower […]
